Word: dropping
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...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 account of race per se, after the ban went into effect...
...proponents are eagerly waving them like a bloody shirt. At two elite University of California campuses, Berkeley and UCLA, black and Hispanic admissions are down significantly. On the basis of admissions, the number of black freshmen at Berkeley will decline 57% from 1997; the number of Hispanics, 40%. The drop at UCLA is 43% for blacks, 33% for Hispanics...
...eight campuses, not two. How are blacks and Hispanics doing overall? University officials did not see fit to release the numbers until two days later, with the predictable result that the full story--the mitigating story--was buried. It turned out that at the University of California, the drop was far less dramatic: for blacks, not 57% but 17.6%; for Hispanics...
True, there was a significant drop in non-Asian minority admissions to the two most competitive UC schools. But there was a countervailing increase in such admissions at the less competitive schools. At UC Riverside, for example, there was a 34% increase in black admissions and a 43% increase in Hispanic admissions...
...Berkeley don't make it. Under the new color-blind system, yes, the black freshman class is cut roughly in half (hence the headlines). What will happen to the less advanced half--those who didn't qualify academically and would probably have ended up among the 42% that drop out? They will likely end up at other UC campuses where they should do very well...