<p>The qualifications for ELC has changed for the college of 2016. The percentage has raised from 4% to 9%, meaning that more high school students are ELC-eligible. The college class of 2015 had guaranteed admission to UCD, UCM, UCR, UCSB and UCSC, if ELC-eligible. That being said, more students are going to be ELC-eligible this year, will the schools that offered guaranteed admission last year going to offer it this year?</p>
<p>Note carefully that ELC compares your GPA to the historic top 9% GPA at your high school; it does not use your current class rank.</p>
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<p>So I’m being compared to previous classes. Ultimately, there is still going to be a greater number of ELC-eligible students, right?</p>
<p>Yes, although it is entirely possible that many of the added ELC applicants would have applied and been admitted anyway to the midlevel UCs even without ELC.</p>
<p>There will definitely be a much larger group of ELC candidates. You should also look at the pages on the UC Pathways site and applicable tables for eligibility on a statewide basis and you will discover that the minimum requirements to qualify that way have been raised significantly. That used to be designed to capture top 12% statewide and now only top 9%. If you do the test score conversion calculation you will find that minimum SAT score now needed for any particular level GPA is higher than what it used to be and the result will be be that a lot of applicants who could have met the minimum based on prior tables, will be automatically rejected this year.</p>