<p>Is this true?</p>
<p>Don't the UCs have a skewed preference for Calif. HS top 10% graduates, no matter how poorly they might otherwise stack up? See also, University of Texas.</p>
<p>yes, according to UCSD's Common Data Set (<a href="http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriweb/cds/)%5B/url%5D">http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriweb/cds/)</a>, 99% are in the top 10%. See section C10.</p>
<p>UC's follow two concepts : (a) if you are a resident in top 4% of your class you get an automatic admit to one of the UC's (but not necessarily one of your choice); (b) stated policy is to admit to the UC system (again not necessarily to a student's first choice) as many residents in the top 12% as possible.</p>
<p>Top 10% to almost every school in the nation means the top 10% of your specific high school graduation class. To the UC's, however, top 10% is the result of a calculation that includes several factors that attempts to compare students across the state on a normalized scale. Hence, top 10% to the UC's means something different than top 10% everwhere else, and the metric should not be compared to schools outside of the UC system.</p>
<p>You sure about that, rogracer? Where does it say that? Also, how different is it (as in significantly different, essentially the same . . .)?</p>
<p>yeh, rogracer, I'm not a california school expert, but i haven't heard about the re-ranking you mentioned above. many schools including the UCs will recalculate a GPA with courses and weightings that are important to them, but haven't heard the same about a rank, as I think you are implying.</p>
<p>BTW, here's how rank is reported in the Common Data Set (CDS):</p>
<p>Percent of all degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students who had high school class rank within each of the following ranges (report information for those students from whom you collected high school rank information).
Percent in top tenth of high school graduating class: 99%
Percent in top quarter of high school graduating class: 100%</p>
<p>Fom the above wording (& this format has been used for years by most universities), there is little room to report something other than what was reported by the high schools.</p>
<p>here's an active link to the CDS (the one above does not work)
<a href="http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriweb/cds/%5B/url%5D">http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriweb/cds/</a>
see section C for the admissions reporting.</p>
<p>Thanks Pap Chicken, but the link worked as long as you deleted the ) at the end of the link.</p>
<p>yes, i believe they compare the top 10% from each single high school. They would never compare 10% as a whole becuase the schools vary so much.</p>