Students in the top 4 percent of their high school graduating class, who have completed specified academic work by the end of the 11th grade, are automatically UC-eligible under this policy. Minimum standardized test scores are not required to become ELC-eligible. After a student is determined to be eligible for the UC system, individual campuses make offers of admission to the student. The balance of the entering class is selected based on these and additional factors, such as special talent or accomplishment in the context of disadvantaged circumstances. The criteria vary among UC's eight undergraduate campuses.
Standardized tests are a helpful tool in educational decision making when used correctly.
Stony Brook also recommends three SAT II Subject Tests. President Atkinson is proposing that the University of California no longer require the SAT I for admission to the UC system. The university would continue to require the SAT II, pending the development of new standardized tests directly tied to the college preparatory curriculum in high school. President Atkinson has made this proposal to the university's systemwide Academic Senate, which is the faculty's representative body and has responsibility for recommending to the Board of Regents the university's admissions standards. I is not directly related to subject matter covered in high school coursework.