<p>I qualified for the ELC program. I've been garanteed a spot in the UC system, but not necessarily my first choice. Do ELC students usually get their first choice? If not, are they given their second? How does UCLA handle ELC students?</p>
<p>I heard somewhere (don't recall where), that UCLA chances are 60% and Berkley 50% or vice versa. Anyways you have a good chance, but by no means consider yourself in/</p>
<p>Fifth post has ELC info and all the %s for ELC at each campus.</p>
<p>Wow, it's actually the "vice versa" of what Smart1st said:
UCLA's ELC admission chances are ~50% while UCB's ELC admission chances are ~60%. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>ya, knew it was either or. Anyway I dont think ELC matters its just that students achieved at such high standards in california have a better shot</p>
<p>ELC students have a higher acceptance rate than regular students overall into the UC campuses. yes there is a correlation, but is there a causation? that's hard to say. it could be that the ELC students were so good anyway that they got admitted instead of the UC campus saying "oh s/he is an ELC student, let's give him/her a boost."</p>
<p>ELC just means you're in the top percent of your high school- its solely about ranks, nothing more and nothing less. Most people in the top percent of their high school will make it into UCB, UCLA, UCSD. It makes sense.</p>
<p>Don't jump to crazy conclusions based on numbers or start some wild conspiracy theories like only applying to those 3 UCs w/ ELC will guarantee you a spot in one of them. Now that does not make any sense. UCLA and Cal admission chances aren't 50-60% because they're in ELC, the numbers only mean that it just so happens that 50-60% of those admitted are in the top percent of their high school class. There are a ton of people in ELC (in my class of about 700, there were at least 70 kids who made ELC and most of them ended up at UCR). ELC guarantees you admission at either UCR, UCSB, UCM, or UCD. Never before have I ever heard of a person guaranteed to UCLA or UCB or UCSD through ELC. </p>
<p>So to answer the OP, ELC students get their first or second choice only if its those listed above. UCLA probably just overlooks the ELC designation (especially since only about half of those admitted were in ELC).</p>
<p>how do they choose ELC?
at my school, 3 kids (out of our class of 76) got chosen for ELC (including myself). however, they didn't simply use the top 3 ranked students... our valedictorian didn't even get it. does anyone know how they choose it? i didn't even turn in an application or release form; i just received a letter in the mail one day.</p>
<p>So its actually up to the schools. Apparently, special ED students, as well as ESL students can be selected into ELC. No wonder only about 50% of the students selected for ELC make it into Cal and LA. Also, if you never turned in a release form, your school has no authorization to give the UCs your information (<a href="http://www.ucop.edu/sas/elc/parentauthinfo.html#pauth%5B/url%5D">http://www.ucop.edu/sas/elc/parentauthinfo.html#pauth</a>) nor would the UCs have even considered you for it, so your parents most likely filled it out and mailed it in w/o your notification.</p>
<p>haha no, i talked to my mom and she didn't send one in. toward the end of my junior year, a bunch of kids were called down to send in release forms, but i wasn't one of them! but... but the time senior year rolled around, i was selected as ELC. oh well, not that i mind! : ) </p>
<p>thanks for the info, jyancy!</p>
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<p>It's actually R, SB, M, and I.</p>
<p>And on the whole, I agree with much of what you said, with the exception of the idea that UCLA (or UCB) would simply ignore ELC altogether. One of the essential reasons the UC started ELC several years ago was to indicate clearly to its campuses where students fall in the context of their high schools. The purpose was to reward students at the top of low-performing schools. Thus, while LA and Berkeley may have to deny room to a larger number of its ELC applicants by virtue of their desire (and ability) to create a better freshman class, I would not go as far as saying they do not take ELC into account at all.</p>
<p>haha. good thing i totally didn't even end up applying to any of the schools ELC "gaurantees" you admission to.</p>
<p>sarah:</p>
<p>elc is top 4% of each participating HS class. If you have 76 kids, then it would be 3 kids plus ties. The students are ranked by UC gpa, which means only Soph/Jr years, and bonus points for UC-approved honors/AP/IB courses. Thus, a 4.0 uw student taking only college prep courses may not be elc, whereas a 3.9 uw who is taking all honors/AP could be.</p>
<p>hmm. yeah i guess that makes sense.
i know that our valedictorian is valedictorian because of how many college courses he has taken.... its just funny because at the end of last year, i was ranked 12th in our class (about the 5th highest GPA, we just had ties). thanks for your help, bluebayou!</p>
<p>sarah:</p>
<p>the UC's will factor in college courses (plus bonus point) only if they are listed on the HS transcript, or if your GC sends them in.</p>
<p>oh, i see. I wonder if my GC didn't send them in for him. Are there any other factors the UC's consider besides GPA and test scores? </p>
<p>(although my GPA was on the low end, my SAT was highest in the school.. is that the only thing that brought me up?)</p>
<p>for elc, it is ALL gpa in UC-approved 'a-g' classes, no test scores considered.</p>
<p>And there's no cap in the calculation for bonus points for honors courses with ELC.</p>
<p>okay thats definitely weird. how on earth did i get it then? haha</p>
<p>so elc is based on GPA, nothing else?</p>