<p>Yup, awakenedream is right. m3ssi, I don't think it's legal for your school to automatically send in your grades.</p>
<p>yea theres no cut off for ELC because i had a 3.96 UC GPA but i still got ELC</p>
<p>what im trying to figure out is how important having one is. did anyone with ELC and 4.0UW get rejected from UCLA</p>
<p>i'm ELC and my UW was around 3.9 and i got accepted to UCLA</p>
<p>well, from reading the UC info booklet... for the big UCs, Berkely and LA, ELC helps ur chances. normally, tey accepte 23-28% of students.. or seomthing, but ters another percentage for ELC acceptences, whih is around 50 something % for UCLA and 60 something % for Berkely. i dont have teh book with me. So i guess, ELC helps.. but it's not guarteed. Heck, the number 3 ranked person at my school got rejected from UCLA while no. 9 and other ppl wiht lower grades, including several non ELCs got in. It's just something that helps. It also grants you guarteed admission to several less presitgous UCs. UCI, UCR, and UCSC and UCM have 99.9 or 99.8 ELC acceptences. In fact, UCI and UCM send u mail telling you, tey're prepared to accept you if you're ELC.</p>
<p>ucapplicant05 ... hheh intersting.. the legality of it.. .. o welps.. it's not as if its a bad thing tey sent my grades to be confirmed as ELC.</p>
<p>ELC is used as compensation for grade inflation from school to school. Since the UC system doesn't use class rank in admissions, some schools have simply made it very easy to attain a high GPA so more of its students can attend UC. These "feeder schools" often see the entire top 10% of their class with 4.2+ uc GPAs. Presumably, a kid from a small school who is valedictorian but has a 4.1 GPA (from a lack of AP courses offered at the school or whatnot) would find him or herself behind those 30 or so students from the feeder school in terms of UC admission. </p>
<p>What ELC does is makes sure that the academic standings of the applicants are put in proper context, and serves as a check so that the above situation doesn't happen. Obviously, a class valedictorian at one school is more deserving than a 3.6uw/4.2uc kid from a feeder who's ranked 34th in their class (given similar test scores, of course), and ELC makes sure this is the case. UCSD and UCD both place a .3 grade point value on ELC (presumably it is similarly weighed at the other schools as well), meaning that the 4.1 valedictorian from the small school would be adjusted to being the equivalent of a 4.4 kid at the feeder school.</p>
<p>Generally, ELC only has a noticable impact on UCB and UCLA admissions, and UCSD to a much lesser extent. It might be one reason why at these two schools some 1200 SAT'ers are getting accepted over 1400+ scores.</p>
<p>I suppose ELC may help if you're borderline... Still waiting for Berkeley's letter...3 more days!! We'll see if ELC was a deciding factor for me. It's kind of bad on my part to not submit a consent form when I qualify for ELC status...</p>