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[quote=Anonymous]Community college transfer is starting to be just as bad if you are from a competitive area DS has a friend 4.0 UW , honors program, competitive swim, student senate, other good ECs, perfect stats in high school, finished all his GE and pre major reqs…denied at Cal. A few kids with lower stats got in.

This scared DS enough to decide between UCSD, UCD and UCSB where he was accepted rather than stay in CC and try for Cal again next cycle. He’s still sad to give up on his dream school but doesn’t know what Cal wants or Cal wants something he has no control over being.

It’s worse for the engineering students as they don’t even have TAG options to the mid tiers. Two national merit scholarship winners and one of the top CS/math students from his high school are headed to UC Merced’s engineering program.

It’s not necessarily anti Asian. Our high school is top scoring, blue ribbon blah blah but only 1/3 of students even try for UCs. 50% is the school, 20% is Asian. In the last seven years, 0-3 white, black or Hispanic kids have been accepted at UCLA or Cal. Each about 9 Asian kids get in.[/quote]

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