<p>You’re overestimating the UCs’ holistic admissions policies. The reason they have a lot of Pell students is because they use GPA primarily, not primarily holistic methods. </p>
<p>If the UCs truly used holistic methods, they wouldn’t have such high ORM numbers. </p>
<p>URMs make up nearly half of California’s graduating seniors, yet the UCs only have about 24% URMs.</p>