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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]African Americans make up 5.9 percent of California's current population (according to first article linked above), and 4 percent of overall student enrollment at UCLA (according to UCLA's own statistics).

Is that discrepancy racist?

Latinos make up 39.9 percent of California's current population (according to Wikipedia), and 28.8 percent of admitted students for the incoming class in fall 2014 (according to the Daily Bruin article linked above).

Is that discrepancy racist?

Together, African American and Latino students made up almost 34 percent of students admitted to the incoming class of fall 2014 (some percentage of these, my child among them, decided not to attend UCLA, because they were admitted to other competitive schools,  so actual enrollment is substantially less).  Asian Americans make up another 33 percent of admitted students.  So, a grand total of almost 67 percent of students admitted to UCLA for fall of 2014 are Asian American, Latino, or African American.

Is UCLA diverse?  Is it racist?

Finally, California voters passed a proposition that does not allow affirmative action considerations in the admissions process to California public colleges and universities.  The Democratic supermajority legislature in California revisited the issue last spring, and decided to leave it as is.[/quote]Either UCLA's stats are incorrect or the Daily Bruin.  I elect to go with UCLA's as posted on their website for their Fall 2014 admit.[/quote]

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