UC freshman admissions · Fall 2025 · by high school, by race

UC doesn’t have to look at a student’s race. The high school already tells it.

UC admits by high school: the same transcript is read against the school it came from, and the bar moves from one school to the next. California’s high schools are sorted by race. Put the two together and a school-by-school bar becomes a race-by-race bar. Heavily Latino high schools get 2.79 selective UC offers for every student who exceeds both state standards. Heavily Asian and white high schools get 1.35. That is 2.1 to 1.

‹ Look up a school The Favored 50 The Forgotten 50 Who UC admits, by race

1 · UC admits by school

53× to 0.2×

The range of selective UC offers California public high schools receive, against what their students’ test scores predict (Favored 50, Forgotten 50).

2 · Schools are sorted by race

64%

Latino share of UC applicants at the typical Latino applicant’s own high school. Statewide, Latino students are 41% of UC applicants. The typical Asian applicant’s school is 52% Asian (statewide 30%).

3 · So the bar lands by race

2.1 to 1

Selective UC offers per top-scoring student, heavily Latino high schools (201) against heavily Asian and white high schools (123).

Selective UC offers per student exceeding both SBAC standards

Heavily Latino high schools75%+ of UC applicants Latino · 201 schools

2.79

Every California high schoolthe statewide rate

1.57

Heavily Asian and white high schools75%+ of UC applicants Asian or white · 123 schools

1.35

Selective campuses: UCLA, Berkeley, UC San Diego, Davis, Santa Barbara, Irvine; a student admitted to three counts three times. Public high schools with 50+ UC applicants, Fall 2025.

Fifteen high schools

These are the extremes, picked to show how far apart the bar sits. On one side, heavily Latino high schools where almost no junior reaches the top of the state math test, and UC makes four and five times the selective offers their scores predict. On the other, heavily Asian and white high schools, several of them working-class, where UC makes little more than half. Same state, same campuses, same year. The totals for every school are below.

Five heavily Latino high schools UC favors most

Public high schools with 100+ UC applicants, at least 10 top scorers and 75%+ Latino applicants: the five with the highest ratio.

High school	Latino share of UC applicants	UC applicants	Free/reduced lunch	Juniors exceeding SBAC math	Selective UC offers	Expected from scores	Ratio
Citrus Hill HighVal Verde Unified · Riverside County	92%	118	92%	2.9%	90	~16	5.7×
Desert Mirage HighCoachella Valley Unified · Riverside County	98%	100	97%	3.1%	102	~20	5.0×
Anaheim HighAnaheim Union High · Orange County	90%	163	94%	2.8%	114	~27	4.3×
Santa Maria HighSanta Maria Joint Union High · Santa Barbara County	96%	167	76%	2.8%	119	~28	4.2×
Panorama HighLos Angeles Unified · Los Angeles County	87%	143	98%	5.7%	108	~27	4.0×
These five together		691			533	~118	4.51×

Five heavily Asian high schools UC favors least

Public high schools with 100+ UC applicants, at least 10 top scorers and 75%+ Asian applicants: the five with the lowest ratio.

High school	Asian share of UC applicants	UC applicants	Free/reduced lunch	Juniors exceeding SBAC math	Selective UC offers	Expected from scores	Ratio
Glen A. Wilson HighHacienda la Puente Unified · Los Angeles County	78%	140	65%	35.5%	113	~211	0.5×
Fountain Valley HighHuntington Beach Union High · Orange County	80%	309	52%	33.2%	227	~394	0.6×
Milpitas HighMilpitas Unified · Santa Clara County	80%	284	44%	33.0%	203	~351	0.6×
John A. Rowland HighRowland Unified · Los Angeles County	82%	140	68%	23.1%	111	~189	0.6×
Piedmont Hills HighEast Side Union High · Santa Clara County	85%	198	30%	33.3%	153	~244	0.6×
These five together		1,071			807	~1,388	0.58×

Five heavily white high schools UC favors least

Public high schools with 100+ UC applicants, at least 10 top scorers and 60%+ white applicants: the five with the lowest ratio. No public school that size is more than 77% white.

High school	White share of UC applicants	UC applicants	Free/reduced lunch	Juniors exceeding SBAC math	Selective UC offers	Expected from scores	Ratio
La Costa Canyon HighSan Dieguito Union High · San Diego County	60%	108	18%	23.2%	77	~151	0.5×
Anderson W. Clark Magnet HighGlendale Unified · Los Angeles County	77%	134	47%	42.5%	119	~170	0.7×
Archie Williams HighTamalpais Union High · Marin County	71%	135	10%	26.4%	86	~115	0.7×
Carlsbad HighCarlsbad Unified · San Diego County	64%	157	32%	22.4%	151	~176	0.9×
Valhalla HighGrossmont Union High · San Diego County	74%	101	69%	15.2%	81	~93	0.9×
These five together		635			514	~705	0.73×

Ratio is the Admitted California Ratio: selective UC offers divided by the offers the school’s top scorers predict at the statewide rate (1.57 per top scorer). 1× is in line; above it, UC admits more than the scores predict.

The whole state

Every public high school with 50 or more UC applicants that UC’s race file matches to our school data: 775 schools, grouped by who their applicants are.

High schools where UC applicants are…	Schools	Top scorers	Selective offers	Offers per top scorer	Ratio
75%+ Latino	201	4,677	13,053	2.79	1.77×
Majority Latino	347	9,329	22,671	2.43	1.54×
Majority white	38	3,069	4,295	1.40	0.89×
Majority Asian	130	18,964	25,915	1.37	0.87×
75%+ Asian	32	5,989	7,952	1.33	0.84×
75%+ Asian or white	123	18,995	25,614	1.35	0.86×

It isn’t only poverty

UC says it reads each school’s resources, and in California poverty and race arrive at the same school door. But hold poverty roughly fixed and the gap is still there. Among the poorest high schools, where 70% or more of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, majority-Latino schools get 1.64× the offers their scores predict and majority Asian-and-white schools get 1.02×.

Free/reduced-price meals	Majority-Latino schools	Ratio	Majority Asian + white schools	Ratio
30–50%	10	1.15×	122	0.83×
50–70%	35	1.13×	69	0.98×
70% or more	301	1.64×	22	1.02×

Below 30% low-income there is only one majority-Latino public school with 50+ UC applicants, so that band is left out.

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