<p>Thread name was self-explanatory</p>
<p>Got insight?</p>
<p>Private schools, in general, actually do a more thorough evaluation of each candidate. Few have the number of applicants UCs do. They usually require two recommendations, they get the whole transcript, not just self reported grades, often talk to counselors and so on.</p>
<p>You do realize that the UC application review process is perhaps the most unthorough, succinct, a literally five minute job ever to grace the history of college admissions? </p>
<p>Your entire high school work, reviewed by complete strangers that glance over your application, deeming you worthy or not of the UC that you applied to...</p>
<p>Based on the private school information sessions I have attended, I have heard that private schools spend 20-30 minutes with each application. Can the UC readers possibly do that?</p>
<p>Private schools in many cases, due to their "holistic" (don't like that term, but it's useful) approach in evaluating applicants will often see aspects in a student's profile that big-system schools, who are usually much more numbers oriented, overlook. Because of this, the logical implication would be that private schools review apps at least as thoroughly as the UCs do and likely more carefully.</p>
<p>Jesus does...</p>
<p>UC schools do NOT read applications thoroughly in fact, by all accounts, they have essentially "criteria" like good SATs and GPA that, if you don't have, will get your application thrown out immediately. Look at the scatterplot data of acceptances for the UCs and you'll find that nearly all of their candidates fall above an unofficial "cut-off."</p>
<p>Private schools do a better more holistic job.</p>
<p>^ The UCs don't have an unofficial cut-off, they have an OFFICIAL cut-off. Unless they are "Eligible by Examination or by Exception," applicants must have a 3.0 UC gpa, all of the A-G courses, the SAT or ACT plus two SAT subject tests to be eligible to apply - even to the less-competetive UCs.</p>
<p>^ Oh, sorry tocollege I was unclear. I meant that if you look at the admissions data you can see a higher level "cut-off" for admissions to Berkeley and UCLA and the like. Meaning...mostly everyone who gets admitted has AT LEAST a certain SAT score and GPA.</p>
<p>yes mostly everyone. there are those outliers and you can be one of them!!</p>
<p>Schools with insanely high numbers of applications have to make a first cut based on an objective criteria (GPA;sat) for purely practical purposes.</p>