Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
College and University Discussion
Reply to "what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous]NP. Haven’t read the rest of the thread but I’m in California where this is extremely common with the UCs. The problem is that many of the big public high schools here have massive grade inflation so ~50% of the graduating class has unweighted grades between 3.8 and 4.0 or something like that. Then there is no consideration of ACT/SAT. So, you get large high schools where a good number of the kids are essentially indistinguishable, but each UC can’t take (say) 200 kids from a single high school. So, there is a good element of luck. The kids call it the UC lottery. I personally know kids with the following situations: - in at Cal, rejected by UCSD - in at UC Davis, rejected by UCSC - in at UCLA, rejected by UCSB I suspect if I asked around, I’d find more. It’s really common. [/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
