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by wbraun 2148 days ago
Affirmative action in California is banned by Proposition 209, which passed in 1996.

Its great they are making an effort to boost diversity, but I don't see how a single year jump this large was accomplished without implementing affirmative action.

The UC system already has an ongoing lawsuit over affirmative action in their admission practices, it's a bit scary that they are now so blatantly violating state law.
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pmiller2 2148 days ago
Based on the article, this was done mainly through targeted outreach. Are you saying it constitutes affirmative action for a university to direct its outreach efforts toward one part of the state versus another? Note that average SAT, ACT, and GPA were unchanged from last year, so academic standards were not compromised one iota.
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tropheusduboisi 2148 days ago
If targeted outreach can yield 40% gains in year, the admissions/outreach office has been screwing up big time for the past 30 years.

It's weird they defend this dramatic admissions change by saying the SAT scores are unchanged, yet at the same time, they're getting rid of SAT scores as an admissions criteria moving forward. Are they holding back URMs or not?

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wbraun 2148 days ago
The UC system has a common application and students rarely apply to only one school. The impacts of any outreach effort should be seen across the entire UC system and not just Berkeley. Based on the data for the entire UC system, you can see that is not the case https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-plannin...

What has changed though is that UCB has a new admissions dean.

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pmiller2 2147 days ago
> The impacts of any outreach effort should be seen across the entire UC system and not just Berkeley.

You say this as if I'm just supposed to accept it, but I don't believe it. UCB, along with UCLA, are the top tier of the UC system. I don't think it's a big stretch to think that someone who might be applying to UCB wouldn't be applying to UCSD.

I'm not coming straight out and saying you're wrong here, but I am saying this is a statement that needs supporting.

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eindiran 2146 days ago
Anecdotally, I applied to only 2 UCs: Berkeley and UCSD. Several of my friends that applied to (and some of whom who attended) Berkeley and UCLA also applied to UCSD, UCSC, or UCSB.
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