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This spring the admissions committee of the University of California, Berkeley evaluated a Latino applicant whose grades and college-board scores were good but not stellar. Following Berkeley's newly redesigned admissions policy, however, the committee looked well beyond the raw numbers. The members learned that although his parents spoke only Spanish, the applicant had single-handedly found his way to a magnet school devoted to science an hour from his home. They took note of the fact that as his English improved, so had his grades. And translating for his parents, as the boy frequently did, had given...
...goal of Berkeley's new policy, which was first used to screen the freshman class that will enter this fall, is to give every applicant more attention so the best can be spotted. But Berkeley is going to that trouble for reasons beyond academic altruism. After one of the biggest affirmative-action fights anywhere in the nation, the University of California board of regents banned race as a factor in admitting this year's class. Fearing a sizable drop in minority enrollment, some supporters of the new plan hoped that the redesigned admissions criteria would sustain campus diversity, without taking...
...both California and Texas, the preliminary results of these experiments are in. And the hopes they inspired--that more minority students could be brought on board through approaches that don't address race head on--have deflated. At Berkeley minority admissions have plummeted. Of the 10,509 applicants who were offered a slot this year, only 2.4% are African American, down from 5.6% a year ago. Chicano students of Mexican descent, about 11% of the applicants accepted in 1997, made up just 6% this year. Taken together, African Americans, Native Americans and Latinos of all backgrounds, who constitute about...
What happened? At Berkeley, which saw 29,961 high school grads competing for only 8,034 spots, a major problem was just how selective the admissions process had to be. Although the new policy decreased emphasis on grades and SAT scores, both remained important. That was a handicap to many African-American and Hispanic applicants. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that in 1992 nearly 21% of college-bound, non-Hispanic whites had GPAs of 3.5 and higher, compared to just 10% of Hispanics and 4% of blacks. And 25% of non-Hispanic whites had SATs above 1100, compared...
...courts of law and public opinion, the opponents of affirmative action and diversity are winning a battle against these programs. Our nation's institutions of higher learning are being stripped bare of the diversity that makes the college experience so rich. Minority representation at the University of California at Berkeley fell from 23.1 percent in 1997 to 10.4 percent in 1998. The Los Angeles campus saw similar declines, despite having more minority applicants with strong academic credentials than in previous years...