<p>Any current Cal students that were in ELC?</p>
<p>Or have experience with how less competitive Cal gets when you are ELC? (I know its competitive nonetheless, but how much does ELC help?)</p>
<p>According to the 2005 Booklet I saw last year, ~60% of ELC students are admitted, and overall ~25% are admitted.</p>
<p>I'm ELC and current Cal student.</p>
<p>Don't rely on ELC too much to get you in, considering you're competing with other ELCs as well.</p>
<p>I'm not ELC and I got into UCLA and Berkeley. Friends of mine were ELC and got into neither. People who tend to be ELC tend to be better students, take harder classes, do more outside of classes, ect. These people get in, in general, because of that, not the title. The title helps the strongest students at weak schools get into at least one UC.</p>
<p>I'm ELC and current EECS Cal student. Most of the more competitive majors at Cal are filled by ELC students. </p>
<p>Honestly, ELC doesn't really mean anything other than confirming that your grades are good. As always, grades need to be supplemented with good SATs and extra-circs.</p>
<p>Too bad ELC means absolutely nothing to an extent because it's dependent on GPA.</p>
<p>I got screwed over by some teachers in high school so I was like .01 away from the ELC cutoff.</p>
<p>But I got into EECS fine.</p>
<p>ELC means you're top 4% of your High School. </p>
<p>It takes into account the dificulty of your courses by counting all honors and AP courses without cap.</p>
<p>Someone with A's and no honors classes might not get ELC.</p>
<p>so elc doesn't really matter? i have a 4.45 and ranked 21/650~ but didnt get it. i think its because i didnt take 2 elective or VPA courses? will it affect my chances?</p>