Yes. Our school is best to students. The school never prevents anything whatever students want. Our school is not top but sends caltech , MIT and Top 20 schools every year. This year , my son only got into Irvine with CS major but also some got into Irvine with different majors. Most 6 or 7 get into ucla and 3 get into ucb every year.
YL High School
No. I don’t know YL high school.
Anyone can find out exactly how many students of each CA high school are admitted to each UC and how many students actually enrolled ( up to 2 years ago).
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If you are from a school that admitted less than 3 for a school then the UC data shows zero for your school. My kids school is small has 100 per grade level. We know people got into Cal the past two years but the data shows none. It’s bc less than three applies/accepted or enrolled.
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Same thing happed to my son years ago, accepted: Cal & UCLA, but waitlited: UCD, UCI, UCSD. I think it’s likely yield protection, but some people believes “good fit” theory.
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I agree that everyone can “believe” what they want to believe regarding the unpredictability of the UC decisions but the bottom line is that each UC has their own specific criteria/institutional priorities of what they are looking for in the students they want to admit. In the end, students will end up where they are meant to be and most will thrive just like your student.
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You could see “0” in “large” school too . My kids’ school traditionally has less students admitted to UCI so it did show “0” for some years. If there is only one UC that show as “0”. You can use system wide total minus individual UC values to find out if the “0” is a true “0”, or 1, 2 or 3. Otherwise, the school could probably tell you if the student reported. In my kids school, they also publish which college the student is heading in the graduation program and the school new paper based on student’s report.
The “good fit” theory works perfectly for high school, I put my kids in the school that fit my housing budget.
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I don’t think I understand yield protection. the idea of top schools like UC Irvine, UC San Diego denying admissions because a student is over qualified and likely to choose another school, seems really odd and counter productive to the parties involved.
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IMO, a more likely explanation is that for students with top tier GPAs, no test scores, a full slate of good ECs, the only way to distinguish applicants is through their PIQs, and this is a highly subjective judgment, accounting for much of the “randomness” that people note about UC admissions.
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Adding to that is the fact that most people have read their child’s PIQ and A&A, but not those of the other student they are comparing their child to.
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Accepted 3/8/24
to alternate major: Social Ecology (1st choice major: Sociology)
UC Unweighted GPA: 3.86
UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.05
UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.11
ELC (top 9% CA HS): yes
Comments about course load (including senior year): 4 total APs: Spanish, Lang, Calc AB, Enviro Sci
Number of a-g courses: 24
Number of UC Approved Honors courses: 6
SUBJECTIVE::
Extracurriculars: 4 years ASB/class officer, travel softball, 3 years school softball team (1 yr varsity), 2 years yearbook
Job/Work Experience: dog sitting, current job at a restaurant in lieu of softball
Volunteer/Community service: minimal
DEMOGRAPHICS::
State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): in state - Sacramento County
Other acceptances/waitlists/denials:
Accepted: Cal Poly, SDSU, CSULB, CSUF, SJSU, CPP, LMU, Chapman, St. Mary’s, UCR
Waitlisted: U of San Diego, UCD
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S24 Accepted Last week
Major: Urban Studies
UC Unweighted GPA: 3.94
UC Capped Weighted GPA: 4.30
UC Fully Weighted GPA: 4.60
ELC (top 9% CA HS):
Comments about course load (including senior year): 4 total APs, many honors courses
Number of a-g courses:
Number of UC Approved Honors courses:
SUBJECTIVE::
Extracurriculars: baseball team 4 years
Job/Work Experience: summer job
Volunteer/Community service: minimal
DEMOGRAPHICS::
State/location of HS (if domestic applicant): in state - L.A. County
Other acceptances/waitlists/denials:
Accepted: UC Davis, SDSU, CSULB, CSUN, Arizona, Denver, Alabama
Waitlisted: None
Denials: None
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Move on .
I do not agree that UCs yield protect but the acceptance pattern can seem random. However, other schools certainly do as they do not want to be students safety schools.
Not random but school specific. There is a method to the admission madness.
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I would be surprised if any public school yield protected. I think it is silly, but it is restricted to some private schools.
Indeed.
I did a simple analysis of 2022 UC admissions data. From what I see there is no evidence that any of the UCs did yield protection.
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It’s simple incentives, for public universities it is a political liability to become more and more selective, because the more selective they become, the more they deviate from their organizational mission. Private universities have very different incentives. They need to fill their classes, yet maintain selectivity because selectivity is used by many as a proxy for desirability/quality.
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