UCs and class rank?

kluge
Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:06:48 +0000

California high schools send the grades of all juniors who may be in the top 4% at the school and therefore eligible in the local context (ELC) for admission to UC the summer between junior and senior years, to allow UC to determine which students qualify under ELC. I assume that each school sends transcripts of every student who might conceivably qualify, as the ELC gpa is calculated differently than the UC/CSU gpa and just about every other gpa you could imagine. So from that data UC has the ability to determine fairly accurately what a given gpa at a given high school corresponds to in terms of class rank - at least in terms of top 10% or so…