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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]if your kid or any you know were admitted to Cal, UCLA, etc from a Big3, what do you think put them over the edge? 
I know these are hard admits under the private school paradigm of few APs, etc,  [/quote]

I don’t know any students at my children’s school (Sidwell) who talk about attending a UC. I’m sure there are some, it just hasn’t reached my ears. Generally speaking, I don’t think state schools are popular among Sidwell kids. [/quote]

My son applied from Sidwell a couple of cycles ago.  Denied.  The problem is that a Sidwell GPA will never cut it in a sea of 4.8888888s, and GPA is literally the only thing UCs screen for now.  That, and I think poverty.

Michigan, Virginia and Wisconsin "get" the Sidwell situation.  UCs and Texas do not.  So, Ann Arbor is a more reliable admit than UC Santa Barbara, oddly.

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UCs are not highly sought after by Sidwell students. That said, there are 5 c/o ‘24 students going to UCs (1 each to Cal, UCSD, and UCSC). The two students who are going to UCLA are recruited athletes.

Sidwell seems to send a handful of students (including non recruited athletes) to UCs every year. It’s not an impossible admit. [/quote]

And yet Sidwell seniors send in close to 30 applications per year with only a few acceptances to Berkeley/UCLA. [/quote]

Well, I think that’s been explained.  They don’t understand the rigor of these schools, and since they are test blind, are looking for kids with extremely high gpas.[/quote]

It's not that they don't understand.  They are public schools whose mission is to educate kids from California, and particularly kids who might not have other resources.  The system is intentionally designed to benefit the students who deserve their California tax dollars.  [/quote]

Well, yes, but they also take around 15 to 20 percent oos.[/quote]

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