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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Getting into a UC not named UC Merced or Riverside is not that hard.

Generally don't suck and be in or near the top 10% of your class, participate in your school's community, show you are a decent human being and you'll get into one of them.  Will it be Berkeley or UCLA?  That's the crapshoot, but you will get into one of them.

Admission's statistics are available for every high school in the country.  It isn't impossible or frankly even that hard because of all the UC's.  [/quote]

You say it isn’t that hard but then also say you have to be in the top 10% of the class which means it is hard to get in particularly at schools with a lot of high achieving kids.  UW 3.9 GPA DC with ECs including significant volunteer work applying for a psychology major didn’t get into any UC except Merced nor did several of her friends get into UCs other than Merced or Riverside as well as few who got UCSC. [/quote]

The top 10% at schools like Lynbrook and Cupertino would eat TJ kids as snacks. Every day is a pressure cooker.[/quote]
https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1743439230/fuhsdorg/owmxetiqoxllgcphfxmi/CHS24-25SchoolProfile.pdf - 15% of Cupertino grads are going to a CC. That’s pretty interesting. The other thing that stood out to me is that the average class size is over 32 students!

My husband’s alma mater, Westlake High School, sends 40% of its students to CC. It’s is not as super extremely competitive of place as Cupertino or some of the other public HSs in the Bay Area, but definitely a VERY nice, upper middle class area and highly ranked school.

The stigma just isn’t there.[/quote]

They are going to feeder CC’s like Foothill which are loaded with kids TAPing into the UCs.[/quote]

This was shortly after COVID, but at my DC's orientation, the department head specifically name checked Foothill, and said if you've loaded up with credits I recommend you retake courses here. You will have to work with admin to be allowed to do that but I can facilitate that.

I'm not sure what decade people are replying from but the CCC is largely buying canned curriculums (e.g. Pearson for math and programming) and hiring anyone with a masters to babysit the course shell. Tenured at a CC is good money and benefits, but moonlighting as per course adjunct is not for anyone who could get an adjunct contract elsewhere. It is a way to get health benefits.[/quote]

You are out of touch. It doesn’t work the way it does on the east coast in California. [/quote]

I'm in CA and very familiar with CC offerings at multiple campuses, know nothing about how they compare to other states. E.g. look here: [url]https://foothill.edu/math/schedule.html[/url]. Courses don't have a textbook, they require purchase of online content meaning all assignments and assessments are canned. That's fine it's a quick way to secure credits, but it's not quality.[/quote]

Nice try using a summer schedule. I fixed it for you

https://foothill.edu/schedule/index.html?dept=MATH&Quarter=2025S
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