"The ELC program ensures that academically talented and deserving California resident students from all over the state have the opportunity to join us at UC.
ELC status adds value to the application and is one of the 14 factors considered when applications are reviewed. Additionally, ELC students not admitted to any of their campus choices are offered a spot at a UC campus that has space, if minimum UC requirements are met."
Basically all ELC does is ensure you a spot at a UC campus if you get rejected from other UCs that you applied to. That UC campus most likely being Merced, since it is the newest with the least applicants.
If you don’t qualify for ELC then you’re not disqualified for admission, you just simply don’t qualify for ELC.
OK, well I have a question. If UCR is, GPA and test score-wise, the least competitive of the UC’s that my son applied to, and he were not accepted, does that pretty much mean he won’t be accepted to any of them? Or is it possible that, with the holistic review that exists, with essays and such, that one of the other campuses might, for some reason, like him and accept him? I guess I’m wondering how significant this admission decision is. This may be a question for @Gumbymom
@jesse’sgirl cousin was denied from UCR and was accepted into UC Berkeley. It might have been because he was over qualified. We will never really know why though.
Yikes. I just thought of this!! This is from the UCSC thread. What if it’s something like this?!?!
“A - C beginning at 12:00 a.m.
D - G beginning at 1:00 a.m.
H - K beginning at 2:00 a.m.
L - N beginning at 3:00 a.m.
O - S beginning at 4:00 a.m.
T - Z beginning at 5:00 a.m.”
