<p>UCLA already does admit every which kind of student, if ethnicity is what we are talking about. But when we look at UCLA’s yield, </p>
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<p>[Now</a>, ticket to UCLA rides on bigger picture - Los Angeles Times](<a href=“http://articles.latimes.com/2007/mar/27/local/me-admit27]Now”>Now, ticket to UCLA rides on bigger picture) </p>
<p>how do we know that UCLA’s problem isn’t really that its top admitted students would rather enroll at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, or even (horrors!) Berkeley or USC? Maybe the strongest students admitted to UCLA aren’t appearing in UCLA’s statistics of enrolled students because they are enrolled students somewhere else. </p>
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<p>There is some question about whether UCLA’s recent admission practice may be restricting the entrance (I presume you mean “admission”) of Asian-American students. That’s an issue worth looking into. I think one professor who is familiar with the UCLA admission process, namely the one mentioned in the thread-opening post in this thread, has asked for information about this issue that so far has not been forthcoming from the UCLA administration. </p>
<p>California may indeed have some severe problems in K-12 education that differentially influence “the ability to succeed in college” of various students unequally among ethnic groups. But it’s hard to make the case that UCLA treats anyone unfairly by regarding “the ability to succeed in college” as long as it is one of the more selective campuses in a statewide system that includes many higher education campuses with open admission policies.</p>