University of California OKs a 'Radical' Admissions Change

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American will compete against Asians, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc,in 21st Century. Competing against Asian American students in CA may be good training for future competition, If rest of Californian feel uncomfortable because Asian students have better work ethics. Please let me assure all of you, Asian kid in CA are not as hard working as those kids in real Asia. May I call them Asian light. If we cannot compete agiast Asian light without compromising academic standards, I wonder how those kid will compete against real ones.

peter of CA 8:58PM April 28, 2009

I work at a college as a counselor and I find it very unfair that all students who attended a High School in California (regardless of legal status) can attain a spot at the UC's over a student who has legal status in this state (country). This is an unfair practice as the UC's are very hard to get into (most) and some CSU's (Long Beach) are also competive. I think AB540 is a great benefit for students but there should be in place a selection process that picks from High School students and Transfer Students based on legal status over not having legal status. Sorry but where is the justice...in being an American? FYI: I'm Latina but fair is fair.

Lisa of CA 5:10PM February 09, 2009

I work at a college as a counselor and I find it very unfair that all students who attended a High School in California (regardless of legal status) can attain a spot at the UC's over a student who has legal status in this state (country). This is an unfair practice as the UC's are very hard to get into (most) and some CSU's (Long Beach) are also competive. I think AB540 is a great benefit for students but there should be in place a selection process that picks from High School students and Transfer Students based on legal status over not having legal status. Sorry but where is the justice...in being an American? FYI: I'm Latina but fair is fair.

Lisa of CA 5:10PM February 09, 2009

I work at a college as a counselor and I find it very unfair that all students who attended a High School in California (regardless of legal status) can attain a spot at the UC's over a student who has legal status in this state (country). This is an unfair practice as the UC's are very hard to get into (most) and some CSU's (Long Beach) are also competive. I think AB540 is a great benefit for students but there should be in place a selection process that picks from High School students and Transfer Students based on legal status over not having legal status. Sorry but where is the justice...in being an American? FYI: I'm Latina but fair is fair.

Lisa of CA 5:10PM February 09, 2009

I work at a college as a counselor and I find it very unfair that all students who attended a High School in California (regardless of legal status) can attain a spot at the UC's over a student who has legal status in this state (country). This is an unfair practice as the UC's are very hard to get into (most) and some CSU's (Long Beach) are also competive. I think AB540 is a great benefit for students but there should be in place a selection process that picks from High School students and Transfer Students based on legal status over not having legal status. Sorry but where is the justice...in being an American? FYI: I'm Latina but fair is fair.

Lisa of CA 5:09PM February 09, 2009

I work at a college as a counselor and I find it very unfair that all students who attended a High School in California (regardless of legal status) can attain a spot at the UC's over a student who has legal status in this state (country). This is an unfair practice as the UC's are very hard to get into (most) and some CSU's (Long Beach) are also competive. I think AB540 is a great benefit for students but there should be in place a selection process that picks from High School students and Transfer Students based on legal status over not having legal status. Sorry but where is the justice...in being an American? FYI: I'm Latina but fair is fair.

Lisa of CA 5:09PM February 09, 2009

I'm tired of the demand that poor kids have the same access to higher education as us so-called "wealthy" people. If the freeloaders of society want to go to college then they should work for a few years and save money to pay for it. My daughter pays full tuition at UCSB so the freeloaders can get a free ride. Going to college is a privilege, not a right. Just the same as being able to live in a nice neighborhood. Don't make the middle class pay for kids whose parents should invest in better birth control. We are tired of paying for it!

Susan Miller of CA 5:08PM February 09, 2009

This has been in the works at UC for a while. UC thinks that lowering the standards will create more flexibility in admitting minorities. It's not needed. The current standards are fairly broad and provide wide discretion in acceptence; if you meet the "standards" you are in the pool, and the committee can evaluate non-SAT and non-grade items (e.g. overcoming economic hardship, troubled neighborhood, etc), that allow weighting in favor of students with lower numbers. UC has never had an "over-reliance" on SAT scores. For at least a decade, the official position is that the best guide is a combination of grades and scores, such that a person with good grades but light scores is likely to be admitted over one with good scores and light grades. Once you drop the standards, however, you create the likelihood that only a few more minorities will be admitted, and they will be the ones with lowest scores/grades, and thus, more likely to fail at UC or UCLA or SD or SB, when they might flourish at another school
Also, check the numbers, the University will almost DOUBLE the amount of review they will be giving in order to admit the same number of students. A waste of money that the State does not have.

John McD of CA 5:04PM February 09, 2009

Once again the UC back-slides to "level the playing field" and accomodate less qualified students.

IMA Parent of CA 5:01PM February 09, 2009

I think along with changing the freshman entrance into the UC's (ie, SATs/ETS) the UC system and CSU system SHOULD admit California (legal status) students first.

Lisa of CA 5:00PM February 09, 2009