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The UC apps are online and there is no counselor’s recommendation form for them to read. Even if they did, I think few public HS counselor’s would have any idea of the personal challenges of the students due to the very high student to counselor ratio. I think any personal data, including challenges, is supposed to be in the personal statement section of the online app.</p>
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No, they’re not ‘excluded’ by UCLA. They’re not restricted by UCLA from admission. The ethnicity isn’t a factor - their academic performance (along with some other non-racial criteria) is. There’s no effort, concerted or otherwise, to exclude a segment of the population based on their race. And the question on this thread is actually the opposite of whether certain racial groups are being given a preference when by law they shouldn’t be.</p>
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So do you think a college should lower its admissions standards in order to attract ‘meaningful numbers’ of certain racial (or other) groups? If so, how much should it be lowered? Wouldn’t it make more sense to keep the academic standards at the current high level and keep admissions open to any ethnicity? Why discriminate based on race? It makes no sense.</p>