You think there must be a typo in the headline to this post, don’t you? There isn’t.
According to an Associated Press story now appearing, budget cuts have forced the University of California system to reduce admissions for next by 7 percent overall. “Meanwhile, black admissions dropped 15 percent, worrying administrators.” That decline, however, is no doubt related to what Susan Wilbur, UC’s director of undergraduate admissions, acknowledged, namely that “applicatons from black students were also down.”
The number of minority admits was down, but their proportion actually increased.
All major ethnic groups saw declines in admissions and looking at overall totals, blacks, Hispanics and American Indians increased very slightly as a proportion of overall admits, from 19.8 percent last year to 20 percent.
But UC Chancellor Robert Berdahl was not pleased.
On Tuesday, Chancellor Robert Berdahl issued a statement calling the 2004 admissions figures for his campus “flat-out unacceptable.” Berdahl, who is retiring at the end of the school year, said he will spend the rest of his term trying to find ways to increase the number of underrepresented students who apply.
I am sure that you share my confidence that as he proceeds with this task race will be only “one of many factors” Berdahl will take into account.
“On Tuesday, Chancellor Robert Berdahl issued a statement calling the 2004 admissions figures for his campus “flat-out unacceptable.” Berdahl, who is retiring at the end of the school year, said he will spend the rest of his term trying to find ways to increase the number of underrepresented students who apply.”
If seventh-graders apply will they get in because they are “underrepresented”?
Or Wino-Americans?