Why I'm slightly afraid to attend a UC this fall
Duh.
It's a stunning statistic. At UCLA, the incoming freshman class will be only two percent Black. That's right. Two percent African American. The decline is a result of Proposition 209 which eliminated race in the admissions process.
According to the LA times there are only 96 African American undergrad frosh out of a class of 4,852.
2%
NPR's article
Life and Times transcript
So what are people really saying about this latest upset in College Admissions?
The achievement level of African American students at a UC school are affected by a variety of factors and UCLA has absolutely no right nor responsibility to take those results into account when they are admitting their students.
Or
Now it's true that they've (the black students) been redistributed from Berkeley and UCLA to some of the other UC campuses, but that's actually a good thing for the students involved because that means that there's a smaller academic gap between a typical minority student going to a UC school and his classmates. There's a lot of research indicating that students do worse when they're in an environment where their credentials are really mismatched with those of their classmates.
If there's a big academic gap between Black students and white students, Black students have less chance of graduating and they're less likely to stick with things like Science majors where the competition is harder. So having those students redistributed as we've seen over the last several years from the so-called flagship schools (UCLA, Berkley) to some of the less elite schools (any other UC) is a positive thing. It's not something that we should be ranting about.
Ah I see.
What we ought to focus on is what's happening in the UC system as a whole, which is an incredibly encouraging positive story. We ought to be focusing on the great job UCLA is doing in reaching out to low-income students and, most importantly, to address the things that you're concerned about, we ought to address fixing K-12 and trying to bridge this minority white gap in achievement.
Thank God, I am a minority in America. Thank you UCLA, and screw you Occidental for trying to diversify my education.
WTF is a 'typical minority student' anyways, you racist fuckwad ? We're not all poor and undereducated you know.
It's a stunning statistic. At UCLA, the incoming freshman class will be only two percent Black. That's right. Two percent African American. The decline is a result of Proposition 209 which eliminated race in the admissions process.
According to the LA times there are only 96 African American undergrad frosh out of a class of 4,852.
2%
NPR's article
Life and Times transcript
So what are people really saying about this latest upset in College Admissions?
The achievement level of African American students at a UC school are affected by a variety of factors and UCLA has absolutely no right nor responsibility to take those results into account when they are admitting their students.
Or
Now it's true that they've (the black students) been redistributed from Berkeley and UCLA to some of the other UC campuses, but that's actually a good thing for the students involved because that means that there's a smaller academic gap between a typical minority student going to a UC school and his classmates. There's a lot of research indicating that students do worse when they're in an environment where their credentials are really mismatched with those of their classmates.
If there's a big academic gap between Black students and white students, Black students have less chance of graduating and they're less likely to stick with things like Science majors where the competition is harder. So having those students redistributed as we've seen over the last several years from the so-called flagship schools (UCLA, Berkley) to some of the less elite schools (any other UC) is a positive thing. It's not something that we should be ranting about.
Ah I see.
What we ought to focus on is what's happening in the UC system as a whole, which is an incredibly encouraging positive story. We ought to be focusing on the great job UCLA is doing in reaching out to low-income students and, most importantly, to address the things that you're concerned about, we ought to address fixing K-12 and trying to bridge this minority white gap in achievement.
Thank God, I am a minority in America. Thank you UCLA, and screw you Occidental for trying to diversify my education.
WTF is a 'typical minority student' anyways, you racist fuckwad ? We're not all poor and undereducated you know.