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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The UC system is supposed to take anyone with above a 3.0. Prior to the creation of Merced, it was failing at that. Merced was set up to help those qualified students without tippy top statistics, particularly from the Central Valley — and it has done an exceptional job of educating those students. So, yeah. If your goal is to get into UCLA or Berkeley straight out of high school, it is hard to do so but that’s not that different from many other in state flagships.

And,  California’s higher ex system includes and is bolstered by the Cal States and their excellent community college system, which helps fill the gaps for students who don’t want to or can’t attend a research school. There’s still stigma around community college but they are far more affordable and Gen Z is particularly mindful of that.

If I were a high school student there are worse places to live than California.[/quote]

Not true that UC system is supposed to take anyone with above a 3.0. Their mission is to take the top 12% of California students. Cal States are for the top 33%. And Community colleges are for everyone. UC's have a goal to take one transfer student for every 2 freshman with priority given to CA community college students. Just because you have a 3.1 does not mean you will get admitted to any UC.

It is hard to compare a school that people have posted about called Lick whose tuition they post online is over $60,000 and it is NOT a boarding school. My kids public high school of 1,000 students does NOT offer  AP Biology, Ap Chemistry, AP Physics 2, AP Physics Mechanics or AP Physics EM. There is no music offered. If you want to take a music class you have to go to another high school and it is up to the student or parent to transport themselves there and back. Almost all students have to take Math 1 as a 9th grader, Math 2 as a 10th grader, Math 3 as an 11th grader then get to calculus senior year. Class sizes in AP classes are often 40 or more students. The AVERAGE class size in our district for high school is set at 36. So the school tends to put 39-42 students in honors / AP classes and around 30-32 on on level classes. One of my kids took APUSH with 43 students in total. There were not even enough chairs in the room. A couple of students volunteered to be rovers and sit in chairs where the assigned students were absent. If everyone showed up someone volunteered to stand. This is at a middle to upper middle class school. [/quote]

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