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I disagree in that the other major factor in UC admissions is first generation students or lower income students and this disproportionately impacts the odds of kids from wealthy and private schools even if they themselves aren’t wealthy. Now, for whatever reason some private schools (particularly Catholic ones) are feeder schools (it may be the number of athletes) and do well but most don’t.  Take a school like Harvard Westlake where they have dozens going to HYPMS and something like 40% to a top 10-15 school, 97 admits for UCs and 191 applicants.  Most or 171 applied to Cal and 33 got in.  Now take Mission High in San Francisco (high concentration of first generation and underperforming school) 106 applied and a 101 got in.  78 applied to Cal and 28 got in.  It’s not just your school peers.  Not saying anything is wrong with this policy but there is definitely a focus on the underserved. [/quote]

I think your comparison (denominator) is wrong.  What is the respective graduating class size at Mission High School?  I don’t have time to calculate this right now myself, but I suspect that only ~2% of the TOTAL graduates were accepted to Cal.  At HW down in LA, it is probably closer to ~10%.  Elite privates in the Bay (Lick, University, Head Royce, College Prep, etc) get around 10% of their graduates accepted at for Cal/UCLA.  They are aiming for the top of the class.[/quote]

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