<p>I submitted my UC applications more than a week ago. I should feel good about this, but when I checked my application status I found this message:</p>
<p>"After reviewing your academic record, we have determined that you are not in the top 9 percent of students at your high school according to UC calculations. "</p>
<p>Followed by condescending comments about how I shouldn't give up hope because I may still qualify in the Statewide pool.</p>
<p>My UC GPA is 3.8, so I don't understand how they can already know that I am not in the top 9 percent at my high school. The application didn't ask anything about class rank, how do they know this already when the deadline for applications is still 3 days away? I did great on all the standardized tests, but the fact that they seem to have already sorted me into the dung heap has me getting depressed.</p>
<p>They did not reject you. Does it say anywhere ‘sorry but you have been rejected’?’ It just means you don’t qualify for that thing they do if you’re in top 10% of your class you will get guaranteed admission to some UC.</p>
<p>Your school probably sent them that information, or the UC has a system where they can check your grades with the rest of your classmates.</p>
<p>3.8 gpas have a good chance in all UCs, I wouldn’t worry too much.</p>
<p>That message is simply stating that, based on the information submitted by your California high school during the summer of 2011, you do not qualify for ELC. ELC is only one type of UC eligibility, with statewide eligibility being the type under which most students qualify (eligibility by examination and eligibility by exception are two other types).</p>
<p>If you did not attend a California high school, then by default you are not eligible for ELC.</p>
<p>If you do not know what ELC is, then you did not do a great deal of research before applying to the UC. There is no problem with not doing a great deal of research, except that it makes you look foolish when you post an uniformed rant.</p>
<p>Of course I know what ELC is, and of course I know that I am eligible in the state context because I know how to use the handy toggle tool that tells me as much. </p>
<p>What I didn’t expect was to be “sorted” before the application deadline has even passed. ELC has a huge advantage over “Welcome to Merced” state wide eligibility. My counselor had told me that, based on current enrollment, I am in the top 9% at our school. So if they are using information from the summer of 2011 that is news to me. </p>
<p>I am finished with applications, good luck with your condescending replies to stressed out students.</p>
<p>It seems you interpret any comments that do not agree with you to be condescending, whether they come from the UC website or from an anonymous college confidential poster.</p>
<p>Yes, you are “sorted” long before the application deadline passes because your rank is not determined by the number of students from your high school who apply to the UC, it is determined by all the students at your high school whether they apply to a UC campus or not. And of course you are now aware that that message does not mean that you are rejected, as you stated in the title of your post.</p>
<p>Congratulations on doing well on your standardized tests - as I am sure you already know (based on your expert toggle use), the results of your standardized tests are not a part of the ELC selection process and so have no bearing on whether you are designated as ELC, so good test scores become very important for those with statewide eligibility.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your warm good wishes on my continued success as a college confidential poster! How kind of you.</p>