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Wonderfully empowering for the admissions administrators! Schools will be needing to keep on a lot of low-level staff:

  >record-breaking number of freshman applications for fall 2021 — more than 200,000

  >evaluate the flood of applications without test scores, using 13 other factors

And will be able to produce whatever demographics are demanded by the politics of the moment:

https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/fres...

  >Factors we consider

...

  >Identification by UC as being ranked in the top 9 percent of their high school class ("eligible in the local context," or ELC).

...

  >Academic accomplishments in light of a student's life experiences and special circumstances.

  >Location of a student's secondary school and residence.

Cupertino tiger mothers, note well.

Seems like a great way to completely screw over asian students.

Well, America is still more or less a democracy -- the locally-ruling parties don't seem to have entirely corrupted election systems, yet. So getting involved in politics might make a difference. Best hurry up, while you can.

That was one of the goals.

What's the play? College prep K-8, then move to Fresno for 9-12 so you can be in top 9%?

More likely, hire private tutors while you go to a Title 1 school in Santa Ana or some other impoverished area, then mark yourself as part-Native American and non-binary on your college application. If you can't afford private tutors, well, guess you had the bad luck to be born Asian.

It worked for Elizabeth Warren.

Why not fuck around in high school and then go get a 4.0 at a semi-prestigious community college?

Except "prestigious" (even "semi-prestigious") and "community college" are mutually exclusive. You may be able to get a satisfactory education at one, depending on the college and the field of study...but prestigious? No way.

this discussion is about UC -- he's talking about the fact that the admission rate for many campuses and majors is actually higher for california CC transfers, with some UC campuses still offering guaranteed admission (TAG) under certain conditions.

i think the "semi-prestigious" refers to the fact that some bay area CCs are known as transfer feeders for Berkeley (which does not have TAG, so you have to be competitive among CC candidates).

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