<p>is it true that some UCs give a lot of point if you are in top4% in yo school???
and is it still ture even if you are school is not so great???</p>
<p>i have 3.7~3.8 wgpa which is not so good and im in 6% and if i do really good i can possibly get in to top4%</p>
<p>The system is called Eligibility within Local Context. It's where a student at the top 4% of any California high school is guaranteed to be admitted into at least one UC school. Some UC will even say they'll automatically accept you if you apply to their school. However, the students cannot pick the school they want to be admitted to, just that they'll be admitted to at least one UC school.</p>
<p>oh ok and mostly likely that one school would be riverside or merced right?????</p>
<p>oh and thank you very much </p>
<p>i just watched pursuit of happyness and from now on i decided to say "thank you" a lot ;)</p>
<p>The ELC caveat simply means that if you're in the top 4%, you're guaranteed a spot at one of the UCs. You may not get to choose which, but you will get into one of them. This is generally how the selectivity goes:</p>
<p>UCB/UCLA
UCSD
UCI/UCSB/UCD
UCR/UCSC/UCM</p>
<p>If you make it in at one level, you'll probably make it in at the levels below it. But basically, if you're ELC, you will at LEAST get in at one of UCR/UCSC/UCM.</p>
<p>...it's <em>participating</em> CA high schools. that's most of them, btw, but some newer ones (e.g., some public charters) may not yet have accreditation, which is essential to a high school's participation in ELC. I mention it only because there are so many new charters in CA, in virtually every region.</p>
<p>You may not get <em>offers</em> of immediate acceptance into your favorite or desired UC campus, but that by no means prohibits an ELC student from applying to any & all campuses, and ELC will boost the candidate's application regardless of which campus applied to.</p>
<p>our school is over 50 years old...</p>