<p>Brenner, I don't have any "qualifications" per se. But I've been on this board for three years and have learned an awful lot in the process, did "total immersion" on college admissions for three years leading up to my D's application (typical obsessive Boomer parent in that regard), TheMom is a director-level employee at UCLA who doesn't work in admissions but tangetially gets a lot of UC-wide info, and one friend and one relative who work for high-profile private prep schools.</p>