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<p>Maybe it wasn’t clear from the post, but the cut is for next year, not this year.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>ProudUCLA-- sorry about my earlier post. It wasn’t really about your post, so much as just too many overly long posts everywhere I looked today. </p>
<p>Hope I didn’t hurt your feelings.</p>
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<p>First of, you probably have to unravel that 4.5 w gpa; second, it’d be helpful to know if that 4.5 is a gpa upon graduation. </p>
<p>Re, 2…we know grades submitted to UC are for soph and jr years. So w gpas haven’t most likely reached their ultimate level in these two years.</p>
<p>If gpa reported is upon completion of the student’s senior year, then w gpa can approach 5.0 and even equal it on occasion at a decent amount of high schools which have a lot of AP. We know that 5.0 isn’t a possible max for the vast majority of students, but their grades can still approach, 4.8-4.9 upon graduation, and these are relatively common. Those with > 4.0 w gpas is often a good portion of some very good schools.</p>
<p>Re, 1…so someone with a 4.5 with weights taken off could have “only” a 3.5 uw gpa. If this were the case, then the student could well be rejected from either Cal or UCLA and probably will be because he/she hasn’t attained his/her best at his/her native hs. This alone, despite this hypothetical student having scored a 2300, would be the cause of a denial, even with lofty near-perfect scores such as this. And we know that UC (more likely UCLA and Cal) isn’t (aren’t) a big proponent of SAT I scores (or high scores without the added component of high grades). This stuff about a-g UC gpa, weighted gpa, etc is nonsense. The admissions reader will look at it all.</p>
<p>Here’s an excellent high school in SoCal, PV Peninsula, that [url= <a href=“http://www.pvpusd.k12.ca.us/penhi/collegeacceptance/collegeacceptance2010.pdf]documents[/url”>http://www.pvpusd.k12.ca.us/penhi/collegeacceptance/collegeacceptance2010.pdf]documents[/url</a>] its students gpas, both w and u, SAT I’s, along with component scores, SAT II’s, ACT’s if taken, and EC’s; along with their applications to various c’s and u’s, acceptances and denials to them, and at which they eventually matriculate. You’ll see that UCLA, starting on page 64, and Cal, page 49, reject a lot of highly qualified people.</p>