<p>It seems that there are lots of after school tutoring. The school is not good at teaching, more like good at testing. It's like you repeat a course, of course you should get A.</p>
<p>Columbia_Student:</p>
<p>Judging from your logic, I doubt you've attended any of these schools, especially MV or Lynbrook. It is NOT easy at all to get an A at these schools. The AP courses make the AP exams look like a joke. Because there are so many intelligent students at these schools, the standards are raised, otherwise everyone would be getting A's.</p>
<p>Sorry, I'm a parent. My D's school in one of the top 4 in CA, 69% asian. Most parents have tutoring. I know even for 2nd grade, students were taught 6th grade math so they can appear to be bright and get selected to GATE program. MV and Lynbrook rank far lower than D's high school.</p>
<p>You do know that a major criteria is how many students take the AP exams, not how well they do, right? These rankings don't mean much. </p>
<p>Yeah. MV and Lynbrook are also around 70% Asian as well and most have overbearing parents that force them to have tutoring, which makes it so tough at these schools.</p>
<p>I'm going to chime in and say grades at these schools are not easy to come by. I went to Monta Vista and graduated with a 3.2 unweighted (approx. 3.6 weighted). I had an F and multiple C's on my transcript, yet I was still admitted to UCLA as a freshman applicant, which makes me think that they must take HS difficulty into account. I'm currently in my 4th year here and have achieved above a 3.8 in biz-econ (including straight A's last year), and I definitely felt I was at an advantage because of my rigorous HS background</p>
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<p>There is no way this is close to accurate. My high school is right between several of these schools, and those numbers make no sense. Schools in the south bay have about 400 students per year. There is not a chance 200 kinds from Leland went to a UC. Perhaps this is the number of students who applied to a UC. Granted these are all the best schools in the South Bay.</p>
<p>thanks brandnew 2...that gives us hope...for some reason i never thought my mediocre gpa (3.5) matches my intellegence/scores...im glad ucla can see all hgihschools are not he same...and a rigorous hs prepares us for future success!</p>
<p>Oxypunk151: </p>
<p>You're misinformed. This is very close to accurate. Last year for the class of 2007, MV sent 273 students to the UC's. If you don't believe me, go to their school website and click the link that says "About Monta Vista" and then School Profile 2. These schools are definitely at the top.</p>
<p>mvsenior: </p>
<p>Not to discourage you, but brandnew2 went to MV 5 years ago. That makes a huge difference.</p>
<p>mvsenior, the numbers aren't for UCLA freshmen admits, but for total UC admits.</p>
<p>if those numbers were exclusively for UCLA freshmen admits, my school would have a 95% acceptance rate into UCLA (and taking into account those who didn't even bother applying to UC's, probably close to 100%).</p>
<p>personally, i wouldn't worry too much. if you have the scores and you have a solid statement, you're good. that's just the uc way. now if it were harvard, it would be a lot more unpredictible</p>