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Drop in Underrepresented Minorities Admitted
to UCB and UCLA In
what is being described as the most competitive selection
process in the University’s history, this
year’s admission of students to the freshman class,
the first undergraduate class admitted without the
consideration of race, ethnicity or gender, is under
intense scrutiny. The results so far, from the Berkeley
and Los Angeles campuses -- the two largest in the UC
system -- have shown a drop in admissions for
underrepresented minorities.
UC Berkeley has seen a
54.7 percent drop in the proportion of underrepresented
minorities admitted to the campus in 1998 compared to
1997. African Americans, Chicanos, Latinos and American
Indians together comprise 10.4 percent of the total pool
of students admitted to Berkeley this year.
UCLA admitted a total of
1,327 applicants identifying themselves as either African
American, Chicano/Latino or American Indian, compared
with 2,066 for fall 1997 -– down 739 students. Among
African Americans, there was a 42.6 percent decrease in
the number of students admitted to UCLA. Of the 4,063
Chicanos/Latinos who applied for this fall, 1,001 were
accepted. This year, 194 American Indians applied to UCLA
and 46 were admitted, a 43 percent drop from fall 1997
when 157 American Indians applied and 81 were admitted.
1st appeared 4/2/98
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