panda
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Paydawg, 
About year ago, Irvine Home Shopper aka BkShopr had some real data on this showing the acceptance rate of IUSD grads to Ivies, Cal, and UCLA vs 8 and 9 schools in California. The numbers were really eye opening but the poor IHS got shot down again by the Irvine lovers. If you can still find that link IHS posted back then, I would seriously take a look at it.
Basically IHS's point was that if your ultimate goal is to send your kids to an Ivy League or a top elite university, sending your kids to IUSD may actually have an opposite effect. Homes in Irvine are probably atleast a 20% premium over Aliso Viejo. Your kid performing at an 91% in Aliso Viejo High maybe performing at a 80% in Uni High which is a reality.
I would say that the Aliso Viejo Senior would have a clear advantage over the Uni High Senior in UC admission with similar aptitude, discipline, and intelligence. The Aliso Viejo dad did not pay the 20+% premium that the Irvine dad paid, but his son has an advantage over the Uni High Senior in terms of admissions.
In conclusion, to put this in simple terms: You are not getting what you paid for.
 
				
			About year ago, Irvine Home Shopper aka BkShopr had some real data on this showing the acceptance rate of IUSD grads to Ivies, Cal, and UCLA vs 8 and 9 schools in California. The numbers were really eye opening but the poor IHS got shot down again by the Irvine lovers. If you can still find that link IHS posted back then, I would seriously take a look at it.
Basically IHS's point was that if your ultimate goal is to send your kids to an Ivy League or a top elite university, sending your kids to IUSD may actually have an opposite effect. Homes in Irvine are probably atleast a 20% premium over Aliso Viejo. Your kid performing at an 91% in Aliso Viejo High maybe performing at a 80% in Uni High which is a reality.
I would say that the Aliso Viejo Senior would have a clear advantage over the Uni High Senior in UC admission with similar aptitude, discipline, and intelligence. The Aliso Viejo dad did not pay the 20+% premium that the Irvine dad paid, but his son has an advantage over the Uni High Senior in terms of admissions.
In conclusion, to put this in simple terms: You are not getting what you paid for.
 
	 
 
		 
 
		 
 
		 love it!!  Like it was mentioned in another posting, through the various postings many are actually (maybe silently) quite conflicted about the IUSD academic success focus environment. My conclusion is if I am paying top dollars, it needs to satisfy my top needs, but to me IUSD does not. With that said, may we go back to my original question, what has your experiences been with Tustin or Saddleback? My old neighbor who was a teacher at Saddleback said the teachers care more at Saddleback (compared to IUSD), but I have no knowledge of Tustin. Prior to moving here, I heard IUSD is a very good school district, but am disappointed with the Irvine elementary school that my kids are attending, sorry to be so down on Irvine, I know most of you love & love and very proud to be living in Irvine.
  love it!!  Like it was mentioned in another posting, through the various postings many are actually (maybe silently) quite conflicted about the IUSD academic success focus environment. My conclusion is if I am paying top dollars, it needs to satisfy my top needs, but to me IUSD does not. With that said, may we go back to my original question, what has your experiences been with Tustin or Saddleback? My old neighbor who was a teacher at Saddleback said the teachers care more at Saddleback (compared to IUSD), but I have no knowledge of Tustin. Prior to moving here, I heard IUSD is a very good school district, but am disappointed with the Irvine elementary school that my kids are attending, sorry to be so down on Irvine, I know most of you love & love and very proud to be living in Irvine.
		 
 
		 
 
		 It's the digital age. They're busy teaching themselves Java and making photo-realistic images on Blender. My oldest son recently got invited by a group of 40-something year old men to design the 3D models for a computer game they're making. Before that it was Minecraft. I told them it's ok to go outside, dig in the dirt, and catch snails and tadpoles, play basketball, whatver. But they said, "This isn't the olden days anymore." I have the sads. Playing outside was so much fun when I was a kid. They're missing out. I took them out all the time when they were little but now they want no part of it.  :'( Did the asian rub off on my kids, Panda? I'm raising eggs?
 It's the digital age. They're busy teaching themselves Java and making photo-realistic images on Blender. My oldest son recently got invited by a group of 40-something year old men to design the 3D models for a computer game they're making. Before that it was Minecraft. I told them it's ok to go outside, dig in the dirt, and catch snails and tadpoles, play basketball, whatver. But they said, "This isn't the olden days anymore." I have the sads. Playing outside was so much fun when I was a kid. They're missing out. I took them out all the time when they were little but now they want no part of it.  :'( Did the asian rub off on my kids, Panda? I'm raising eggs?