Higher than 10% of California high schools (1060 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
📊 What this number means
Saddleback Valley Chrstn Sch's UC Reach of 6.2% is below the California median (16.2%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 54.0% or higher.
But in Orange County, where the local median is 23.1% and the top-10% bar is 78.7%, this score is mid-pack rather than exceptional — typical of its market rather than a standout.
Overall, Saddleback Valley Chrstn Sch's UC Reach is higher than 10% of California high schools (1060 ranked).
UC Application Reach
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35.4%
23 applications
In context:
CA median 63.6% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 186.3% · Orange Co. Top 10% ≥ 248.8% · higher than 20% of CA HS.
UC Admit Rate
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17.4%
4 / 23 applications
In context:
CA median 29.4% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 40.9% · higher than 2% of CA HS.
UC Yield Rate
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N/A
None enrolled of 4 admitted
Yield vs. Enrollment Reach:Yield answers "of UC admits, what % chose UC?" — denominator is just the admits. A small admitted cohort can post a low yield even when the school sends a healthy share of its class to UC.
UC Enrollment Reach
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N/A
None enrollees / 65 seniors
Enrollment Reach vs. Yield:Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what % ended up at UC?" — denominator is everyone. High Yield with low Enrollment Reach is common at elite privates: most admits matriculate, but the school sends most of its class to non-UC selective colleges.
Selective UC Reach (UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD)
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6.2
per 100 seniors · campus-level total
In context:
CA median 13.4 · Top 10% statewide ≥ 43.1 · higher than 12% of CA HS.
Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA)
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N/A
Senior Class Size
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65
Private School Affidavit
Total School Enrollment
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669
All grades · Private School Affidavit
Private-school figures come from the California Private School Affidavit. Per CDE, inclusion in private-school data is not an evaluation, approval, or endorsement of a school.
Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs ⓘ
4.11
Admit rate vs. CA peer average, by campus
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How does this school's admit rate at each UC compare to other CA schools whose applicant pool averages the same GPA?
Campus
Applicant GPA (avg)
Actual admit rate
CA peer avg
Δ
Verdict
UC Santa Barbara
4.15
66.7%
51.5%
+15.2pp
Over
"Applicant GPA" is the average GPA of this school's UC applicant pool — not an individual student GPA. "CA peer avg" is the application-weighted statewide admit rate at this school-pool GPA, fit separately per campus. At any given pool GPA, real admit rates span widely (UCSD ranges 8% → 65% across CA schools) because UCs use comprehensive review — context-of-opportunity, geography, demographics, and applicant essays all weigh in beyond GPA. A large negative residual flags this school is admitted at a meaningfully lower rate than other CA schools at the same pool GPA — not that students here were "rejected at expected rate X." "Over" / "Under" use a ±5-point band. Campuses with fewer than 5 applicants are omitted.
UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2020
UC Admit Rate %
UC Reach % (where available)
UC Admits (count, right axis)
Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment.
Campus-level data — applicant/admit totals may count a student at multiple campuses more than once.
⚠ Campus-level totals may count one student admitted to multiple UC campuses more than once.
Admit Volume metrics are not the same as UC Reach, which requires unique-student counts.
See methodology →
What This Means
A large share of the class applies to UC, so the admit rate runs lower than the application volume alone might suggest — expected when many students apply broadly, including to reach campuses. UC Reach (which credits every admit relative to the class) is the truer read of how the class fares: a strong Reach alongside a moderate admit rate is healthy, not a contradiction.
Fewer than 15% of seniors are earning UC admission. This may reflect a high non-UC college-going rate, significant A-G completion gaps, or an early-stage UC pipeline. A deeper review of A-G readiness and counseling capacity is warranted.
Note: admit counts used here are campus-level totals. A student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted twice. When UCOP unique-student data becomes available it will be loaded automatically and the labels will update.
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