MeritParity exists to put one question in front of California: are the state's most selective public universities admitting the students who have demonstrably earned it? The report you see here — school-by-school offers measured against school-by-school test performance — is the evidence.
MeritParity is a project of Jim Stewart, owner of Stewart Digital Affairs — a full-service political campaign consulting company. Stewart Digital helps campaigns find, reach, and persuade voters, pairing deep voter-file intelligence with targeted outreach and the kind of hard data analysis that produced this report.
Jim is actively interested in podcasting and media — on merit, admissions, higher-education policy, and the numbers behind this project. To book an interview, compare notes, or pass along a tip, reach him directly.
He's also turning the same lens on the performance of boys in California's public schools, who now trail their female classmates in leadership positions held and by roughly half a point of GPA — a topic for another day.