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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This debate has been going on in California for years.  Maybe the UC San Diego debacle has made it more apparent.  The UC's admit based on high schools, not just merit of the general applicant pool.  It is an equity driven way to avoid Prop 209.

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Dominguez High has 1,600 students Dominguez High has 0 NMSF finalists and 0 Commended.
University High has 2,363 students. University High has 33 NMSF finalists, 102 Commended

Keep dreaming if you think their applications are being treated equally.

Dominguez High
Berkeley
21 Applied
6 Accepted
28% acceptance rate
UCLA
72 Applied
7 Accepted
7 Enrolled

University High
UC Berkeley
266 Applied
31 Accepted
14 Enrolled
11% acceptance rate
UCLA
294 Applied
24 Accepted
12 Enrolled

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Equal acceptance rate for UCLA at both schools.  FTR, I have lived in the Bay Area for 30 years and never heard of Dominguez High.  Is this a cherry picked example to make a point?  [/quote]

Actually perfectly on point.  This high school was not "cherry picked".  You can pick any high school in California and you will see the same pattern:  A low achieving high school receives proportionately the same number of acceptances to the "prestigious" UC's as a lower performing one.

University High is in Irvine.  It has more than 100 commended National Merit Scholars and over 30 Semi-Finalists.  Yet the acceptance rate for Berkeley and UCLA from students from University High will be the same as any other high school in California, even the ones where its graduates can't do third grade math.  UC San Diego got hit in the head with a two by four with its equity drive.   You don't have to wonder why, just look at how the UC's accept its students.

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