My daughter’s high school has 20+ kids going to UCLA and Berkeley. The top 10 kids are NOT going to UCSD.
@VickiSoCal I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. If students with a 4.58 GPA and 34 ACT are not in the top 10% of their class, there is serious grade inflation happening. You mentioned that 20 students from your D’s school are going to UCLA and Berkeley, but that # does not necessarily include the entire top ten % of the graduating class ( size or class?). My HS is very competitive, with a high degree of grade deflation, and from my school only the top ten % were admitted to upper and mid tier UC’s.
There’s a difference between top 10 in class which @maminami mentioned and top 10% of class.
I’m saying the actual top ten kids in my daughter’s class are not going to UCSD. Not even on their radar.
It’s a public school with an IB magnet program with 85 grads in a 700 kid graduating class, so not all the IB kids are in the top 10% of the overall class.
@VickiSoCal … I am not saying the top 10 kids are going to ucsd from my son’s school . In fact, even my son has never even wanted to attend ucsd. I m the one that like ucsd somehow. I m just being curious to get on to blog.
I wonder if your daughter and my son are in the same HS … it sure sounds like they are the same with your description
@mamimami what is your son’s capped UC GPA? https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/
Also, make sure you aren’t confusing Eligibility in Local Context with class rank. http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/q-and-a/local/index.html
For what it is worth, neither the top 10 nor the top 10% at our high performing So Cal school are going to UCSD.
It’s pretty simple. UCB and UCLA typically accept 10-20% of students of any CA HS, yes competitive or not (so it’s actually better to be in a non-comp school, others being the same). UCSD accepts up to 30’ish%, including those also accepted to UCB and UCLA. Now Eng/CS majors are generally a lot more competitive than L&S majors so it’s likely that even if you are in the top 5% of your HS you still can’t get into UCLA/UCSD CSE (or UCB EECS for sure).
No way. UCB and UCLA are not accepting 70-140 kids at our very rigorous high school. more like 20.
The top 2-3% are vieing for spots at UCB/UCLA
The next tier, top 3-5% are UCSD/UCSB
Down at the 6 to 8% range (where my kid was) It’s Davis/Irvine
9%+ maybe Merced or Riverside.
This year at our school, the top 2% are going to either Stanford or Ivy League. Just below that, approx 3% are going to UCB and 3% are going to UCLA. Other top 10% students are going to Rice, Cal Tech, Emory, Northwestern, MIT, etc.
The overall acceptance rate for UCB/UCLA is like 15-20% (they kind of go for same kids). If your HS is way off/less then something is wrong with your school (like their SAT or GPA is way low or something). Top 3% for top privates is about right but UCB/LA should have a longer tail.
My kid’s high school has 80 IB kids per uear who apply through a magnet program application process. They are all very qualified if They make it all the way to the full diploma. They make up more than 10 percent of the graduating class. Of those 80 kids about 20 got in to LA or Berkeley. A kid ranked 50th in our class has a GPA around 4.5 and SATs of 1400 to 1450 or so based on the kid’s I know. They have a shot at Santa Barbara or San Diego but none in that range got in to higher ranked UCs that I know of.
@vikiSoCal … I think our kids are in a very similar HS profile.
@This is a load of crap… it is not like you said there is a serous grade inflation. You have to be in a very competitive school to understand it. In fact, it is just the reverse of what you said. A B-grade student in my son’s school can easily be an A-grade student in another less competitive schools.
This year, both UCLA and UCD indicated less than 6,000 students to their campus. UCLA has over 102k and ucsd has over 89k applications. So how do they have over 10% admission rate. UCLA has less than 6% and ucsd has less than 7% admission rate!!
** typos above…both Ucla abs ucsd indicated to take less than 6,000 students to their campus
@mamimami You mixed up acceptance rate and enrollment/yield rate. UCSD’s yield is probably just around 30% or even lower. UCLA/B is higher but still many accepted turned them down. Harvard might have the best yield among major U but even H gets turned down by some.