UC Admissions:
TVT Community Day School, Twelve Years of Data

This page addresses one question: how TVT Community Day 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 entry terms from 2014 to 2025 and nine undergraduate campuses. UC still reports the school under its former name, Tarbut V’Torah (TARBUT V TORAH MIDDLE & UPPER SCH), with high school code 051269. The college lists the school publishes are on the overview page; all UC figures follow the official data here.

Twelve-Year UC Trend at TVT Community Day School: More Applicants, Fewer Admits at the Most Selective Campuses

The chart below plots, year by year, the average GPA of TVT students admitted to each campus. It shows the GPAs admitted students actually earned; it is not a cutoff. Because the school is small, UC left the admitted-student GPA blank in many years, so the lines are broken.

Over the twelve years, 20 to 34 TVT students applied to UC each year. In fall 2014, 25 students applied and 20 were admitted; in fall 2025, 32 applied and 19 were admitted. Systemwide, the average applicant GPA rose from 4.00 to 4.06 over the same period, and the average admitted-student GPA rose from 4.04 to 4.12.

The largest changes came at the most selective campuses. Pooled over three years, from 2014 to 2016 TVT students submitted 64 applications to UC Los Angeles with 18 admits, an admission rate of 28%, and 51 applications to UC Berkeley with 13 admits, a rate of 25%. From 2023 to 2025, UC Los Angeles drew 81 applications with only 6 admits published by UC (2023 was not published because the number was too small), and UC Berkeley drew 63 applications with 6 published admits (2025 not published). Other campuses changed less: the three-year admission rate at UC San Diego fell from 33% to 27%, UC Davis held roughly steady from 43% to 44%, and UC Santa Barbara fell from 50% to 36%. The three-year UC systemwide admission rate fell from 78% (85 applicants, 66 admits) to 59% (98 applicants, 58 admits).

TVT Community Day School: Year-by-Year UC Data by Campus

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

Five-Year UC Totals for TVT Community Day School: Admission Rate, Yield, and GPA Gap

At TVT Community Day School, in any single year, differences between campuses are easily exaggerated by chance, especially at a school this small. The table below adds up the five years from 2021 to 2025 and then calculates the admission rate and yield. The last column shows how much higher the average admitted-student GPA was than the average applicant GPA, which indicates which part of TVT’s 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.

The table shows three things. First, UC Los Angeles and UC Berkeley are the two hardest campuses for TVT students: over five years, UC Los Angeles drew 116 applications with only 6 published admits, and UC Berkeley 88 applications with 11 published admits. Second, over five years 85 students were admitted UC-wide and 25 enrolled, roughly 29% of admits: most TVT students admitted to UC ultimately chose not to attend. Third, at UC Davis (five-year admission rate 46%), UC Irvine (38%), and UC Santa Barbara (32%), admitted students averaged about 0.14 to 0.15 GPA points above applicants, which means these campuses admit from the upper part of TVT’s applicant pool.

TVT Community Day School: Applications and Admissions 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.

TVT Community Day School: Comparison with Other Orange County High Schools

How do TVT students compare with students from other high schools on this site at the same UC campus? The chart places the Orange County private high schools on this site alongside the top public high schools in Irvine and Orange County and shows three-year pooled admission rates for 2023 to 2025, with private schools first and schools listed by name. Use the buttons to switch campuses.

This chart needs careful reading. An admission rate reflects the makeup of the applicant pool, including the number of applicants, the grade distribution, and campus choices; it is not a comparison of teaching quality. Only twenty to thirty-some TVT students apply to UC each year. At that size, with about twenty applicants to a campus in a year, a single student’s result moves the admission rate by roughly 4 percentage points. Three-year totals reduce this volatility, but a gap of a few percentage points still should not be read as a difference between schools. In addition, a substantial share of TVT graduates apply to and enroll at colleges outside California and overseas, so the UC data reflect only part of the class’s choices.

Two Points to Keep in Mind When Reading UC Data for TVT Community Day School

A Small School: Single-Year Figures Are Unstable, So Use Multiyear Totals

Over the past five years, 21 to 34 TVT students applied to UC each year: 21 in 2021, 23 in 2022, 32 in 2023, 34 in 2024, and 32 in 2025. Small numbers have two consequences. First, single-year admission rates swing widely: at UC Irvine the rate was 33% in 2023 (5 of 15 applicants), 39% in 2024 (9 of 23), and 29% in 2025 (5 of 17). Second, UC leaves many cells blank: when admits or enrollees number fewer than 3, UC does not publish them, and from 2021 to 2025 admits at UC Los Angeles went unpublished in three years and at UC Berkeley in two. Cells marked * in the five-year table reflect this, and actual numbers are slightly higher than the totals shown. For this school, then, three-year or five-year totals should be the main reference, with single-year figures used only as context.

UC Counts Only Grades 10 and 11, and Does Not Weight Jewish Studies

When calculating GPA, UC counts only A-G courses from grades 10 and 11 and adds extra points only for AP and UC-certified honors courses. TVT’s Jewish Studies courses are all category g on the UC list: they count toward subject requirements but are not weighted. Math honors courses such as Geometry Honors and Algebra 2 / Trigonometry Honors are weighted neither by UC nor by the school. A student’s school weighted GPA may therefore differ from the UC GPA. Before comparing a student’s grades with the admitted-student GPAs on this page, recalculate them under UC rules.

UC applications and admissions by campus follow this page; for the school’s admissions, costs, and religion courses, see the overview; for honors and AP planning, see Courses and Course Planning and AP Courses; and for math tracks, see Math Pathway.

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