UCLA Accused of Illegally Using Race in Admissions

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Certain racial populations aren’t ‘excluded’ from the UCLA campus. To be excluded means to be prohibited from being on the campus and this isn’t happening on the basis of race.

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<p>To be excluded also means to be prevented or restricted from entrance. If the standards used for admission do not exist in meaningful numbers within certain racial groups, then they are in fact effectively excluded from entrance to UCLA.</p>

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If achievement is what colleges are looking for, or at least what colleges like UCLA are looking for, why should any college presuppose any distribution of student characteristics other than achievement in the context of opportunities?

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<p>I am refuting UCLA’s (pre-holistic) standards for assessing “achievement.” The racial composition of nearly every other university in the top 100 proves that there are ways to assess achievement that both predict a student’s success in college, and result in the admission of students of every race.</p>