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[quote=Anonymous]Things have really changed in the past 5-6 years. UC and Cal State admissions are crazy. An unweighted 3.9 and weighted 4.2 (UC cap only allows 8 semesters of honors/AP/dual CC or summer college etc bumps) puts you in the waitlist bucket at mid tier UCs and top CalStates per their data sets. DS was lucky to get into Davis, SDSU, UCSC, UCMerced and waitlisted at UCSD, UCSB and UCI. UC doesn’t allow tests so a 1550 SAT, and excellent teacher recommendations don’t matter. Having an additional a weighted 4.7 above the cap doesn’t matter. Having 60 transferable credits including CC honors courses and all 5s on most rigorous APs doesn’t matter. Holistic may or may not matter. He had really strong ECs but no trauma or hardship. UC waitlists do move so who knows.

He’s looking at UCSD and SDSU now. UCSD has become the desired school for Northern California kids. Not sure why.

He has some high stat friends that are at SDSU now and a bunch of high stat friends who didn’t get in or were waitlisted. Cal States give a sizable bump for regional proximity so you will have local SD students with far lower GPAs than out of region. He’s hoping that there will be enough serious students that he doesn’t feel out of place around the dumb blond party people. 
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