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Folsom High in Folsom CA is middle class, mostly white and Asian and has 637 seniors. 42% met or exceeded California's math standards. Grant High School is low income, mostly Black and Hispanic and has 410 seniors. 13% of the students met or exceeded California's math standards.

UCLA
Folsom: 
119 applied, 9 admitted 
Grant:
27 applied, 6 admitted

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So, it sounds like 1.4% of the graduates in both schools were accepted to a UC.  My read on that is that UCLA purposely tries to accept the top students from all schools, and this is irregardless of the school’s overall socioeconomic status.  I’m not sure if there is anything surprising here, but is that the point you were trying to make?[/quote]

And to correct, my post above.  This seems to be the case for public schools.  At least in DC’s case, the well-regarded privates gain acceptances at a much higher (~10 pct rate.[/quote]

No they don’t and that is easily verified. For top public and private High Schools UCB and UCLA admissions tend to follow the overall acceptance rate for the UC. May be a couple of points above or below in any given year but there isn’t much variability.[/quote]

It is fairly verifiable, and I stick by my original post.  Also note that I said % of total student population NOT the percent accepted from those who chose to apply.  The question being tested is how selective they are compared to the total graduating class, and the applicant pool is less relevant in that case. Here is an example:

Per the UC website for Lick Wilmerding applicants to UCLA — 101 applied, 13 admitted, and 6 chose to enroll.  Lick’s class size is roughly 140, so that is an admit rate of ~10% of the total class or 13% of applicants accepted.  College Prep, Head Royce, Nueva, etc all have some rough version of the same math with the only real difference being how selective the STUDENTS were on applying to a top UC.

Finally, I looked at Mission HS in SF too since that often gets thrown out since the Chronicle ran article on them.  For UCLA, they had 7 of 56 applicants accepted (13%), but they also have 260 in their graduating class (~3% of class admitted).  In fairness though, 3% is still quite strong, and they do [u]remarkably[/u] well when looking at UCB.

Below is the UC database, and you can run this as you desire.  Bottom line is that they seem to be aiming to admit the top students in the school…..not the top students in the overall in applicant pool.

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