<p>HYPSM bias? I think, as a whole, the UC system does not care about wealth, legacy status, or a family’s “prestige” in accepting students. UCs are meant for CA residents, and a large part of their unofficial goals is to accept those students that live in poverty and that have amazing life stories (battling cancer, supporting children, etc). Many impoverished students do not have the time or means necessary to cure cancer, raise funds for Nigeria, intern at their Senator dad’s office, etc and the UC system realizes this. Find me an argument that wealth does not help in SAT, ACT, GPA, and extracurriculars. UCs care more about stats and URMs- HYPSM cares more about extracurriculars such as saving the world (in addition to the HS transcript)- which predominately favors the wealthy. </p>
<p>PS, I’ll be attending UCLA next fall (even with my name)</p>