Admission Stats from Los Angeles school

[justmytwocents]

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I brought up the “Tufts syndrome” effect in this thread because of student #38 in the OP’s data link. SAT 2130, 3.77/4.57 uw/w, Accepted UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCI but waitlisted at Davis. It is disturbing because UC assures students that each campus evaluates applicants independently of other campuses. It is hard to imagine a scenario in which a strong applicant is accepted to the 4 most selective UC campuses but waitlisted at a less selective campus unless there is some yield management involved. I know Davis has become more selective over the years (equal to Irvine), but they shouldn’t be passing on students acceptable to the top campuses.

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<p>We just can’t draw those kinds of conclusions without more information, which we don’t have.</p>

<p>First off, I have never heard of any CA public practicing so-called yield protection. Highly, highly doubtful that’s what happened.</p>

<p>Maybe the student never finished his/her application to UCD, so s/he was “denied” due to incompleteness? Maybe the student applied to a specific college major/department/division at UCD that was on “hold” due to budgetary cuts - or s/he was at the bottom of the pile for the X number of spaces available in that area?</p>

<p>So on and so on.</p>