UC college admits from the Big3

[Anonymous]

if your kid or any you know were admitted to Cal, UCLA, etc from a Big3, what do you think put them over the edge?
I know these are hard admits under the private school paradigm of few APs, etc,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if your kid or any you know were admitted to Cal, UCLA, etc from a Big3, what do you think put them over the edge?
I know these are hard admits under the private school paradigm of few APs, etc,

No interest in those schools - too large and run as very public institutions

[Anonymous]

Why does your want to go to a uc school? And there’s a vast difference between Berkeley/ucla and Santa Cruz or riverside.

[Anonymous]

And what are the big3?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if your kid or any you know were admitted to Cal, UCLA, etc from a Big3, what do you think put them over the edge?
I know these are hard admits under the private school paradigm of few APs, etc,

Very few apply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if your kid or any you know were admitted to Cal, UCLA, etc from a Big3, what do you think put them over the edge?
I know these are hard admits under the private school paradigm of few APs, etc,

I don’t know any students at my children’s school (Sidwell) who talk about attending a UC. I’m sure there are some, it just hasn’t reached my ears. Generally speaking, I don’t think state schools are popular among Sidwell kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if your kid or any you know were admitted to Cal, UCLA, etc from a Big3, what do you think put them over the edge?
I know these are hard admits under the private school paradigm of few APs, etc,

Very few apply.

Just to follow up, out of state tuition at the UC’s is basically the equivalent of a private university. Most families decide if they are going to pay that much, might as well get the smaller classes, better advising, nicer facilities, etc . . at a private university.

[Anonymous]

Zero applicants from our school this year.

[Anonymous]

I'm the OP. My kid wants to attend school in California and has grades that seem to be strong for UC admissions (lots of A minuses but no Bs--so a 4.0 under the UC GPA calculation) so in theory will be a stronger applicant under this grading paradigm than for many private universities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if your kid or any you know were admitted to Cal, UCLA, etc from a Big3, what do you think put them over the edge?
I know these are hard admits under the private school paradigm of few APs, etc,

I don’t know any students at my children’s school (Sidwell) who talk about attending a UC. I’m sure there are some, it just hasn’t reached my ears. Generally speaking, I don’t think state schools are popular among Sidwell kids.

Sidwell do students apply to UC schools. The ones we knew who were accepted to UCLA/Cal were usually also accepted to Ivy type schools or had other hooks (able to include in essays about family heritage). Other high stats students were rejected/WL from Cal/UCLA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the OP. My kid wants to attend school in California and has grades that seem to be strong for UC admissions (lots of A minuses but no Bs--so a 4.0 under the UC GPA calculation) so in theory will be a stronger applicant under this grading paradigm than for many private universities.

If your child attends a Big 3, they are also a strong candidate for USC with those grades. Stanford is a reach for most, so they may as well try. Pepperdine and Oxy are good safeties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the OP. My kid wants to attend school in California and has grades that seem to be strong for UC admissions (lots of A minuses but no Bs--so a 4.0 under the UC GPA calculation) so in theory will be a stronger applicant under this grading paradigm than for many private universities.

If your child attends a Big 3, they are also a strong candidate for USC with those grades. Stanford is a reach for most, so they may as well try. Pepperdine and Oxy are good safeties.

yes, my kid is at the Big3. Lots of A minus grades, no Bs of any type. Rising senior, high rigor. Thought that UC schools might be good as they don't calculate minuses, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if your kid or any you know were admitted to Cal, UCLA, etc from a Big3, what do you think put them over the edge?
I know these are hard admits under the private school paradigm of few APs, etc,

I don’t know any students at my children’s school (Sidwell) who talk about attending a UC. I’m sure there are some, it just hasn’t reached my ears. Generally speaking, I don’t think state schools are popular among Sidwell kids.

My son applied from Sidwell a couple of cycles ago. Denied. The problem is that a Sidwell GPA will never cut it in a sea of 4.8888888s, and GPA is literally the only thing UCs screen for now. That, and I think poverty.

Michigan, Virginia and Wisconsin "get" the Sidwell situation. UCs and Texas do not. So, Ann Arbor is a more reliable admit than UC Santa Barbara, oddly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the OP. My kid wants to attend school in California and has grades that seem to be strong for UC admissions (lots of A minuses but no Bs--so a 4.0 under the UC GPA calculation) so in theory will be a stronger applicant under this grading paradigm than for many private universities.

If your child attends a Big 3, they are also a strong candidate for USC with those grades. Stanford is a reach for most, so they may as well try. Pepperdine and Oxy are good safeties.

Also the Claremont consortium.

Just no to Pepperdine. Instead, look at Loyola Marymount and Santa Clara

[Anonymous]

UC publishes this data - you can go look up private schools applications/acceptances by UC school each year.

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/admissions-source-school

I will say that it doesn't seem up to date on how many enrolled. And Cal says 0 when we know of an attending student from class. Don't know if it's just Cal reporting. Or if there's a snag where WL isn't counted as acceptance. (all speculation)

It's unclear why/how they have race data in this chart (which also doesn't look to reflect admissions we know from our school).