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According to U.S. News the ranking of the UCs is:

 Berkeley - admit rate 23.1%

 Los Angeles - admit rate 23.3%

San Diego - admit rate 41.1%

Davis - admit rate 58.2%

Santa Barbara - admit rate 54.2%

Irvine - admit rate 55.4%

Santa Cruz - admit rate 81.6%

Riverside - admit rate 75.9%

“All you can do is divide people into two groups, the not good enough’s, and the good enough’s. The application process is not put in place to find the highest scoring students, it’s put in place to predict which students will succeed at that school and beyond. Achievement and standardized scoring have zero correlation. So up to a certain point, grades start mattering less and other aspects more. High scores will not get you into the best school because colleges know that high scores do not correlate with future achievement. This is why the personal statement even exists. I think if you just show that you are obsessively interested in something, anything, it says a lot about you. If the college has the resources to feed your obsession, then they are producing someone who can achieve something. At least they hope.”vintlj

vague idea: Linguistics, Different behavior between spanish speakers and english speakers. Culture Clash.

“That’s exactly right. Just having a passion, literally any passion, shows the adcoms that your not just wondering around school aimlessly. It shows that you have a foundation. Eventually they want you to find your passion and pursue it with their resources. So many studies have shown that higher GPA and higher test scores do NOT correlate with future success in life. Adcoms know this, and that’s what they have in mind when making admission decisions. As Gladwell said, “finding the top boy is tough when you have a room full of clever boys” or something along those lines. He meant that accepting the top 20% of the top 20% of a pool is useless when everyone in a particular pool is equally capable of the same success. Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and now runs Microsoft, Einstein failed exams and hardly went to class, the man with the highest IQ in the nation (forgot his name) is a bouncer in a trailer park town. Two of the three had the passion, the last had the brain nimbleness, but no passion.” vlntj