<p>I'm qualified in the ELC and fulfilled all the requirements. I know that I'm guaranteed admission at a UC campus. So, if I apply to all the UC's, there's a chance that I might not get into the UCLA campus, but if I only apply to the UCLA campus, I would be automatically admitted, right? Or will they send me to a worse campus even I never apply there?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>It doesn’t work that way. UCLA does not guarantee anybody’s admission via ELC, I believe. They have enough people applying as it is.</p>
<p>I think the catch is you must apply to like 3 or 4 UCs in order to have that guarantee. And if you qualified for ELC in the first place you’re pretty much a shoe in for the UC with the higher admissions rate within that group you chose. For example, if you applied UCLA, UCI, Cal and UCSB and you happen to be ELC but get denied from the first three, you get UCSB. </p>
<p>Something like that. The only perk I found with the program was that some UC’s send out guaranteed acceptances in the Fall of Senior year so you dont have to stress out so much waiting.</p>
<p>ELC guarantees you for <em>one</em> UC school, whether or not you apply to it. (You do have have to apply to take up their guarantee of course.) </p>
<p>"students who attain eligibility in the statewide context or eligibility in the local context are both guaranteed **a space at the University of California, though not necessarily the campus or major of choice. "
<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/sas/elc/eligibilityinfo.html[/url]”>http://www.ucop.edu/sas/elc/eligibilityinfo.html</a></p>
<p>Say you apply to Cal, UCLA, UCSD, and UCI. But you’re guaranteed only at Davis. Well, you could actually get rejected from the four. Too bad. (Normally the school you’re guaranteed for tells you before or during application time. In the case of my friend, Riverside reached her after she submitted her application -with a fee waiver for4 schools- and so they agreed to pay for an application to UCR.)</p>
<p>As far as I know, UCLA, Berkeley, and maybe SD does not offer ELC admission.</p>
<p>^ SD does. So it’s probably just those two then.</p>
<p>Here’s how it works–every UC campus that you apply to reviews your application. After the decision process, a “higher-up” committee looks at the results of all the ELC apps. If they find an ELC applicant who was rejected by all the UC schools that he/she applied to, then they let him/her into either Merced or Davis.</p>
<p>Note: Certain campuses, such as Merced, accept EVERYONE who is ELC, but there’s no way you can expect that of a place like UCLA or Berkeley.</p>
<p>^ I’d really like to know where you got that information, I never heard it described as the way you just wrote it.</p>
<p>^ It’s part of the “guarantee you get into a UC” thing. Your app may get deferred to Merced and/or Riverside if you don’t get into any of the UCs you applied to.</p>
<p>But where does it say that? Link?</p>
<p>Last year people that were not accepted to any of the UC’s that they applied, we offered to apply (with a fee waiver) to UCR and UCM via e-mail. Had friends that got the e-mail and saw it on these boards. ELC students were accepted to UCD, UCSB and UCI guaranteed, UCD and UCI sent letters prior to the admission cycle ending and UCSB web-site posted that all ELC were accepted. In addition, UCM and UCSD sent letters to “please apply” but they were NOT guaranteed admission. Of course you do have a better than average chance at UCLA, Cal, and a much better than average chance at UCSD. However, the best advice would be to check each schools admission web-site because things are always changing, especially next year. The advice on these CC is often very good, but with the UC and CSU financial situation, some information will be different from the last couple of years. Also look at the link silvercross posted for ELC. It is very helpful.</p>
<p>I see, interesting. So I guess ELC is in some sense a false security given to the applicants.</p>
<p>No… it says what it is… a guarantee, although not always to your school of choice. IT GUARANTEES YOU UC ACCEPTANCE, NOT UCLA or UCB ACCEPTANCE, but UC ACCEPTANCE.</p>
<p>I got mail from a couple UC’s (or maybe one was a CSU) saying that I would definitely get admitted if I applied.</p>
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<p>No, it’s not false. You are guaranteed a place at one of the UC’s. If you thought you would be guaranteed a place at somewhere you choose or if you thought you could somehow game the system, you were mistaken (in a somewhat original way).</p>
<p>ELC links:
<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/local_eligibility.html[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/local_eligibility.html</a>
[Welcome</a> to ELC](<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/sas/elc/]Welcome”>http://www.ucop.edu/sas/elc/)</p>
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Incorrect. If you apply only to UCLA and are not admitted, as an ELC applicant you would then be put in the referral pool for a place at a campus that still has space. That campus is usually Merced or Riverside. Your best bet is to apply to at least one campus offering the guarantee that you would like to attend. Each campus evaluates you independantly and does not base admission on your acceptance/rejection at other campuses. This year’s guaranteed campuses have not been released yet as far as I know, but last year they were UCM, UCSB, UCR, UCI and UCD. UCSD did not guarantee, but gave preference to ELC applicants.</p>
<p>Quick and dirty explanation: So you only apply to UCLA. You get rejected by UCLA, so Merced offers you admission.</p>
<p>I posted this on another site but since I have it now, here is the ELC and statewide admissions statistics from UC Pathways Stat Finder for all UC’s. 2008 is the latest info available for ELC and qualified statewide.<br>
[University</a> of California: StatFinder](<a href=“http://statfinder.ucop.edu/statfinder/drawtable.aspx?track=1]University”>http://statfinder.ucop.edu/statfinder/drawtable.aspx?track=1)</p>