<p>I too was selected as ELC this fall. Me and four friends at my school - all ELC - were guaranteed admission to UC Davis, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, and Merced. </p>
<p>Lanimer - UC San Diego did not guarantee admission to any ELC students entering the fall 2010 class. Rather, every ELC student I know, including myself, received a letter from UCSD encouraging us to apply based on our ELC status. </p>
<p>Along with UCSD, Cal, UCLA, and UCSC did not guarantee any students admission based solely on ELC status.</p>
<p>Perhaps your daughter was in some other way exceptionally qualified and was awarded early admission to UCSD.</p>
<p>No, it was definitely in the ELC letter that she received. A friend of hers also got the same letter and in fact committed to UCSD early. Again, I’m looking at her letter right now. Guaranteed admission to everywhere but Cal and UCLA.</p>
<p>^It’s because she’s more than ELC. ELC is for like top 4% of every high school in California - that’s a lot of people and not all that impressive. It might be based off of PSAT/NMSQT scores.</p>
<p>I’m new here, but saw this and wanted to reply to flutterfly_28, aspen1, and rider730. My daughter also received an ELC letter, as described by lanimer. Ours guaranteed admission to all UC schools with the exception of UCLA and Cal Berkeley. At the time we checked with college counseling (private school) and they confirmed that they were aware of the program and the fact that it did include all of the UC’s. The ELC’s are supposedly based on PSAT’s, as not all high schools release student rankings, so no other way to get the top 4%. </p>
<p>The ELC letter was very clear, and we then received emails and letters from all of the UC’s except UCLA and Cal. After filling out the UC application in November to UCSD, UCSC, UCD and UCSB, congratulatory letters were sent to us from the schools. I believe they were received in Dec/Jan. </p>
<p>I was an ELC student last year - I got guaranteed acceptance to every UC except San Diego, LA, and Cal. I got into all of them but I think for most people San Diego is not guaranteed either…at least not Fall 2009</p>
<p>The UC ELC Website [Students</a> and Parents Main Page](<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/sas/elc/parentstudent.html]Students”>http://www.ucop.edu/sas/elc/parentstudent.html) clearly states how the top 4% is calculated - it has noting to do with PSAT scores or how a HS ranks ( or does not rank) its students. The UC systems calculates it’s own UC GPA based on grades submitted by each school and determines the top 4% that way. Not all campuses that guarantee ELC admission guarantee all majors either. Plenty of past posts and discussion on this subject. Isn’t the ELC program changing next year anyway?</p>
<p>The ELC process changed this year. Also, my daughter’s school did not send any grades to the UC system before the ELC letter came to us. The letter came in October, long before any applications were sent in. (I did confirm with the school that they don’t rank themselves and they definitely did not send anything to the UC’s.) The College Counseling office said that they are not aware of any high schools that send senior grades to the UC’s at the end of the junior year or start of senior year.</p>
<p>Of course your daughter’s school sent grades to the UC system before you got the letter. How precisely do you think they were aware she qualified for ELC?</p>
<p>Yeah the situation was same for me when I was ELC in Fall of 09. I got notified by most UC campuses in October/November. But that’s because I remember signing some papers in July of that summer that allowed my high school to send UCs my transcript. My guidance counselors mailed those papers to all the seniors.</p>
<p>No, no grades were sent. I have confirmed this with the school–twice. It was PSAT scores. Also, to Cataysis, there was only one ELC letter sent out, then the individual schools sent out flyers. And no papers were sent to sign to release papers.</p>
<p>My business is that of an educator in the California college school system. So, the information I have given is extremely accurate.</p>
<p>Oh my, I’ve been just reading different things on this site all year, but I just had to reply to this. My son received ELC admission this year and I DID SIGN A FORM TO RELEASE HIS TRANSCRIPTS. I had to sign this form because he is under 18 and they needed a parent’s authorization. He received ELC admission to UCI, UCSB, UCD, UCR, UCSC. No ELC admission was given to UCSD, UCLA or UCB.</p>
<p>Perhaps this might help. It’s taken straight from the UC website on ELC. Note the sentence about transcripts…</p>
<p>Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC) is determined during the summer between the junior and senior years of high school. Students are notified of their eligibility in the fall semester of their senior year of high school before they apply to the University. To be eligible in the local context, a student must attend an eligible school that participates in the program, have his or her transcript submitted to UC with the high school’s ELC submission packet, satisfactorily complete a specific pattern of 11 UC-approved courses by the end of the junior year and be ranked in the top 4 percent of his or her high school class according to UC ELC evaluation rules. Students who are eligible in the local context must do the following to complete their eligibility and be admitted to the University:</p>
<pre><code>* Maintain a 3.0 GPA
Complete all coursework requirements for freshman admission by the end of senior year
Take two SAT Subject Tests and either the ACT Assessment plus Writing or the SAT Reasoning Test - no later than the December test date, and
Apply to the University by the November 30 application deadline
</code></pre>
<p>I was given ELC designation for 2010. The letter that I received did not say I would be guaranteed admission to all UCs, except CAL and UCLA. It merely states that I would be guaranteed a spot at a UC, but not necessarily one of my choice. Also, neither my parents nor I signed consent forms to release my grades to UC. I was not even aware of ELC until I received the letter in the mail.</p>
<p>My daughter rec’d the ELC letter a little over 2 weeks ago. They can’t be basing it on PSAT’s because she didn’t even take them. She just got her first individual college letter from UC Davis. I would love it if she got a postcard from UCSD…anybody else get that?</p>
<p>UCSD does not guarantee admission for ELC. You will not receive a postcard from them. ELC is not based on PSAT. Where did you hear that?? Just wondering… UCSD uses a point system for admission and they do give points for ELC (300 I think). Being ELC helps but it does not guarantee admission.</p>
<p>ELC got me into Davis as well as the other UCs much earlier. I was notified of my guaranteed admission months before the general decision was even released.</p>
<p>^^^ Right, but you still had to put your ELC number on your UC applications. </p>
<p>Viewfrom, I don’t know what the deal is with that. Did you get a number listing your special number for the application? MY son was ELC last year, and I think he got a letter with a specific number in the body of the letter that he put on his UC application.</p>
<p>Yes… I got a ELC letter a week or two ago (and a specific - You’re guaranteed at UCD letter this week) and the ELC number was in the thir or so paragraph of their letter.</p>