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University announces plans to reduce Asian admissions
The University of California has announced it will change its admissions criteria in order to admit more whites, slightly more blacks and Hispanics while reducing the number of Asians on campus.
Asians make up 37 percent of UC’s incoming freshman, while only 12 percent of California’s population is Asian, according to the Mercury News article.
Opponents of the change say it unfairly discriminates against Asians who want to attend the prestigious UC system. Those in favor of the change say it will create more opportunities for students who once struggled to get into UC.
I’ve pasted a couple of paragraphs below, however the full story will give you a better view of both sides of the issue.
… an analysis of the change predicts that the number of Asians admitted to UC could decrease (after the change) because Asians tend to excel on the “subject tests,” which are no longer part of the application.
Many students - especially low-income and/or minority students - become ineligible to apply because they do not take the subject matter tests, a university spokeswoman said.
The number of admitted whites could increase, because more weight will be given to the “reasoning SAT,” which favors American natives.
African-Americans and Latinos could benefit slightly from the expanded class-ranking criteria because top students from troubled schools such as San Jose’s Lick High School could be UC-eligible.
Critics say they are frustrated because UC has not made public the statistical analysis on which their decision was based.
One blogger suggested if the UC system wanted its population to better reflect the state’s, it should ditch its attempts at race diversity and focus on admitting more in-state students, regardless of race.
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