CA CA - Sydney “Syd” West, 19, Univ of CA student, San Francisco, 30 Sep 2020 #2

[Lusitana]

Bingo! If I knew my parents were tracking my whereabouts and my father has gotten angry enough to smash my phone in the past over something I did or he didn't like, I would leave the trackable phone at home/in my dorm, and go out with the burner phone so I could still communicate with friends, get an Uber, use google maps etc. MOO.

If her trackable phone were left behind, still connected to the wi-fi signal at the dorm, the parents would be mislead to believe she's there.

Having strict parents can really teach you how to be more secretive and cover your tracks. This could definitely have some unintended side effects. Perhaps instead of having parents she could open up to and tell when she was hurting, she may have not felt comfortable sharing her mental health struggles with them. Was it for fear of not being believed? Was she afraid they wouldn't understand or help her through it? Would she have been made to feel worse, like she was ungrateful for all the things they helped her achieve?

Here she is, an accomplished student and athlete, who spent her whole life up to this point studying hard and competing in team sports. She was successfully accepted to top-ranking schools, but perhaps there was a shift in her mindset through the pandemic, or through depression, and maybe she just wasn't...feeling worthy of it all?

To work so hard for something you don't feel like you "earned", or maybe it's just something you don't even want anymore...This could be such a hopeless feeling. This is what depression does. MOO.

In my experience, the kids with overly controlling parents were the most sneaky and rebellious. Nothing good ever comes from being a controlling parent or for always getting mad at your kids, in my opinion, that usually leads kids not trusting their parents to ask for help when they are in trouble or not reaching out for them for comfort when they are hurting. Not saying this is the case here, but just thinking out loud. Sneaky kids might not be doing anything "bad" at all.

 

[Lyanna]

If you wanted to know what I was up to, ask my very close friends, my parents had no clue

Same!!

 

[NSamuelle]

Sidney's age of 19, while an adult, she was probably not completely independent and was supported financially by her parents. IMO, that's normal for that age. At the same time, she was a young adult that probably wanted freedom from her parents. If she had a burner phone, that's a sign to me she wanted privacy that she felt she was not getting. I grew up with very strict parents and was the only girl. I became very sneaky and resourceful. If you wanted to know what I was up to, ask my very close friends, my parents had no clue. IMO

Sydney may have been supported in some ways financially, but she posted on Reddit that her father refused to pay out-of-state tuition for Berkeley. I’ve wondered about whether that was a stressor.

 

[ElizabethAnne]

Sydney may have used to burner phone not only to escape tracking (one of the vigils had the father saying he wanted to know at all times where within 6 feet each of his daughters were) but to upload and download items from the internet that she was perhaps trying to hide.

It seems like she had many stressors including living up to the "you are destined to do great things" push from family members as is reflected on the Find Sydney West website as well as the push to get accepted into Ivy League schools or Stanford as well as the rowing D1 athletic push. There have been significant press coverage on UC Berkeley rowing issues and lawsuits (sexual assaults at parties) and SJSU swimming/diving issues and lawsuits (sports medicine director "treatment" allegations similar to the USA gymnastics scandals)---you can Google the Bay Area newspapers for more details---but Sydney was not given an athletic scholarship for Berkeley rowing. According to her reddit, it was only a promise of a scholarship her junior or senior year if she made it onto the fastest 2 boats. Of course, Sydney had no previous rowing experience so that makes that likelihood very slim. She turned down UMass Amherst which was where she was offered a scholarship and where she noted on reddit that her parents both knew the rowing coach.

At UC Berkeley, there is a recent allegation (2016) that a female rowing team member was assaulted by a male rowing team member and that the coach failed to report it Video: UC Berkeley investigating another case of sexual misconduct Sydney never in her reddit mentioned this even though it was widely reported when she lived in Pleasanton so I don't know if she knew about it. She also never mentioned the Jordan Sidoo UC Berkeley rowing team issue (he was given a position as coxswain on the men's rowing team), the fake SAT scores, and the well-known Rick Singer college admissions scandal ongoing investigation Cal investigating former crew team member linked to college admissions scandal --- (this link can be opened with incognito browsing if you hit a paywall but there are also plenty of articles about it on the web); therefore, given she never mentioned it in the reddit, it is unclear if she knew about it or not when she applied and was accepted.

She had at least one account (perhaps more) on those websites where you can upload school assignments/tests/essays and in turn unlock and download school assignments/tests/essays with a basic membership and download more items with a premium membership. She used an out of state high school as her location on at least one of her user accounts rather than her actual school name and location so it sounds like she was careful that her schools, prospective colleges, and her family not know that she was doing this. I suspect colleges with more sophisticated ways of screening prospective students check these upload/download internet sites on a routine basis so they can tell who in the current student body is using them for cheating and plagiarism purposes. Using a different high school in a different state as part of the user account seems like no accident. Perhaps she used the burner phone to do the uploads and downloads?

 

[flower_girl]

She had at least one account (perhaps more) on those websites where you can upload school assignments/tests/essays and in turn unlock and download school assignments/tests/essays with a basic membership and download more items with a premium membership. She used an out of state high school as her location on at least one of her user accounts rather than her actual school name and location so it sounds like she was careful that her schools, prospective colleges, and her family not know that she was doing this. I suspect colleges with more sophisticated ways of screening prospective students check these upload/download internet sites on a routine basis so they can tell who in the current student body is using them for cheating and plagiarism purposes. Using a different high school in a different state as part of the user account seems like no accident. Perhaps she used the burner phone to do the uploads and downloads?

Interesting and realistic theories. This one stood out to me though - I am in grad school and no one is checking for plagiarism on those websites. The TAs do all the grading and they don't have time for that. There is plagiarism software built in to the submission platforms for online assignments, but I don't believe anyone has the time to regularly check those sites.

 

[Kittybunny]

The first explanation that came to my mind for staying in a hotel in a city you'd otherwise have places to crash (friends couches, family homes, her own dorm room) would be for in calls.

In/out calls is a term generally used by escort services in their ads. Meaning: the escort is able to go "out" to your home or hotel, or she offers her services "in" her home or hotel room.

There is absolutely nothing to suggest SW was providing escort services. Though, if she had, it would be an important avenue for her family to look into, as foul play becomes even more of a reality.

But there's also no reason she should've had a burner phone, so it begs the question of who she was contacting using a phone that for all intents and purposes, "doesn't exist".

Surely, they've checked all security footage from the hotel by now...Would be curious to see if she checked in alone, or arrived with anyone else. If she made/received any calls in her room, how she paid for her hotel stay. What time she checked in/out of the hotel. If she left any of her belongings in the room etc.

This is of course, a stretch, even for me, as I believe she succumbed to depression on the GGB that morning. Syd was a high achiever struggling with depression and part of a family who appears very involved with their outward appearance, status and reputation. I know what it's like to struggle with your mental health, while having your family more concerned with how this makes them look and feeling sorry for themselves about "where they went wrong" vs how they could've helped and supported their daughter through mental illness in the first place.

MOO.

Good point about the in calls, I didn't even think about that angle of it. I agree with you that I think depression played a major role here but it makes sense to look at a potential aspects.

 

[ElizabethAnne]

For assignments, some schools use Turnitin but others have their own software. TAs at Berkeley are called GSIs. The UC system has a Statement of Integrity in the application process. All statements and representations are subject to third party independent verification and/or official documents. Here is the statement - https://admissions.universityofcalifornia.edu/docs/StatementOfIntegrity.pdf and the potential impacts for falsifying any parts of the application are severe.

Many UC's verify everything and are doing this with particular rigor after the college admissions scandal and if they find a problem, can revoke the admission offer, nullify classes taken and actually nullify the degree received after the fact.

Since the Rick Singer scandal involved many side-door athletic admissions combined with the applicant faking a minority status - Were Students Coached to Claim Minority Status? | Inside Higher Ed and Students Were Advised to Claim to Be Minorities in College-Admissions Scandal , it isn't surprising that they are ensuring applicants are truthful. If you click on either article, it gives an example of a student claiming to be Native American.

It says in the above articles in part: "....applicants may have claimed to be underrepresented minorities based on a tenuous connection, such as a distant relative of Native American ancestry, said one of the people familiar with his business," the Journal article said. "In one case, the person said, a teenager was presented as Native American when 'there was absolutely nothing Native American about this kid.' "

Everyone who has ever been enrolled in a California public school is issued a CALPADs identifier (SSID#) and this is how assessments are tracked by individual student/ethnicity on the prior STAR tests and the current Smarter Balanced tests. Even if an applicant does not put the SSID# on their application for colleges, admission officers can easily find the info. For example, it is easy to determine if the ethnicity and demographic data and socio-economic status maintained for individual students by K-12 school districts in the public school system matches the ethnicity self-reported by the student on a California college application.

For more information on CALPADs - here is a summary California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) - School Performance (CA Dept of Education) and the race/ethnicity data they collect for each individual ever enrolled in a public school, you can take a look at FAQs - Race and Ethnicity Collection and Reporting - Longitudinal Education Data Systems (CA Dept of Education)

 

[Protectwomenandgirls]

Since the Rick Singer scandal involved many side-door athletic admissions combined with the applicant faking a minority status - Were Students Coached to Claim Minority Status? | Inside Higher Ed and Students Were Advised to Claim to Be Minorities in College-Admissions Scandal , it isn't surprising that they are ensuring applicants are truthful. If you click on either article, it gives an example of a student claiming to be Native American.

It says in the above articles in part: "....applicants may have claimed to be underrepresented minorities based on a tenuous connection, such as a distant relative of Native American ancestry, said one of the people familiar with his business," the Journal article said. "In one case, the person said, a teenager was presented as Native American when 'there was absolutely nothing Native American about this kid.' "

Thank you, ElizabethAnne, for these extremely well researched, detailed and insightful contributions.

When I saw Sydney's comments regarding her Native American ancestry on her college applications I was concerned. My concern directly stemmed from the fact that she commented this on a thread about being paranoid about doing something wrong on her college applications. She also said she didn't have any supporting information for her tribal affiliation.

I had no idea that the state of California (and thus the UC system) could track ethnicity through the state testing system.

It's concerning that Sydney spelled the name of her tribe wrong on her post, but of course that could have easily just been a typo and we can't be sure how she spelled it on her applications.

Just to clarify, I'm definitely not attacking here. I'm trying very hard to understand what may have transpired that led to Sydney leaving college and subsequently vanishing. I just can't seem to grasp onto many details of what happened and thus what was going on her mind when she went missing. There is so little information about her circumstances before her disappearance.

I live across the bay from the golden gate bridge, and I can't even catch a glimpse of it without thinking of Sydney. I think about her almost daily - and my heart truly and deeply breaks for her

 

[ElizabethAnne]

CALPADS contains individual data by student, and Dataquest is the CDE information system that tracks demographic information and test scores by school, ethnicity, grade, etc. The link is here. DataQuest (CA Dept of Education) Enrollment Data - School (grade and ethnicity). This is where they take the individual student data and aggregate it by school, grade, district, etc.

Each year, UCs then have to report out to the State by campus and by race who applied and who was admitted by their race categories for freshman admits and transfer admits and enrolled - Undergraduate admissions summary If you click the Berkeley campus, Berkeley says 17 American Indians enrolled in 2020, 4 of which were domestic nonresidents (out of state) and 13 were CA residents. The CSUs also have to do this as well, but this is on another website.

Some school districts and providers that are contractors that produce the transcripts include the race/ethnicity of a student when they produce an official transcript and send it off to colleges.

If you look at the Dataquest website on the CDE website, and filter by gender:

Foothill High Report (01-75101-0130096)
2016-2017 Foothill High - 0 10th grade female students are American Indian/Alaskan Native
2015-2016 Foothill High - 0 9th grade female students are American Indian/Alaskan Native
Thomas S. Hart Middle Report (01-75101-6117592)
2014-2015 Hart Middle School - 0 8th grade male/female students are American Indian/Alaskan Native
2013-2014 Hart Middle School - 0 7th grade male/female students are American Indian or Alaska Native, Not Hispanic
2012-2013 Hart Middle School - 0 6th grade male/female students are American Indian or Alaska Native, Not Hispanic
6001366 Donlon Elementary Report
2011-2012 Donlon Elementary - 0 5th grade male/female students are American Indian or Alaska Native, Not Hispanic
2010-2011 Donlon Elementary - 0 4th grade male/female students are American Indian or Alaska Native, Not Hispanic
etc.

Also, the College Board tracks individual's race and ethnicity. Please see SA:DATA:2015-16 Changes to the Collection and Reporting of Student Race and Ethnicity Data This is the corporation that performs AP testing, PSAT testing (PSAT/10 and PSAT/NMSQT), SAT testing, etc. and sends official results to colleges for AP test results and SAT test results.

In addition, when students sign up with the College Board in Pleasanton to take the ReadiStep test in grades 8 or 9, and I believe the ethnicity and race are possibly also captured by the College Board at this time (8th grade). I'm not sure about other school districts, but middle school students in Pleasanton usually take the ReadiStep in the 8th grade. This is called the PSAT 8/9 in some school districts. Hart Middle School, along with the other two middle schools in Pleasanton, have given the College Board PSAT 8/9 also called ReadiStep to 8th grade students ( see PSAT Results Information ) every year except recently because of COVID.

If you look at the College Board website, current ethnicity categories are:

• Cuban
• Mexican
• Puerto Rican
• Another Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin
• Not of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin

Race categories are:

• American Indian or Alaska Native
• Asian (including Indian subcontinent and Philippines origin)
• Black or African American
• White (including Middle Eastern origin)
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

I'm not certain whether the ACT also captures race and ethnicity, but I would not be surprised. The CDE summarizes data for SATs, ACTs and AP tests here Postsecondary Preparation (CA Dept of Education)

 

[ElizabethAnne]

UC Berkeley has information regarding the source school of admitted applicants for its freshman 2020 class and whether they were applicants, admitted or enrolled Admissions by source school
The title is called fall freshman by year and UC campus. If you click on Berkeley and then use the filter on county/state/country and put in NC for North Carolina, what is strange is that it only comes up with 4 high schools in NC that are the source schools of NC applicants in 2020. At least when I do this, the high schools that show up don't include Carrboro in Chapel Hill. They include a Charlotte high school, a Wilmington high school, a Cary high school and a Waxhaw high school. This is when I look at FR GND BY YR. I'm somewhat confused as to why Carrboro in Chapel Hill is not listed.

I didn't find Carrboro listed unless I put 2015 in the Fall term box for FR GND BY YR. I don't know why only when I put 2015 in there does the high school come up. I'm not sure if I am using this application correctly, but did find it odd.

When I replaced Berkeley with campus equal to Universitywide, more NC high schools came up but I did not see Carrboro on the list for fall term 2020, but Carrboro did come up for Universitywide and Fall term 2019, 2018 and 2017. If someone is able to find Carrboro on the list for fall term 2020 applicants/admissions as the source school, can you post how you did it? I'm really puzzled by this.

 

[Curious_in_NC]

UC Berkeley has information regarding the source school of admitted applicants for its freshman 2020 class and whether they were applicants, admitted or enrolled Admissions by source school
rsbm
If someone is able to find Carrboro on the list for fall term 2020 applicants/admissions as the source school, can you post how you did it? I'm really puzzled by this.

I couldn't find it either but I found the data somewhat implausible. Only four HS are represented from NC yet 23 students came to UCB from only one of them? That's more than many California schools. Maybe there was incomplete data for 2020 and someone took some shortcuts to fill in missing HS info for out of state students, maybe due to confusion about online classes, etc.

 

[anneg]

UC Berkeley has information regarding the source school of admitted applicants for its freshman 2020 class and whether they were applicants, admitted or enrolled Admissions by source school
The title is called fall freshman by year and UC campus. If you click on Berkeley and then use the filter on county/state/country and put in NC for North Carolina, what is strange is that it only comes up with 4 high schools in NC that are the source schools of NC applicants in 2020. At least when I do this, the high schools that show up don't include Carrboro in Chapel Hill. They include a Charlotte high school, a Wilmington high school, a Cary high school and a Waxhaw high school. This is when I look at FR GND BY YR. I'm somewhat confused as to why Carrboro in Chapel Hill is not listed.

I didn't find Carrboro listed unless I put 2015 in the Fall term box for FR GND BY YR. I don't know why only when I put 2015 in there does the high school come up. I'm not sure if I am using this application correctly, but did find it odd.

When I replaced Berkeley with campus equal to Universitywide, more NC high schools came up but I did not see Carrboro on the list for fall term 2020, but Carrboro did come up for Universitywide and Fall term 2019, 2018 and 2017. If someone is able to find Carrboro on the list for fall term 2020 applicants/admissions as the source school, can you post how you did it? I'm really puzzled by this.

I couldn't find it either but I found the data somewhat implausible. Only four HS are represented from NC yet 23 students came to UCB from only one of them? That's more than many California schools. Maybe there was incomplete data for 2020 and someone took some shortcuts to fill in missing HS info for out of state students, maybe due to confusion about online classes, etc.

In the small print, it says that schools with fewer than five applicants are not shown, and admits and enrollees fewer than three are not shown. Perhaps this would account for the missing data. ?

I tried searching university wide for Carrboro High School for 2019 and found 8 applied, 5 admitted; 3 of the latter female.

 

[ElizabethAnne]

I couldn't find it either but I found the data somewhat implausible. Only four HS are represented from NC yet 23 students came to UCB from only one of them? That's more than many California schools. Maybe there was incomplete data for 2020 and someone took some shortcuts to fill in missing HS info for out of state students, maybe due to confusion about online classes, etc.

The code from the 4 schools says "App" so that means they received applications from those high schools. So for example from Green Hope High School in Cary, NC they received 23 applications from students.

For all campuses in the UC system, 27 students from Green Hope submitted applications Universitywide and 17 were admitted into the UC system. None of the 17 admitted Green Hope students actually enrolled for the Fall 2020 term.

I'm assuming ADM means those that were given conditional acceptance in the Spring of 2020. For ENR I am not sure if that means those that on May 1st notified the University they intended to enroll, whether that means those that actually registered for Fall 2020 classes or those that remained in Fall 2020 classes through "census day." For APP, I am not sure if the count includes all applications submitted or whether the UCs reduce the APP count in situations where they have admitted a student, but then is then unable or unwilling to provide supporting documentation/transcripts, etc. for self-reported claims made on their application.

 

[ElizabethAnne]

In the small print, it says that schools with fewer than five applicants are not shown, and admits and enrollees fewer than three are not shown. Perhaps this would account for the missing data. ?

I tried searching university wide for Carrboro High School for 2019 and found 8 applied, 5 admitted; 3 of the latter female.

Yes, but for Universitywide I believe that if one individual applies to multiple campuses, then the counts are treated as multiple students. So for example if one person applies to Davis, Riverside, and Merced and another student applies to Santa Cruz, Merced, Berkeley, UCLA and San Diego, then 8 would show up in Universitywide.

Sydney stated on reddit she applied to six UC campuses - (reddit -"UCLA, Cal, SB, SD, Davis, Santa Cruz") so I would think that 6 would be embedded in the App count under Universitywide for 2020.

 

[Protectwomenandgirls]

If there was an issue with her application I would think that they would have either not accepted her or revoked her acceptance prior to her arrival on campus. Wouldn't the application process have been finalized by the time she arrived?

 

[ElizabethAnne]

Agreed. She dropped out of Berkeley after just a few days. She had been couch surfing for a month before ending up in a hotel. Why didn’t she just go home? Dad had already refused to pay for Berkeley (source: Sydney’s Reddit) so she may have felt there was little to lose by refusing to come back to NC.

For why she didn't just go home, I wonder if she might have been initially trying to stay in California in order to establish residency to obtain in-state tuition in the future. I think that for North Carolina, students can obtain in-state tuition after being in NC for a year. In California, it is much more difficult for undergraduates. There are three criteria for getting in-state tuition and for those under 24 years old, it is almost impossible to meet the 3rd criteria for "financial independence." The UC San Diego website explains it and the 3rd criteria for "financial independence" is very complicated --- Criteria to Establish Residence for Tuition Purposes
For undergraduate students under 24 years old, even if they attend community college in CA, from what is sounds in the link above, it is almost impossible to meet the criteria #3 according to the web link unless someone gets married.

Also living with the uncle in CA would not have counted as financially independent. The link above says: "Residing in California with an aunt, uncle, grandparent, or friend who provides the student with room and board cannot be considered self-support, even if that person meets the UC residence requirement."

 

[ElizabethAnne]

If there was an issue with her application I would think that they would have either not accepted her or revoked her acceptance prior to her arrival on campus. Wouldn't the application process have been finalized by the time she arrived?

It depends on whether documented proof to change the conditional/provisional acceptance to actual acceptance was postmarked or transmitted electronically by July 1 or July 15 (deadlines differ) that UC Berkeley was actually requesting. Also the UCs at least as far as I know require a series of up to date vaccinations that can require prospective students to spend all summer spacing out vaccines to comply or else the student has to provide medical proof that their vaccines are current.

If prospective students have taken coursework after they were admitted where they have gotten low grades, the UCs can also revoke admission.

Also we have no idea whether she was somehow attempting to get out-of-state tuition waived through the AB 540 process - AB 540 nonresident tuition exemption | UC Admissions which from the webpage sounds like a time consuming process. I'm not sure how the tuition waiver would have been approved given there is a 3 year California high school requirement or 3 year combined California high school and California Community College requirement according to the web page.

Also no one seems to know whether what was happening on the rowing team. She isn't listed on the roster on-line, but as far as whether she quit, decided not to join, tried out and didn't make it, was put on the novice team, or did have an official spot, it is hard to know what happened. All that is known is that in mid-July, she is on Tiktok singing to the tune of "Row Row Row Your Boat" and substituting lyrics such as "I'm dying deep down..." etc in place of the actual words to the song.

 

[NSamuelle]

It depends on whether documented proof to change the conditional/provisional acceptance to actual acceptance was postmarked or transmitted electronically by July 1 or July 15 (deadlines differ) that UC Berkeley was actually requesting. Also the UCs at least as far as I know require a series of up to date vaccinations that can require prospective students to spend all summer spacing out vaccines to comply or else the student has to provide medical proof that their vaccines are current.

If prospective students have taken coursework after they were admitted where they have gotten low grades, the UCs can also revoke admission.

Also we have no idea whether she was somehow attempting to get out-of-state tuition waived through the AB 540 process - AB 540 nonresident tuition exemption | UC Admissions which from the webpage sounds like a time consuming process. I'm not sure how the tuition waiver would have been approved given there is a 3 year California high school requirement or 3 year combined California high school and California Community College requirement according to the web page.

Also no one seems to know whether what was happening on the rowing team. She isn't listed on the roster on-line, but as far as whether she quit, decided not to join, tried out and didn't make it, was put on the novice team, or did have an official spot, it is hard to know what happened. All that is known is that in mid-July, she is on Tiktok singing to the tune of "Row Row Row Your Boat" and substituting lyrics such as "I'm dying deep down..." etc in place of the actual words to the song.

Are people speculating that she never enrolled? She had a roommate for a few days (I’ve talked to ppl at Berkeley), so she was there - but I have no idea what led her to suddenly drop out. I’m not sure anyone knows. I’m not even sure that classes had started yet, so the official line that she dropped out due to difficulties in remote learning is hard to believe. She had been learning remotely all summer and would have been “on notice” of that issue and not surprised by it. Not surprised enough to drop out, anyway.

 

[ElizabethAnne]

For "enrolled" I don't know if those reports capture students that on May 1st say they are choosing that college (SIR) or whether it includes those that show up in the Fall (or take remove classes in the Fall) or those that are enrolled by the "census day" which is usually after the drop period ends for classes.

The parents claim she applied for a deferment for a year with an implication that she never showed up in the Fall, but that contradicts the newspaper articles from the Raleigh area. The deferments are supposed to be applied for by June 15th according to this FAQs | Office of Undergraduate Admissions. There are a set of tasks and a deposit described here regarding official documents and accepting the application offer https://apply.berkeley.edu/counselor/freshman_FAQs.pdf

The News and Observer stated that the father and uncle helped move into her dorm, but you are correct that we don't know if she dropped out before classes started. Students were supposed to self-quarantine when they moved into the dorms and take classes remotely in their dorm rooms. Once she disappeared, the UC Berkeley police tweet characterized her student status as a former student rather than a currently enrolled student. However, that disagreed with the initial missing persons announcement from SFPD and the NC area that said she was a UC Berkeley student, implying that she was a currently enrolled student.

The latest Youtube says she jumped from a high place (a roof of a boathouse) in early July into a lake and injured herself in NC. That would imply that she was in NC during the summer taking remote classes via the Berkeley extension perhaps. Some reports place her in the Bay Area during the summer, but I don't think those are correct. For her gap year, we don't know what address she put down as to where she was residing on her application. However, we do know that her Facebook page says she is from Pleasanton and went to Foothill High. Though she updated the page with pictures while she was a resident of NC Syd West it never mentions she had moved to Chapel Hill (Pleasanton was not updated) and also her new high school was not mentioned.

I'm not sure how she could have had a roommate on campus at Berkeley since because of COVID all the residence halls were made single occupancy only for the 2020-21 school year according to this Living with a Roommate | Housing and Housing for Academic Year 2020–21 and COVID-19 Response | Housing .

 

[ElizabethAnne]

In the small print, it says that schools with fewer than five applicants are not shown, and admits and enrollees fewer than three are not shown. Perhaps this would account for the missing data. ?

I tried searching university wide for Carrboro High School for 2019 and found 8 applied, 5 admitted; 3 of the latter female.

Yes, in addition it looks like Carrboro rather than its registrar uses parchment to produce official transcripts. Here is the link - Carrboro High School Transcripts | Parchment - College admissions predictions.

What is surprising is that parchment not only produces transcripts, but its web page also shows a portion of how many students have applied to certain schools, gotten accepted to certain schools, etc. It shows 11 students from Carrboro applied to Stanford, 2 had been accepted at Brown, etc.