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[quote=Anonymous][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]

The discrepancy comes from the number of admitted students, versus the number of students who actually enroll.  For example, my Latino student was admitted to both Cal and UCLA, but decided to attend a top Ivy instead.

The (UCLA) Bruin article states that 28.8 percent of students admitted to the incoming class of 2014 were Latino.  Some not-insignificant percentage of those admitted Latino students decided - like my child - not to attend UCLA, but to attend another competitive college or university.

Similarly, although 4 percent of students currently enrolled are African American, there was some not-insignificant, and greater percentage (perhaps greater than 5.9%?) of African American students who were admitted to UCLA, but declined the offer in favor of another competitive college or university.  [/quote]

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