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This may well be true, but for the benefit of the doubt I still think the UCal system should provide historic fact to support their position.

They're not excluding all or even most home-schooled or Christian schooled students, but only those who use textbooks biology textbooks put out by Bob Jones University.

Since that retrograde institution forces all of its faculty and staff to believe the universe is only 6,000 years old, it is immediately obvious that any science text it publishes will be filled with a bunch of pseudo-scientific garbage.

I have their high school Chemistry book that we used to supplement, and that was not the case at all. I've taken Chemistry more times than I care to think about (It was a toughie for me.) and I didn't find their Chemistry to be pseudo-science. I also do not necessarily agree with the idea that the universe is only 6,000 years old. I am a Christian and believe in creation but there are different schools of thought on the age of the Earth and whether evolution is occurring. I would venture to say that most Christians have a very good idea of what evolution is all about so just because it might not be taught in their school doesn't mean they don't know it. It's pretty hard to miss these days. Just because one becomes a Christian, fundamental or evangelical or whatever label you choose, doesn't mean they kiss their brains good bye. Take a look at the biographies of some of the most famous scientists of our time and you'll find that an awful lot of them at least believed in God and obviously believed in creation if they lived before Darwin. It didn't affect or diminish their contributions to modern science.