UCs only give weighted boost to CA students AP and IB. They don’t give any boost to an OOS AP course grade.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:in - public school 3.9

and bad SATs which weren’t considered lol

best of luck to all

How many AP classes? I think private school kids without AP classes are getting shut out because UC’s only give weighted boost to gpa for AP and IB classes if you are OOS.

Major flaw in their admissions calculus

It’s a planned flaw. They went test blind but not really. Blind to one kind of test but not another (AP) and the resultant class weighting from the GPA that AP course drives

The deeper I’ve gotten in this process, the more these idiosyncrasies actually just resembles idiocies. It’s as if the gang from South Park wrote an episode about student selection and three spaghetti at a wall

From a bottom line: private school kids in areas where AP classes have stopped (like many in DC) should be actively discouraged from applying to UCs. Yet the num-nuts in our college office do the opposite and encourage it based on 2019 and earlier success data and beyond that, since our school caps at 10 applications (you all know the one) they allow an unlimited number of UCs to count as 1 school in their 10 cap.

Plus the CA rules that limit OOS and Intl to 18 percent have kicked in. So it’s a double whammy. But Big 3 DC CCOs remain entirely focused on SLACs in outreach and approach and knowledge.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:in - public school 3.9

and bad SATs which weren’t considered lol

best of luck to all

How many AP classes? I think private school kids without AP classes are getting shut out because UC’s only give weighted boost to gpa for AP and IB classes if you are OOS.

Major flaw in their admissions calculus

Anonymous wrote:In. Loudoun County.

I forgot to mention — 3.93 weighted, 1150 SAT. 8 or 9 APs. Basic white girl.

She won’t go — attending more affordable VT instead.

This was the last one. She did very well — in everywhere she applied except Tennessee where waitlisted.

Rejected 4.0 unweighted and 35 ACT. He had two classmates get in but honestly they had WAY more extracurriculars.

He did get into Colorado College but not enough financial aid to make it work.

Anonymous wrote:in - public school 3.9

and bad SATs which weren’t considered lol

best of luck to all

How many AP classes? I think private school kids without AP classes are getting shut out because UC’s only give weighted boost to gpa for AP and IB classes if you are OOS.

Rejected

Accepted OOS online school

in - public school 3.9

and bad SATs which weren’t considered lol

best of luck to all

My kid accepted! Boarding school

In. Loudoun County.

Anonymous wrote:My kid rejected UCLA. Local Big 3 here in DC. 3.8-3.9 unweighted GPA. Applied humanities major.

Was not surprised at the rejection given the OOS stats

Same stats kid WL

DC is waitlisted. Kind of surprised considering oos status.

My kid rejected UCLA. Local Big 3 here in DC. 3.8-3.9 unweighted GPA. Applied humanities major.

Was not surprised at the rejection given the OOS stats

we are from a local LA private, DC got rejected which was predicted