[flowerplough]

"For many, the culprit is Proposition 209, the 1996 anti-affirmative-action bill backed by former UC Regent Ward Connerly, which made it illegal to use race-based preferences in admissions..."

Blacks need preferences???

I ask again, isn't Affirmative Action primarily free things for melanin and estrogen?

[Myrddin]

The UC system reserved 5% of the entrance slots for affirmative action before prop 209 made it illegal. A full 87% of the people admitted under affirmative action dropped out the first year. Less that 2% ever made it to graduation day. The 5% carved out to accomodate affirmative action caused many highly qualified candidates of the wrong color to be rejected. It was a terrible failure as a program. If you can meet the academic standards to get into the school, color will not be an impediment to your admission. If you don't meet the standards, your fellow students will shred you academically. The affirmative action preference stops at the admissions office. The students and professors will not cut you any slack.

[kittymyrib]

What is the percentage of Asian students? Some how they missed that ethnic group. It's tough having to admit that one group is obviously superior to the rest.

[Political Junkie Too]

Of nearly 10,000 black students who graduated from Los Angeles County high schools this past June, just 1 percent will attend UCLA... This year, black enrollment at UCLA will be the lowest in more than three decades—a 57 percent decline since 1996.

Is the proper statistic for this article enrollment or applications? Do we know what the black application rate was this year vs. the acceptance rate vs. the actual enrollment rate?

-PJ