What does Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC) at the University of California mean? And what does it mean to students at M-A?
I want to enter the University of California next year and I’ve been already getting prepared for it. But I still have so many questions. One of them concerns home tasks. Are they really so difficult and time-consuming that students just prefer to buy essay instead of doing them on their own? I just can’t picture a situation where I choose to buy homework.
Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC) is a program by which the University of California identifies top-performing California high school students. Unlike the broader statewide eligibility pathway, which seeks to recognize top students from throughout the state, ELC draws qualified students from among the top 9 percent of each participating high school.
The ELC program was implemented to:
- increase the pool of eligible students
- meet the guideline of the California Master Plan for Higher Education, which states that the top 12.5 percent of public high school graduates will be considered UC-eligible
- give UC a presence in each California high school and stimulate a college-going culture at those schools that typically do not send many graduates to the university
You may have read about the ELC program in the news or heard about it on television. It is a relatively new program through which the seniors who constitute the top four percent of each high school in California are considered UC eligible “in the local context,” rather than in the statewide context that has traditionally made students UC eligible. M-A participates in this program by providing the UC with a list of those students in roughly the top ten percent of the class who sign a waiver permitting their transcripts to be examined by the UC to determine who would be in the top four percent. The top four percent as designated by the UC (and the UC has a special way of creating the GPA to make this determination) are then notified, and are considered to be “eligible in the local context.” This means they will be assured a spot at a UC campus, though not necessarily their first-choice campus. In general, this means a spot at Riverside or Santa Cruz, and it will also give students an edg
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