Minority admissions are up across UC system, but not Berkeley. Its student paper is worried. | The College Fix

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ANALYSIS:The paper literally does the meme — ‘Minority students hit hardest in selective UC Berkeley admissions’

Student admissions in the <a href="https://jiuniversity.com/despite-trumps-visa-crackdown-chinese-students-vie-for-us-university-spots/” title=”Despite Trump’s visa crackdown, Chinese students vie for US university spots”>University of California system for the coming school year “as a whole” increased for African American, Latino, and Asian Californians, but such was not the case at UC Berkeley

According to the its student paper The Daily Californian, minority applicants have been “hit hardest” by the school’s increasingly selective admissions

The paper reports a “record-breaking” 251,907 people applied to UC Berkeley for the coming year, but only 10.5 percent were admitted. Black enrollment dipped 18 percent from the previous year, while “Latine/Latinx/Chicanx” (the paper uses all three terms for “Latino/Hispanic”) dropped 9.8 percent

On the other hand, Asian enrollment increased (one percent), as did “Asian URM” (“under-represented minority” Asians such as Laotian and Hmong, 14 percent), and Pacific Islander (eight percent)

In addition, UC Berkeley admits more international students than other UC schools

OiYan Poon, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “race scholar” who served as an “equity” adviser to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, told the paper UC Berkeley’s enrollment figures are “a deep concern.”

“California is a very diverse state, and if other campuses are able to find talent out there regardless of background, (UC) Berkeley really should be able to do that too,” Poon said

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Associated Students of University of California President Margaret Solomon, an immigrant from Nigeria who came to the U.S. illegally at age nine, said UC Berkeley “didn’t interact” much with her high school located in the “Latine Inland Empire.”

“I think it’s very important that we send recruiters to different communities all around, especially … places that might not be feeder schools or places that might have students … that aren’t really excited about a certain college,” she said

Interestingly, if the drop in UC Berkeley white student enrollment is taken into account, the difference in minority admissions decline comes toa total ofunder 200 students; that is, the total decrease of black, Latino, and Native American students (385) vs. the total increase of Asian, Asian “URM,” Pacific Islander (66) anddecrease of white students (125)

This difference doesn’t account for applicants who elected not to select a race/ethnicity (the “unknown” category used by UC, which UC Berkeley itself sometimes labels “No Response” or “Decline to State,” and applies to over 2,300 applicants according to the Daily Californian chart)

It also should be noted the UC system assigns a race category to applicants who choose more than one race/ethnicity — and does so in this order: African American, Chicano, Latino, American Indian, Asian, Pacific Islander, white, and then “unknown.”

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Source: www.thecollegefix.com