<p>I'm concerned about the persistent institutional bias against male applicants at the UC. How about, "But at Riverside, administrators say they have worked hard over the last decade to reach out to eligible male applicants, giving financial aid packages to promising students such as Guy, and creating gender-based programs to assist male students once they enroll."</p>
<p>You know about black admissions...they say that only 2% are black, vs 6% of population...but what percentage of blacks apply in the first place? If only 2% of the applicants are black, and 40% of the applicants to berkely are asian, then it'd make perfect sense for the ratios to be like that. Then it's not a matter of enforcing strict percentages of each race, but to encourage more urms to apply.</p>
<p>calmom,</p>
<p>Now, I don't live in California, but a glance at Berkeley's page on College Board reveals that while Asians are the largest racial group, their percentage is still less than 51%, therefore, they are minorities at that campus.</p>
<p>I really don't see how any students are being discriminated against in U.C. admissions. The numbers don't look anything like pre-1954 numbers.</p>
<p>If Hispanic and Black students "end up clustered" at Riverside in race-blind admissions, then Riverside is just one of their options.</p>
<p>It's not de facto discrimination when so many qualified students get rejected from Harvard, so why use that phrase to describe the (relatively) low percentage of "under-represented" minorities at Berkeley?</p>
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<p>Sixteen "under-represented" students out of 100 doesn't seem like de facto discrimination to me.</p>
<p>I hope California will continue to keep racism out of the admissions process for the state schools. To think that race alone qualifies or disqualifies one for anything is wrong. I can understand some of the arguments related to holistic admissions and agree that GPA/SAT scores don't give the whole picture but none of those arguments are related to race.</p>
<p>"Yeah, that baffled me, too - could it mean regular high school classes in the "college prep" track? Do high schools categorize their class offerings that way any more? They did when dinosaurs roamed ..."</p>
<p>"College Prep" is generally used in contrast to vocational training. I'm sure the article was referring to the UC System's "A-G" requirements.</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know whether the article referred to UC GPA vs. the high school's own weighted/unweighted GPA? A UC GPA of 4.0 is much easier to achieve than one falling under the general guidelines, as the UC System weights most Honors courses taken within CA, in addition to the traditional weights for AP and IB courses. In addition, UC GPAs are only cumulative for the 10th & 11th grade years.</p>