Niche has total student number but not senior class size. I guess dividing that by four is close enough?
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So I did the division by four trick. This is the percentage of seniors who got accepted to Berkeley, whether they applied or not, in descending order. These are just the schools I am tracking. By no means exhaustive.
| UCB 2020 | % Total |
|---|---|
| Lowell | 14.80% |
| Irvington | 10.60% |
| Design Tech | 10.50% |
| Dougherty | 9.20% |
| Mission San Jose | 9.20% |
| Saratoga | 9.10% |
| Los Altos | 7.10% |
| Foothill | 7.00% |
| Monta Vista | 6.90% |
| Leland | 6.70% |
| Gunn | 6.00% |
| Carlmont | 5.90% |
| Palo Alto | 5.70% |
| Cupertino High | 5.60% |
| Los Gatos | 5.40% |
| Lynbrook | 5.30% |
| Burlingame | 5.00% |
| Dublin | 4.90% |
| Aragon | 4.20% |
| Lincoln | 4.10% |
| Mills | 4.00% |
| San Mateo | 3.70% |
| Mountain View | 3.70% |
| Evergreen | 3.40% |
| Piedmont | 3.10% |
| Fremont (Sunnyvale) | 2.90% |
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Forget Cupertino and PA, move to the Irvington area.
Design Tech is a very interesting small charter school near the Oracle campus.
For comparison, below is the Asian acceptance rate, whether they applied or not.
| UCB 2020 | % Total Asian |
|---|---|
| Piedmont | 24.8% |
| Design Tech | 24.5% |
| Los Gatos | 19.8% |
| Lowell | 17.6% |
| Los Altos | 16.6% |
| Irvington | 12.0% |
| Foothill | 11.8% |
| Carlmont | 11.2% |
| Dougherty | 10.2% |
| Palo Alto | 9.9% |
| Saratoga | 9.9% |
| Gunn | 9.8% |
| Aragon | 9.5% |
| Burlingame | 8.9% |
| Leland | 8.9% |
| San Mateo | 8.4% |
| Mission San Jose | 8.1% |
| Dublin | 7.6% |
| Mountain View | 7.5% |
| Fremont (Sunnyvale) | 7.4% |
| Lincoln | 7.1% |
| Monta Vista | 6.9% |
| Cupertino High | 6.6% |
| Mills | 5.5% |
| Lynbrook | 5.5% |
| Evergreen | 3.6% |
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But these are the stats now. What is the prediction 3 years or 5 years from now? There might be some other school (other than Irvington) which might have better acceptance and so this becomes like playing whack a mole.
Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/12/16/harvard-test-optional-college-admissions/
More than 90 percent of schools on U.S. News & World Report lists of top 100 liberal arts colleges and top 100 universities nationwide are not requiring scores for admission this year. That finding comes from a Washington Post analysis of data from FairTest, a group that supports the test-optional movement. Hundreds of lesser-known schools also have dropped score mandates.
School grades will be more important going forward. Our house buying strategy needs to account for this.
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Test optional is different from test-blind. But agree grades will be very important
Where are you getting these numbers? I’d like to know how Woodside High School fares.
This?
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So App means Applied and Adm means how many were admitted? Where is manch getting the admissions even if they didn’t apply?
BTW, thanks! This is more info than I get from our school’s college counsellor… They don’t want to say who got in where.
This data seems to be incomplete. I know we have someone at UC Santa Cruz, but he’s not showing up.
PS: The tables I’ve looked at DO NOT show admissions that someone didn’t apply to even if they did go.
People must apply to get admitted. My ratio is just the number of Asians admitted divided by the number of Asian seniors in that school.
No, that’s not how it works. You can apply to Berkeley and be rejected and be admitted to all the other colleges because your GPA qualifies you to a UC admission somewhere.
So the App and Adm numbers look very much to me like it’s only those who applied and were admitted to that particular school. it’s not showing the unapplied admissions even if someone enrolled there.
With Berkeley I am not sure how many people get in without putting Berkeley as their first choice. Like people got in Berkeley after being rejected by their first choice school UC Santa Cruz? Don’t think that happens.
No clue either. Does seem unlikely.
It could definitely happen for UCLA though. Apply to UCB get bumped to UCLA.
Anyway I was just interested to see how many of the Asian seniors got into Berkeley or UCLA in each school. Maybe I didn’t phrase it very well. The Asian senior population number is really just my fuzzy math.
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Understood, I would just say “whether they applied or not” is incorrect. It’s “when they applied directly to the school.”
New data shows shift at Lowell High School: more students given failing grades after admissions change
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No way! I’m actually glad they’re doing that instead of lowering the standards. That’s going to the the battle for colleges going to woke admissions standards.
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Will they have the integrity to keep their academic standards and fail out the kids that can’t hack it?
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Will they look at the data and realize minority students are failing out at a higher rate, declare it racist, then lower the standards?
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What is the numerator and denominator here?
Lynbrook has 80+% asian population.
Does this mean lynbrook acceptance rate (I assume admitted/applied) is 5%?
Well, starting from 2020, the number of students admitted to UCB went down significantly(something like 65 to 25) at Lynbrook. Not sure what’s going on. My kid withdrew UC application after getting admitted to Early Decision school. I guess there are good number of kids like mine (who are not at all counted in this STAT). However, I am not sure that alone can explain such huge drop. The good news is acceptance rate in other private/OOS schools didn’t change or even improved.
IMHO, relying on UC schools is very risky especially if your kids are considering popular major like CS, engineering, BME etc. It becomes harder and harder. You should be open to all the options (this means you should save enough money to cover 4-year private college tuition…).
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