California Latinos Exceed Whites In UC Freshman Admissions

[theworldismine13]

Is it a specific college or all UCs

All UC's

 

[Calmye]

c00n

putting another black man down for wanting more for my people.... We as a people just took another L

 

[wheywhey]

California QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau

Ya'll do realize the blacks are only 6.6 % of the total population of California. So with 4.1% admission, black students are actually being accepted at a higher rate than their hispanic counterparts. If Whites are also being accepted at a lower rate relative to their population size since their acceptance rate is below that of Asians at 36% and their population is at 39.4%.

The only group really outperforming the other groups are Asians whose acceptance level is almost 3 times that of their population.
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I agree with your percentages. What people outside of California don't know is that out-of-state students and international students get preference in admissions because they are willing to pay an extra $23,000 per year in tuition. The University of California is very open about this policy. Less than 60% of the students at UCLA are from California. Californians demanded lower taxes, now their children and grandchildren can't get into the top state schools.
Admission rates fall at UC campuses as international presence grows - Education - The Sacramento Bee
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The UCs still practice affirmative action under the table even though it is illegal for public universities in California to do so. That is why the black and Hispanic percentages are so high.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/e...-california-berkeley.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

 

[wheywhey]

we have our own schools...we don't have to go to a traditionally white university. i'm saying if hbcu did not exist you would have seen that type of movement at a state university from blacks.

my only issue with hbcu is that you don't have a few willing to up the requirements in order to catch ivy league rejects instead of letting them go to top state universities. they all shouldn't have fairly low entrance requirements.

People rag on HBCUs but that is still where most blacks get STEM degrees. I recently read about a guy who graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco. Lowell is difficult to get into and is 70% Asian and 2% black. This guy could have gone to any college in the country but chose Xavier, Louisiana. He has been accepted to four medical schools including UC San Francisco which is harder to get into than Harvard.

More highly qualified students would go HBCUs, but there is very little scholarship or financial aid money. Howard just fired a couple of hundred people, Spelman eliminated their entire sports program, and public HBCUs like Grambling are hanging on by a thread. I don't know why HBCUs don't promote the STEM angle.