<p>mini,
Cite all the websites you want. There is no question that there are certain rubrics. Whether those rubrics are always followed, is another matter. This is not unlike what curmudgeon or someone else said about the drill that is repeated (& sworn to) regarding 100% of need met, etc., at rep hosting mtgs. And I'm sure theese reps can state that because it probably similarly on their "official" literature.</p>
<p>Lots of people seem unwilling to believe what they cannot read on a website. That is not a personal criticism of you; it's just definitely a trend I've noticed, especially on CC. I do not think that this is more true for the UC system, btw, (i.e., getting around the official rubric) than it is for private schools.</p>
<p>As you know, an average is the result of a mathematical calculation; that is all it is; it is by no means an indicator of any particular student's record. I'm sure there are averages at HYP even among non-hooked applicants that are also not in line with a particular profile of a student who may be way off target from that average. </p>
<p>The student in question was nowhere near a 1350 SAT I, nor a 4.2 UC GPA, yet the student was admitted to a top UC campus <em>this year</em>, not before '02.</p>
<p>Really, in order to see what it takes to be considered "capable of doing UC work," one needs to look at the full range of accepted scores, the full range of accepted GPA's. Naturally the administration would consider this info confidential, so it could only be self-reported and/OR reported via Naviance or some other publicly accessible statistical measure. I have access to the actual statistics, so this is not guessing on my part.</p>