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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS had a 790 on the math SAT and 750 RW SAT and didn't get in. Only UC he got into was UC Santa Cruz.

Meanwhile he got into Williams, Tufts, Carleton, Wesleyan, WashU and more.

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Same SAT score for my son. He did get into a “higher” UC, but not Cal or UCLA.[/quote]

Let me guess Bay Area or the very white wealthy areas in La Jolla or Poway/ Del something? My kid is at Davis and will be the first to say UCs should use the SAT because he thinks he would have gotten into Cal with his scores. (He loves Davis though and frankly it’s a much nicer campus, super safe, friendly kids, opportunities to lead and excel but no stress or shaming of kids that aren’t driven to hustle. ) The lower stat kids don’t detract from his experience. Some are his friends and he helps them as he did a ton of tutoring in high school.

He does think it sucks that so many of his really well prepared, extremely smart, equally high stat friends from high school were shut out of all UCs other than Merced. A few decided to do it as Merced gave them merit scholarships where it’s completely free. UC did invest in putting good faculty there. They are in a top group in the engineering program, hang out in the lab/area and get more interaction with faculty than at other schools. One is already a TA, though not solo teaching. One is participating in research. They are from the Bay so they have great internships this summer. They all have enough AP and DE credits to finish in 3 years. UC profs don’t dumb down their exams, they just curve either up or down.  They’ll have a great GPA and great recs for grad school etc. Even though they hate the area and the rest of the school is meh, they are getting a great academic experience in their STEM program for free.

I really, really doubt the UC AOs at other schools couldn’t distinguish these kids from kids at lower performing, predominantly Hispanic kids just because they didn’t have SAT scores. UC wants to force top stat kids into the lower tiered UCs. The upper and mid tiers need a certain % of hispanicc kids. Requiring or not requiring SATs is not changing this. It will just piss people off more.
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