UCLA parents: Student services cut

OlympicLady
Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:10:22 +0000

Ginka: Evidence of 4.5/ 2300 not getting in? You are right, UC does not keep tract of those numbers but the past 6 years in a top public High School district - one in east bay and one on the peninsula I see many such students not get into UCLA/UCB. Don’t worry they get in somewhere great- in one son’s year - Stanford, Brown, JHU, Swathmore to name a few- but yes many top stat students are turned down each year to CAL/UCLA. UCLA/UCB compares each student against others in the school they attend, and only takes say 10, usually 8 of those get admitted to both campus.

Not just a diatribe- actually experience year after year from two different top ranked school districts. How about this- 4.4 /1950 wait listed at Cal Poly SLO. Just happened at our school. Many 4.2+ also wait listed at UCSD and UCD. You don’t need to depend on statistics (which can be manipulated) to know a truth, one can experience it year after year and thus make a valid statement based on facts.

You must not have or had a kid apply to UC’s since 2007-2008- and if you did than I say your student was not attending a top rated school district, because theses are the facts for those high schools.