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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid got in. Nova public, 4.2w, 7 APs, no hooks. We were shocked. [/quote]
What were the extra curriculars?[/quote]

Four years/leadership roles in 1 [b]community based and 1 school based EC a[/b]nd earned 3 awards, lots of community service, rec sports, and started working in the summers at 15 years old. Applied into a humanities major.. Assuming that and the geography helped. This whole process has felt insanely random. 
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This is what helped. Community contributions are big factors in UC acceptances, if you read the UC website it is always the first thing they mention after the GPA[/quote]

I hear you but the same kid was WL at [b]UCSD[/b]. 
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Are you in state PP will your DD likely attend UCSD? (congratulations btw)

UCSD has very low acceptance rates because of the location; it's ideal and gorgeous.  Kids wanna live there so there are so many applicants.  Also, it was likely clear that you were gonna accept UCLA if offered a UC spot.[/quote]

ICLA gets more apps and the uc schools don’t communicate results with one another.[/quote]

100% plus a couple of thoughts

When looking at GPA you need to be careful you understand the UC gpa, it includes specific classes for specific years and, for our of state, only APs and IB classes give grade bumps.

There are some students that are superstars, they will get Regents at some schools and into all the hard ones (unless CS because that is its own crapshoot).  There are others that have a good enough record to get a close look and their PIQs may be more of a fit for one school or another.  I suspect this student’s ECs and essays got her selected for UCLA and not for UCSD.  My DD is in at UCSD and rejected at UCLA, likely slightly higher stats but probably not as good a story for UCLA.

And for the 10th time, the UCs do not yield protect at all, they estimate yield of course but manage it through use of the waitlist.[/quote][/quote]

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