UC Admissions:
12 Years of Whittier Christian High School Data

This page covers one subject: the results of Whittier Christian High School students who apply to the University of California (UC). All data come from UC Infocenter, published by the University of California Office of the President by high school of origin, with the school type set to California private high school. They cover twelve fall admission years, 2014 through 2025, and nine undergraduate campuses. Few students at this school apply to UC each year, and UC does not publish cells with fewer than 5 applicants or fewer than 3 admits or enrollees. This page marks those cells as “not published by UC (too few students)” and makes no estimates. The college outcomes the school publishes itself appear on the overview page; for UC figures, the official data here govern in all cases.

Twelve-Year UC Trend at Whittier Christian High School: Fewer Applicants, Admitted-Student GPA Roughly Flat

The chart below shows, year by year, the average GPA of Whittier Christian High School students admitted to each campus. It reflects the GPAs admitted students actually earned; it is not an admission cutoff. At most campuses, fewer than 3 students from this school were admitted in many years, so the lines break in those years.

The largest change over twelve years is in the number of applicants. In fall 2014, 42 students applied to UC and 21 were admitted. Applications peaked at 58 in 2017. By 2025 the figures had fallen to 18 applicants and 9 admits, less than one third of the 2017 level. The average GPA of admitted students changed little, staying between 3.78 and 3.91 throughout the twelve years.

Taking three years together, from 2016 to 2018 a total of 158 students applied to UC and 94 were admitted, a systemwide admission rate of 59%; from 2023 to 2025, 76 applied and 48 were admitted, a rate of 63%. After applicant numbers were cut in half, admissions fell at every campus except UC Merced, where numbers are very small: UC San Diego dropped from 35 to 10 and UC Irvine from 41 to 10, while only UC Riverside held roughly steady, moving from 31 to 27. Admission rates at UC San Diego and UC Irvine also fell, from 33% to 19% and from 33% to 15%, respectively. Each of these periods includes one year left blank by UC; even counting the blank year at the maximum of 2 admits, the rates are only 22% and 18%.

Whittier Christian High School: Year-by-Year UC Data by Campus

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

Five-Year UC Totals for Whittier Christian High School: Small Numbers Call for Totals

At Whittier Christian High School, in any single year, one or two students can change this school’s figures. The table below adds up the numbers for the five years from 2021 to 2025 and calculates the admission rate and yield. Cells marked * include years left blank by UC, so the totals are understated.

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 Berkeley and UCLA received 66 and 106 applications over five years, respectively, but each published admission numbers for only one year (3 admits), with fewer than 3 in each of the other four years. The 5% and 3% in the table are lower bounds calculated from the published figures, not exact admission rates. Second, the campus with the most published enrollees is UC Irvine, with 12 over five years; 50 students enrolled systemwide over the five years, and enrollment at the other campuses was left blank in most years. Third, UC Riverside and UC Santa Barbara published admission numbers in all five years, making them the two most reliable sets of figures: UC Riverside received 72 applications and made 51 admissions, an admission rate of 71%, and UC Santa Barbara received 99 applications and made 21 admissions, an admission rate of 21%.

Whittier Christian High School: Applications and Admissions by UC Campus in the 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.

Whittier Christian High School: Comparison with Other Orange County High Schools

How do Whittier Christian High School students compare with other high schools on this site at the same UC campus? The chart below places the Orange County private high schools covered on this site alongside leading public high schools in Irvine and Orange County, showing the combined admission rate for 2023 to 2025, with private high schools first and schools sorted by name. Use the buttons to switch campuses.

This chart needs careful interpretation. Admission rates reflect the makeup of each applicant pool: the number of applicants, the distribution of grades and the campuses students choose to apply to. In 2025, the number of UC applicants from the 14 private high schools on this site ranged from 16 to 261, with 18 from Whittier Christian High School. In addition, UC left UC Berkeley admission numbers blank for all three years from 2023 to 2025, so this school is excluded from that column; a blank only means fewer than 3 admits per year, not that no students were admitted. This chart cannot be used to compare the quality of teaching.

Reading UC Data for Whittier Christian High School: Multiyear Totals First, Then the UC GPA

A Dozen to a Few Dozen Applicants a Year: Large Swings in Single-Year Figures

In 2025, only 18 Whittier Christian High School students applied to UC, so a single student equals about 6 percentage points of the systemwide admission rate. Of the nine campuses, only UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and UC Riverside published admission numbers that year, and UC Santa Cruz and UC Merced had fewer than 5 applicants. For this reason, the analysis on this page relies mainly on multiyear totals, and single-year changes serve only as reference.

School Honors and Dual Enrollment Courses: UC Weights a Narrower Set

The school adds 1 grade point for honors courses, AP courses and dual enrollment courses marked (H). According to UC’s A-G course list for the 2026-27 school year, the school has 26 UC-approved honors courses: 13 AP courses and 13 UC-certified honors courses. Honors World History 2, Honors Algebra 2 and Honors Chemistry, commonly taken in grade 10, are all regular courses on the UC list. English 120C, BUSI 100 and several other dual enrollment courses are not on the UC A-G course list; whether they earn weight as UC-transferable college courses needs to be confirmed with the school and UC. The course-by-course list appears in the weighting section of the overview page.

UC applications and admissions by campus follow this page. For admissions, tuition and courses at the school, see the overview; for honors and AP course planning, see Courses and Course Selection and AP Courses.

Data verified on 2026-09-24. Course catalogs are updated each spring; prerequisites follow the school's current Course of Study.