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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are evaluating students compared to others at their same high schools. So your kid goes to a high school in Silicon Valley with 50 national merit scholars it is going to be tough for you to get into ucla and Berkeley if your kid is a national merit scholar but 40th in the class.

The 40th top student might have 10 AP’s with 4’s and 5’s  all A’s and maybe one or two B’s. And took bc Calc in 11th grade. The top 20 at a school like that might have taken calculus on 9th or 10th grade and has done well in competition math.

Not that UC’s factor in psat scores but looking at how many national merit scholars there are gives you an idea how competitive a school is.  [/quote]

ELC (excellence in local context) is what matters as the first cut, especially at competitive high schools. That is the top 9% of the school. If you are in the bay area and you aren't designated as ELC you're unlikely to get into UCLA or UCB.[/quote]

If I remember correctly, the top 9% of the school guarantees UC admission, most likely UC Merced, Riverside or Santa Cruz.  But it isn’t going to get a kid into Cal or UCLA that often.  As I said upthread, at my son’s HS, they took out of the top 2%-3%, maybe one or two out of the top 5%.[/quote]

How long ago did your son apply?[/quote]

This year.  Accepted at Davis and Santa Cruz, rejected at Cal.  He was one of those 9% kids.[/quote]

Did he end up going? My son just completed his first year at Davis and loves it.[/quote]

Sadly for me and my wife, no, too close to home (Sacramento). Glad to hear that your son loves it.  I went there decades ago (only 13,000 undergrads!) and didn’t really appreciate what was being created there.  A charmingly unpretentious place.  [/quote]

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