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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.  [b]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.  [/b]I’m not sure if there is anything surprising here, but is that the point you were trying to make?[/quote]

Exactly.  And yet in their mind the 45% of seniors that apply from a “high achieving” high school should ALL get in over the top students of an economically disadvantaged high school.   If only 2 applied from the economically disadvantaged Hugh school and only 1 got into UCLA, could have been the valedictorian, they would say that’s a 50% acceptance rate from the school and absolute proof of a conspiracy to keep their kid out.

What’s crazy about all of this, is assuming it’s a real person, if they went to college in the US in the 90’s, either they went to a competitive college, that likely means you were the top whatever you needed to be back then, maybe 30% (or have the kind of money where that doesn’t matter) ,  OR you didn’t go to a competitive college and did just fine. I do sympathize that the issue might be even if the colleges took the top 10% from each high school what about the other 90% and what is affordable.  The community college-transfer pipeline is strong in CA.  You also have CSUs.  If you have money you also have private colleges and public colleges in nearby states as an option.

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