[AQGeiger]

It's not that they're not applying. It's that minorities are, in inreasing proportions, attending other schools in the UC system that are not quite so rigorous. What makes the difference is that they are completing their educations and graduating in greater numbers because they are at schools that are better matched to their abilities. So while there are less minorities at Berkley, more blacks are actually completing their educations due to being at schools that are better matched for them.

[Fenris6]

"It's not that they're not applying. It's that minorities are, in inreasing proportions, attending other schools in the UC system that are not quite so rigorous"

Bingo! The African-American community has figured out that affirmative action programs tend to mis-place blacks into 1st Tier Universities where they have trouble surviving academically. Its a trickle down effect too. Kids that could be successful at a State University are being sucked up into Harvard, where they fail. This opens up slots back at the State University, where kids who would perform better at a local community college are being suckered into throwing down a few grand just to get remedial courses that the Public Education Plantation failed to teach to them. I went back to school and needed to take a remedial math course - almost my entire class was minority.

Its not their fault either - the plantation called Public Education (run by the Teacher's Union) has failed Black America. They see the solution as pulling their kids out of Democratic Slavery and into private schools or home schools.