Reply to UC college admits from the Big3

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "UC college admits from the Big3 "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.

[/quote]

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]

There are 125 students per grade at Sidwell. Those 30 applications are most likely coming from the same 5-10 students. Are you actually trying to convince us that UCs are some of the most sought after colleges by Sidwell students? Please stop.[/quote]

In 2023 - 25 Sidwell students applied to Berkeley and 27 applied to UCLA...... look before you leap.[/quote]

And how many were admitted to each?[/quote]

Berkeley lists 0 but we know a student is there - so it's hard to say whether that is a reporting error vs a student getting off WL

UCLA lists 3 (and we know of 3 accepted there)[/quote]

Did they have any Bs?[/quote]
You ask this question like Bs are the only thing that matter. Do these students getting denied have strong ECs, do they have strong essays? One B or a few Bs definitely isn’t a disqualification for UCB. Check their common data set. A majority of students accepted don’t have perfect GPAs.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics