My DD has 4.37 UC calculated gpa but not receive 9% status. Anyone know why? I think these is almost the maximum UC gpa, A in all 11 a-g courses with 8 ap or UC hL courses. I know she qualified statewide path, would the non 9% ranking hurt her chances to get into a good UC compared to kids from same high school? Appreciate any comments.
The Eligibility in the Local Context means that your child, when applying to UCs, is guaranteed a spot in a UC that has room if he or she does not get into any other UC. Right now, that school is Merced.
The ELC determines which of your child’s A-G courses taken in 10th and 11th grades, meets the requirements.
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/california-residents/local-path/index.html
If your child was missing any A-G courses before senior year, and/or had a smaller number of students in her class, then she might not be “ELC eligible”.
ELC just basically means she can go to Merced.
There is ELC eligibility by the local path (within her HS) and by statewide. As stated above it is possible to be statewide vs local (both son’s had this same scenario). Both received UC acceptances so did it not effect their chances.
As @“aunt bea” pointed out that UC Merced is the default campus so ELC is not a major factor although considered.
Wow! a 4.37 didn’t put her in the top 9% of her class. They must give out As like candy at her school.
As noted above, it won’t be a big factor in her admission.
Or they gave out A grades like candy in the previous classes that set the “top 9%” GPA benchmark for ELC?
Or the previous classes were unusually strong?
Or the high school did not submit previous classes’ grades to UC to determine the “top 9%” GPA benchmark?
Nobody seems to know and we were told to call UC admission office is probably the only way to find out.
My son was left off the ELC list that our district reported last year. It didn’t seem to make any difference, as he was admitted to the UCs to which he applied. He had the a-g requirements and was in the top 1-2% at the time they would have sent the ELC list.
(The only reason we found out he was off the list was that he didn’t receive an invitation to a UCLA event for ELC students that I saw mentioned here on CC.)
The only information we received was that “there was a computer error” in the district office. His HS counselor contacted the UC Office of the President, which said there is no way to add a name to the list after the deadline. But, they said that when the student completes the UC application, they are automatically reviewed for ELC and state context.
His counselor guessed that the glitch may have been related to him taking a number of dual enrollment classes on college campuses. But, that shouldn’t have made a difference for meeting the a-g requirements.
That’s my guess as well since my daughter does have some concurrent enrollment classes on a community college.