What do the UCs want from applicants?

[ucbalumnus]

@BatteryPower939

would argue the Cal States are even more unfair in admissions since they don’t use essays. Cal Poly accepts less than 5% of applicants for many engineering majors and have zero transparency on how they evaluate applicants.

Essays generally decrease transparency, since they are subjectively evaluated.

Of the Cal Polys, Humboldt is not impacted, so it admits at CSU baseline for all non impacted majors (meaning all except nursing). Pomona is impacted, but they publish the prior year thresholds, so it is reasonably transparent. San Luis Obispo seemingly avoids transparency even though they could be much more transparent than they are.