<p>From my counselor, I've heard that ELC notification is done via the UC apps online this year, but I don't know where to find it. Any of you find out how to get that information?</p>
<p>Can your counselor tell you what the ELC threshold UC admissions GPA for your school is? Then you tell whether you should get ELC notification.</p>
<p>Do all schools in CA have ELC? I have never heard of it through my D’s school…is it based on some criteria of the surrounding area?</p>
<p>Many (not all) high schools in CA participate in ELC. The high school uses its own grading criteria and send its top 15% class of seniors to the UCs (this top 15% may use freshman year grades as well, or really whatever the high school chooses). Then, the UCs look at this top 15% and use their own curriculum (10-11th, weighted a-g courses) to determine the top 9%. These top 9% (maybe 8%, not sure) are guaranteed admittance to at least one UC college(they choose). It also looks great on the application as well.</p>
<p>Talk to a school counselor to see if they know anything about it</p>
<p>The ELC GPA threshold is based on the historic top 9% UC admissions GPA of the high school. You are not competing with your current classmates; you are trying to beat a threshold set by the previous classes at your high school.</p>
<p>My daughter received a congratulatory letter today saying she had been submitted in the top 15% and that “If after you apply to UC we determine that you are in the top 9 percent of your class, you will be designated ELC”. So does this mean she won’t find out unless she applies? Or is she only in the top 15%? My son was designated two years ago as being in the top 4% for ELC but they told him before he applied. This seems different.</p>
<p>^it is different this this year. From the top 15% of students, only the students that apply are going to be considered.</p>