UC Admission Data:
St. Margaret's Episcopal School

This page answers one question: how St. Margaret’s Episcopal School students fare when they apply to the University of California (UC). All data come from the UC Infocenter of the University of California Office of the President, reported by source high school with the school type set to California private high school, covering twelve fall admission cycles from 2014 to 2025 at all nine undergraduate campuses. The school’s own matriculation lists appear on the overview page; for UC figures, the official data here take precedence.

Twelve-Year UC Trend at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School: Modest Growth in Applicants, No Growth in Admits at the Most Selective Campuses

The chart below plots, year by year, the average GPA of St. Margaret’s Episcopal School students admitted to each campus. It shows the GPAs that admitted students actually earned, not an admission cutoff.

Over twelve years, the number of UC applicants from this school rose by about one third, and the number admitted nearly doubled. For fall 2014, 52 students applied to UC and 26 were admitted; for fall 2025, 69 applied and 48 were admitted. Over the same period the average admit GPA rose from 3.91 to 4.07, and the average applicant GPA rose from 3.84 to 4.06.

The biggest changes came at the most selective campuses. Using three-year totals, St. Margaret’s Episcopal School students had a 24% admit rate at UC Berkeley in 2016-2018 (123 applications, 30 admits); in 2023-2025 it fell to 18% (164 applications, 30 admits). UCLA fell from 18% to 12% over the same period, and UC San Diego from 30% to 23%. Meanwhile, the systemwide admit rate rose from 65% to 72%, UC Irvine rose from 28% to 44%, and UC Davis rose from 32% to 42%. Total admits across the nine campuses rose from 232 to 401, and nearly all of the increase came from campuses other than UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC San Diego: UC Riverside added 40 admits, UC Irvine 39 and UC Davis 28. Note that UC Riverside and UC Merced figures were not published for some early years because counts were too small, so the actual increase may be smaller than these numbers suggest. Three-year admits to UC Berkeley were flat, and UCLA had 2 fewer.

St. Margaret’s Episcopal School: Year-by-Year UC Data by Campus

Parents of St. Margaret’s Episcopal School students focus most on six campuses: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine and UC Davis. The table lists, by year, the number of St. Margaret’s Episcopal School students who applied to, were admitted to and enrolled at each campus, along with GPA; use the buttons to switch metrics.

Five-Year UC Totals for St. Margaret’s Episcopal School: Admit Rate, Yield and the GPA Gap

At St. Margaret’s Episcopal School, in any single year, differences between campuses can be exaggerated by chance. The table below adds up the five years from 2021 to 2025 and then calculates admit and yield rates. The last column shows how much higher the average admit GPA was than the average applicant GPA, which indicates which part of the St. Margaret’s Episcopal School applicant pool each campus selects from.

Data: official University of California UC Infocenter data by high school of origin. Admit rate = admits ÷ applicants; yield rate = enrollees ÷ admits. The GPA difference is the average across years of “average admit GPA − average applicant GPA”; the number in parentheses is the number of years with data. Cells marked * include years that UC left blank because the counts were too small, so the totals are understated. The systemwide row counts students, not applications: a student who applies to multiple campuses is counted once.

Three points stand out. First, UCLA and UC Berkeley are the hardest campuses for this school’s students, with five-year admit rates of 12% and 14%; UC San Diego is at 21%, UC Santa Barbara and UC Davis are both at 38%, and UC Irvine is at 48%. Second, most enrollment figures were not published because they fell below 3: of the 242 students UC admitted over the five years, 61 enrolled at UC, or 25%, and most admitted students ultimately chose colleges outside UC. Third, at UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine and UC Davis, admitted students averaged 0.13 to 0.17 points higher in GPA than applicants: applicant GPAs are already concentrated above 4.0, so GPA is not the main factor separating admits at the most selective campuses.

St. Margaret’s Episcopal School: Applicants and Admits by UC Campus, Most Recent Year

Campuses are listed in order of the U.S. News national university rankings. UC leaves a category blank when it has fewer than five applicants or fewer than three admits or enrollees.

St. Margaret’s Episcopal School: Comparison with Other Orange County High Schools

At each UC campus, how do St. Margaret’s Episcopal School students compare with other high schools covered on this site? The chart places the Orange County private high schools covered on this site alongside public high schools in Irvine and Orange County, showing three-year combined admit rates for 2023 to 2025, with private schools first and schools in alphabetical order. Use the buttons to switch campuses.

Read this chart with caution. An admit rate reflects the makeup of the applicant pool, including the number of applicants, their grade distribution and their campus choices; it is not a comparison of teaching quality. For 2025, 69 St. Margaret’s Episcopal School students applied to UC with an average applicant UC GPA of 4.06; the school reports 101 graduates in the Class of 2025, which means about one third of graduates did not apply to UC, consistent with the 75 members of the Class of 2026 who left California for college. The chart describes the grade distribution and college direction of this school’s applicants; it cannot be read as a comparison of teaching quality, and it does not mean that any individual student is more likely to be admitted by attending this school.

Two Steps for St. Margaret’s Episcopal School Students Before Using This Data

School GPA and UC GPA: different bonuses and different qualifying courses

St. Margaret’s Episcopal School adds 0.5 grade points for honors courses and 1 for AP and Post-AP courses, and counts every subject except physical education, including grade 9. UC counts only A-G courses from grades 10 and 11, ignores plus and minus grades, and adds one point for every UC-approved honors course. On the UC 2026-27 A-G list, the school has 61 UC-approved honors courses, including 27 AP courses; three courses that the school weights as honors are not weighted by UC: Geometry Honors, Algebra II Honors and English II Honors. Conversely, arts honors courses such as choir, orchestra, theater and film, and the Chinese, Latin and Spanish honors courses, earn only 0.5 at the school but a full point from UC. The same transcript can therefore produce quite different school and UC GPAs, and the difference does not always run in the same direction. All admit GPAs on this page use the UC scale, so recalculate under UC rules before comparing.

Religion and SEA Term: no A-G penalty, no bonus

The three semesters of Religion and Philosophy required for graduation are all on the UC list as category g college-preparatory electives; they count toward UC’s 15-course A-G requirement but are not honors courses and earn no bonus. SEA Term is graded and recorded on a separate transcript, and it is not on the UC list. Both requirements take schedule time but do not reduce the room for UC honors points.

Campus-level applications and admissions follow this page. For admission, tuition and courses, see the overview; for honors and AP planning, see Courses and Course Selection and AP Courses; for math pathways, see Math Pathways.

Data verified on 2026-10-01. Course catalogs are updated each spring; prerequisites follow the school's current Course of Study.