Changes to the University of California admission policy are not a deliberate attack against any ethnicity.
The changes, to be implemented in 2012, come in several parts. The most controversial aspects are the elimination of the SAT Subject Tests requirement and the decrease in guaranteed admission to 10 percent from 12.5 percent from each high school’s graduating class.
Discarding the subject tests will allow more low-income and minority students to be eligible, increasing the applicant pool and overall diversity. Meanwhile, the decrease in guaranteed admission will still ensure the highest caliber of students.
These two changes will offer automatic admission to fewer students but will allow thousands of others who were not previously eligible to be considered for UCs.
This decision is not an intentional move to discriminate against any ethnicity or subvert California’s Proposition 209, which bans affirmative action in public education.
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