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[quote=Anonymous][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.

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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]

What? Yes, grades are the only things that matter for OOS at UCLA and Cal. Literally, the only things.

Or were you being sarcastic when you suggested that staffers are actually reading 100,000 essays and critically perusing 100,000 compilations of ECs? [/quote]

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