<p>Someone told me that more UC's and CSU's are accepting more minority students. Is this true?</p>
<p>Well, not officially. As in they don’t have affirmative action. So they might, but I don’t know.</p>
<p>Race or ethnicity is not considered in admissions. At most CSUs, it is obvious, since they rank applicants in majors by eligibility index, which is just a formula of GPA and SAT or ACT scores. UCs are less obvious due to holistic admissions, although it is official policy not to consider race or ethnicity, but it is not impossible for an admissions reader to be influenced by race or ethnicity.</p>
<p>Of course, a campus may be accepting more students of a specific race or ethnicity if more highly qualified students of that race or ethnicity apply.</p>
<p>“Are accepting more minority students” than what? Than before? Than another school system? What is your real interest here?</p>
<p>The California legislature is working to repeal this provision now. They’d like to bring race, gender, etc back into consideration. For now - they can’t be considered.</p>
<p>Well, they are accepted more last year than the year before but no where near the amount they did 10 years ago before affirmative action was killed. Their campuses can offer more diversity than some largely because California is a diverse state. They get more minorities applying than say Nebraska. However, the public college campuses don’t represent the population of the state. </p>
<p>From a recent Sac Bee opinion peice
“It is indisputable that both in absolute numbers and percentages, minorities that attend the University of California have increased and exceed the levels of minority admissions from the pre-Prop. 209 days. At the University of California in 1996 – the last year prior to Prop. 209’s adoption – blacks accounted for 4 percent of overall admissions (1,628); in 2013 they accounted for 4.3 percent of admissions (2,705); they are approximately 6.6 percent of the California population.”</p>
<p>Read more here: <a href=“http://www.sacbee.com/2014/02/08/6138480/viewpoints-a-step-backward-on.html##storylink=cpy”>http://www.sacbee.com/2014/02/08/6138480/viewpoints-a-step-backward-on.html##storylink=cpy</a></p>
<p><a href=“[300+] Texas Wallpapers | Wallpapers.com”>[600+] California Wallpapers | Wallpapers.com;
<p><a href=“California Proposition 209: Minority Enrollments Down In UC Schools Despite Diversity Efforts | HuffPost San Francisco”>HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost;
<p>The admissions rate for UCB show that URMs, blacks, Mexicans and native americans have a higher acceptance rate than whites or asians so yes race is favored. </p>
<p>I live in Calif. Official or not, it’s considered (and may be considered more prominently again if affirmative action is brought back). African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans (these days especially the latter two) are heavily coveted. </p>
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<p>From Berkeley’s admissions website:
“Race, ethnicity, gender, and religion are excluded from the criteria.”</p>
<p>However they can and do consider socio-economic factors:
“For an applicant who has faced any hardships or unusual circumstances, readers consider the maturity, determination and insight with which the applicant has responded to and/or overcome them. Readers also consider other contextual factors that bear directly upon the applicant’s achievement, including linguistic background, parental education level, and other indicators of support available in the home.”</p>
<p><a href=“Selection Process - Office of Undergraduate Admissions”>http://admissions.berkeley.edu/selectsstudents</a></p>
<p>I think it’s yes in theory, but no in practice. At least to some degree. </p>