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Don’t know exactly when they had this policy. It’s not quite “guaranteed” but it’s as close to a guarantee as you’ll get. I always thought it was top 5%, so somewhat surprised to find out that it’s the top 9%. The 9% is “fixed”, the GPAs and sat scores are not. The numbers I used above is just one possible example to achieve the so-called UC score to be eligible. The link below is where you could find more info:
Thanks for the link. I think the “statewide path” is new. Or at least it wasn’t as easy to find 8 years ago. The local path did exist, though it used to be the top 10% instead of 9%. When my daughter graduated from TP in ’06, a 4.45 gpa and 1400 on the SAT (that was before the 3 part test was mandatory) wasn’t good enough to rank in the top 10% of her class. Putting that 4.45 gpa in perspective, it’s straight A’s for 4 years and 1 fewer than the maximum possible honors classes at the time. It didn’t make the top 10%.
