UCs and class rank?

epiphany
Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:40:32 +0000

<“I honestly don’t know where you got the idea that ELC was about recruiting top students from competitive high schools…” etc.>

I “got the idea” from a UC doc that I don’t happen to have in front of me at the moment. As a matter of fact, I stumbled upon that when investigating ELC, since I hadn’t heard of it before my D was contacted. I did some research about it, and also contacted the ELC office, etc. The specific rationale behind it was to improve the overall caliber of student that U.C. felt it was getting prior to the institution of ELC. In that document there was nothing about “getting kids from low-performing schools.” By implication, however, if the student was performing highly, but from a lower-performing school, UC was & is interested in recruiting such a student. It’s the higher performers they’re interested in: some would be from “competitive high schools,” some from not-so-competitive h.s’s.

I was told that there are a variety of reasons that a school would not be an ELC participant, & that would not be limited to accreditation vs. non-accreditation.

In response to a different replier… yes, the info I have is correct not because other people are “morons,” (you called yourself that, poster, not me), but because UC will reveal info to ELC families that they don’t reveal publicly. I’m sure the same differences occur with other situations, too – say, for example, recruitment for other reasons (athletics but other situations, as well).

There is information on other college websites, not to mention governmental websites, that, while not “lies,” per se, are part of the story, just not the full story.

kluge, regarding your last post (I think #15, or thereabouts), your statement is exactly correct.