<p>Does anyone have information about the following questions?</p>
<p>How many Hispanics applied for fall 2009?
how many got accepted?</p>
<p>Does it matter?</p>
<p>Ethnicity is not a factor for admission to Berkeley.</p>
<p>well in a sense they probably do have an unofficial quota to fulfill.</p>
<p>UC’s cannot factor in race in admission by state law.</p>
<p>Proposition 209</p>
<p>The Admissions Office cannot select students based on factors of ethnicity or race, but since the procedures for student selection are secret, no one can officially verify if the Admissions Office is Proposition 209 compliant. So don’t eliminate the possibility entirely.</p>
<p>What I know of the application/admission distributions suggests that if it does happen, the extent isn’t significant enough to warrant concern.</p>
<p>EDIT: Unfortunately, I do not remember where I encountered these distributions, so I could be horribly, horribly wrong.</p>
<p>Hence the word “unofficial” in my statement. I still think there is a number admissions would like to reach.</p>
<p>Nothin’ like good ol’ affirmative action…</p>
<p>they black out the part on the app that says your race and such, but they get around prop 209 with the personal statement. they really dig the “I grew up in a hispanic family and overcame disadvantages and blahblahblah”</p>
<p>hahah nice one</p>
<p>go to uc merced, papi</p>
<p>please stop with the derogatory comments.
We are supposed to be an educated community.
Keep offensive opinions to yourself.
It is embarrassing that members of the UC Berkeley community actually say this on a college forum.</p>
<p>oh please, of course they consider race. There are so many “URMs” (Hispanic, Black, Filipino) here that beat out a much more qualified White or Asian person.</p>
<p>Pretend all you want, but my guess is that race plays a card in nearly every top/big name school.</p>
<p>I agree with Matt, Berkeley should be proud of it’s diverse community. It’s sad to see such racist comments on a Cal forum</p>
<p>The way low GPA/Test Score candidates get into Berkeley is through ELC [Welcome</a> to ELC](<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/sas/elc/]Welcome”>http://www.ucop.edu/sas/elc/) . Basically, if you’re in the top 4% of any high school in the state of California, you’re qualified to get into the UC system.
This is backed up by the ridiculously high HS class ranking of UC admits compared to their pitifully low average test scores. I wonder how many of these poorly prepared but qualified individuals actually get UC degrees?</p>
<p>To get this thread back on track … you can run custom queries for admission stats (by ethnicity for applicants and admits) at [University</a> of California: StatFinder](<a href=“http://statfinder.ucop.edu/statfinder/default.aspx]University”>http://statfinder.ucop.edu/statfinder/default.aspx). Fall 2009 stats are up now.</p>