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Prospective University of California students can breathe a sigh
of relief after Wednesday’s Board of Regents meeting, where
the Committee on Educational Policy voted 13-2 to use comprehensive
review in the admissions process.
Comprehensive review ensures the examination of multiple
measures of achievement and promise ““ not just grades and
test scores ““ to evaluate a UC candidate. It considers the
context in which students were able to achieve, assessing whether
“life challenges” negatively affected students’
academic performance.
The entirety of the Board of Regents will vote on comprehensive
review today, deciding whether it will become official UC policy,
and will likely approve it.
Approving comprehensive review would be a victory for many
students, since their academic performance will be defined by more
than just test scores and GPA, which carry with them significant
bias ““ one resulting from socioeconomic inequality and
noticeable disparity in the quality of K-12 education.
It is critical that UCLA uphold its commitment to comprehensive
review. Chancellor Albert Carnesale must ensure sufficient funding
is allocated to hire the required number of readers necessary to
implement comprehensive review if the regents approve it regardless
of budget problems.
The regents’ accepting comprehensive review is another
step in a long journey to making the admissions process fairer and
more representative of California’s population and
demographics.