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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many lame excuses for plain and simple racism on this thread. Sad! [/quote]

I thought California universities were race blind?

He got (almost) shut out because there were many other better-qualified kids from his HS. [/quote]

They are officially, but there was some analysis done last few cycles and what’s happening is that UC schools are targeting heavily minority schools vs schools in more affluent areas that are primarily white and asian.  This can be done without “considering” race in the application.  And now that they’ve eliminated tests completely, it gives them more leeway.  The California schools are doing what many schools said they would do after AA was struck down; they’re emphasizing first generation, and geographic diversity to get the proportion of URM students they want.  Some of the changes were really striking. At many top performing schools the percentage of kids accepted to the top UC schools went from ~40% to ~15%.  Conversely the rate at lower performing schools had the opposite change.[/quote]

No, UC is a state school system that wants to get a proportion of students from across California. [/quote]

No true. The person you responded to was correct. There is no “proportionality”  rule. They want geographic diversity, true, but not at the expensive of ethnic diversity. [/quote]

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