<p>I know of two top students who graduated from one of the best PHS’s in our district, LAUSD. Both girls were maxed out on AP classes, one with a music hook, both with awesome EC’s and top 1% SAT’s in the state. They are devastated that they were rejected from their top choices. Their only admittances were to the UC’s, including Berkeley. They spent the last four years busting their rears to fulfill their dreams of going east to college, and were completely derailed. In their group of very studious white girls, not a single one got into her top choices. Both parents are regretting their choices to stay in public. On the other hand, my niece from Webb, a friend of both girls, got into all her choices except one, waitlisted at Brown.</p>