<p>On the New York Times blog ("The Choice") appears the following reader comment:</p>
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A few years ago, the U of California published a table, with SAT scores in one column and high school grades in another. You connected yours with a straight edge and read your admit/non-admit status from a third column in the middle.
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<p>That is, some linear function of SAT and GPA, (or a linear function of some nonlinearly-rescaled versions of the SAT and GPA) was a published admissions predictor, though not an explicit guarantee of admission. </p>
<p>I also recall an old Berkeley application brochure with a point system out of 8000 and remarks that above a certain score (say, 6500 or 7000) an applicant would usually be admitted and above some higher score (say, 7500) one would be a candidate for Regents' scholarships. This was different from the UC Eligibility Index that is still in use, and the name was also different, something like "admissions score" or "admissions index" -- it pertained directly to admission, not qualification to be considered for admission.</p>
<p>Does anyone here have more specific information about a do-it-yourself admissions prediction table as in the NY Times comment, or the 8000-point system?</p>
<p>Thanks for any leads.</p>
<p>Berkeley has higher standards than the other Universities of California. Irvine accepted 60% of applicants. UCLA was a percentage or two higher than Berkeley. Berkeley only accepted 23%.</p>
<p>As I mentioned, the material I read about point scores out of 8000, with most of the components calculable before applying and with certain thresholds indicating likely admission or admission-with-scholarship, was for Berkeley only, and not the UC’s in general. </p>
<p>I have also been informed by the parent of a CA in-state applicant that as of a few years ago, there were similar calculate-it-yourself admissions prediction formulas on several of the UC web sites, with the formula varying between campuses, and most of the points (coming from grades, test scores, etc) calculable by the applicant. This was, as far as I understood the parent’s comment, a prediction of admission to each particular campus, not the UC Eligibility Index and not “admission to the UC system”.</p>
<p>berkeley doesn’t have a point system like ucsd or uc davis.</p>
<p>That may be the case currently, but the NY Times blog referred to a few years ago, and the Berkeley forms that I saw (with the 8000 points) were from more than a few years ago. Here is some information I received about the history from a CA resident:</p>
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<li><p>A/the “point system … used to be posted on the admissions page of virtually every campus. Then eventually (more recently), individual campuses were removed gradually … .”</p></li>
<li><p>“In 2008 it was still up there for UCLA. [Applicant] was able to calculate … [his/her] cumulative points, … Berkeley’s used to be posted, but I noticed that by that same admissions year [2008] it was gone, whereas it was visible [in 2005]. … UCLA’s may still be up there, and some other campuses are, too.”</p></li>
<li><p>“The point system has been controversial at Berkeley, especially recently, which may be one reason for its sudden disappearance.”</p></li>
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<p>Again, thanks for any leads to further information.</p>