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...Stanford inquiry discovered that between 1982 and 1985 Asian Americans were one-third less likely than whites to be offered admission, despite the fact that they showed on average better academic credentials. Just last month, a court found Berkeley Law School guilty of illegally discriminating against qualified Asian applicants in favor of other, under-represented minorities. Harvard, too, was investigated last year--although later cleared--for charges of having discriminatory admissions practices that unfairly disadvantaged Asian Americans...
...fewer than 116 Blacks scored over 699 on the verbal SAT, and fewer than 342 scored over 699 on the math section. Fewer than 3000 Black students scored over 599 on either section, not nearly enough to give Blacks proportional representation at elite colleges nationwide. In 1988 Berkeley alone accepted over 800 Blacks as part of the class...
...number of schools on the West Coast offer concentrations in ethnic studies as well. At the University of California at Berkeley, a Council for Ethnic Studies Curricula oversees all ethnic studies disciplines...
...Berkeley offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in ethnic, Asian-American, Chicano and Native American studies. African-American studies is a separate department. The ethnic studies major is a combination of at least three ethnic focuses...
...makes people aware of who they are and who other people are," said Elizabeth M. Megino, an academic advisor in the Berkeley ethnic studies department. "It's important that people know about other cultures so they can get along with them...