Dark clouds, silver linings: Californian higher education. (the resulting minority admissions to the California state university system since the elimination of affirmative action)

Economist (US), The, April, 1998

LOS ANGELES

THE doors of the University of California, the country's premier public university, are being slammed shut on racial minorities, thanks to the state's ban on race-based discrimination. The number of blacks admitted to the University of California's flagship campus at Berkeley fell by 57% this year-the first year in which students are being admitted without regard to race-and the number of Latinos by 40%, according to statistics released on March 31st. The figures for the University of California at Los Angeles were almost as dismal: a 43% fall for blacks and a 33% fall for Latinos. Even minority students with excellent grade point averages and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores of 1,200 and above have ended up with rejection slips.

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