<p>New</a> UC admissions policy angers Asians - Race & ethnicity- msnbc.com</p>
<p>Raaaaaaaaage.</p>
<p>I am pakistani, not oriential asian persay, however, if asians are going down what about my race? How will that be affected according to these bull s hit policies? I mean I don’t mean to be slanderous on a public forum, but please? I know it always annoyed me when my father said this, but he came to this country because an individual who worked the hardest would have the highest chance to achieve in society, and I guess this is a different country than the one my father came to over thirty years ago. (Unfortunately) This policy is terrible, and I hope a UC admissions officer is reading this, because if there was a policy basically maiming college admissions for south asians, I would move out of this unfair country.</p>
<p>This doesn’t seem as race-based as I’d assumed from the headlines.</p>
<p>Not really raced based at all.</p>
<p>Agreed^
But since many, many Asians get in based on stats alone, this policy of decreasing the importance of stats will probably cause a decrease in % of Asian Americans admitted.
Are there any more sites/links for more information on this?</p>
<p>Though the policy is not race-based on paper and possibly not even targeted at asians, but based on projections from a study done by UC itself, the new admission policy will cut the enrollment of asian american students by as much as 20%.</p>
<p>Since this isn’t raced based at all… I’d say the headline was created just to get more readers/viewers and thus more money… gotta love the media.</p>
<p>The title and presentation is a bit misleading as many people have said, but I wonder how the new policy will “make the process more fair.”</p>
<p>The ones who work the hardest and meet the challenges should be rewarded… IMO, all these minority actions are BS. Im sorry If I offended anyone, but that is just my opinion.</p>
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I’ve always agreed with this…but I’ve come to realize that the world in which we live in is not that simple…if only it was…</p>
<p>And those who “work the hardest” often haven’t worked at the social skills needed to get by in this world…</p>
<p>Most often the people who “work the hardest” are those who are also participating in numerous leadership positions and juggle multiple ECs on top of APs. How would they be able to earn their leadership positions if they did not have the appropriate social skills?</p>
<p>the 2 are not mutually exclusive. believe it or not, it is possible to be incredibly smart and incredibly social.</p>
<p>I like this policy.</p>
<p>Colleges are the only ones that can rightfully determine who is “qualified” to gain acceptance to them, assuming they make such a decision legally.</p>
<p>If people are whining because colleges are changing their admissions criteria, they should find a new college to apply to. Christ. I don’t see how this is unfair at all.</p>
<p>ALERT!</p>
<p>Did you guys READ the article?</p>
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<p>It just appears like the admissions process for the UC system as a whole will be somewhat less tied to test scores, more lax concerning high school prerequisites, and more competitive because there will simply be more freshmen applicants.</p>
<p>Nothing under the new guidelines specifically targets Asian or enhances the chances of whites.</p>
<p>Only this prematurely inflammatory source makes this assertion:</p>
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Have there been statistically rigorous teststo back up this claim? I doubt it.</p>
<p>USA TODAY and other media sources are obviously to blame for picking up on an obnoxious story just to boost readership. They are probably being aided and abetted by some insecure paranoid gasbags who have to find something to do as leaders of various ethnic advocacy organizations.</p>
<p>Reminds me of the numerous articles in the LA Times concerning the paucity of blacks on the UCLA campus. They are just catchy race baiting articles that make you want to buy and read the stupid newspaper.</p>
<p>That said, I could see how there might be some negative effects on students who may rely largely on quantitative assessments to set them apart from peers during the admissions process. It does appear that new applicants will be judged in a more qualitative manner.</p>
<p>"Asian-Americans are the single largest ethnic group among UC’s 173,000 undergraduates. In 2008, they accounted for 40 percent at UCLA and 43 percent at UC Berkeley the two most selective campuses in the UC system as well as 50 percent at UC San Diego and 54 percent at UC Irvine.</p>
<p>Asian-Americans are about 12 percent of California’s population and 4 percent of the U.S. population overall."</p>
<p>So what is the problem? It seems that Asians are the majority of the poplulation at top UC’s but only 12% of California’s population so the UC’s do not reflect the total population of the state as they should. Diverse means diverse and it should include all ethnicities not heavily one or the other. People are more than numbers, and I personally like the holistic approach UCLA and Cal use as it looks at the “whole person” in context of what is available to them and how they have used their opportunites to their advantage. Since there is such a variation in terms of academics at public high schools in our state, not to mention those that can afford private high school, etc., the colleges need to look beyond GPA’s and SAT’s. It is true that the holistic approach is more subjective but a lot of kids do amazing things and overcome incredible odds along with having decent stats and these kids deserve a chance to be looked at, it doesn’t matter what ethnic background they have. Maybe the UC’s should just do away with names on the apps and only use ID numbers, that would make it even more fair and they wouldn’t necessarily know if your a Johnson, Garcia or Wang.</p>
<p>Isn’t race based, but then again look who did it, MSNBC. AKA biased even more than Fox News for leftism. </p>
<p>I like the policy, if it results in less Asians so what…they can branch out and get more than good tests and GPA.</p>
<p>I still find it absurd that people can say, “Oh it’s not fair that those damned minorities didn’t work hard!” I mean, of course it’s not all that are impoverished, but for the low-income ones, saying they didn’t work hard enough is like scolding a person with an injured leg for not walking fast enough. </p>
<p>Not to mention, personality is can get you far. That is all I can say.</p>