Collegemom16:
I would like to point out a discrepancy in the way information has been provided. Looking at the footnote below the ELC charts, one can read:
“Represents the proportion of ELC applicants in the total admitted pool.”
This footnote explains that the percentages listed in the ELC table of the Fall 2008 California Freshman Admit Profile represent the percent of admitted students who are ELC students. For example, UCI’s Fall 2008 stats lists 27.4%. This means that 27.4% of the 20,000 students admitted into UCI are ELC students. Please refer to the following table below for more information.
ELC % of CA. admits || # of Apps Admitted || # of ELC Students Admitted
UCB 58.2 || 10387 || 6045
UCLA 57.0 || 12574 || 7167
UCSD 42.4 || 19010 || 8060
UCD 32.6 || 21256 || 6929
UCSB 29.8 || 23166 || 6903
UCI 27.4 || 20587 || 5640
UCR 11.1 || 16816 || 1866
UCSC 8.9 || 20267 || 1803
UCM 8.5 || 8544 || 726
(In case one does not believe this correction, I would like to emphasize the choice of words in the footnote and in the Introducing the University PDF files. In the PDF files, it specifically says "ELC Student Admit Rate." This obviously means the admit rate of ELC student applicants. Please refer to the following link for the ITU PDF file.
http://www.universityofcalifornia.ed...ssions/ITU.pdf)
It is true that the University of California have a goal of trying to accept students from various socio-economic backgrounds since it is a public institution. All of the UCs are still under one office and try to create an equal field for all students when it comes to admissions. It is a goal of America to provide everyone with equal opportunity hence disability programs and such, although not all are perfect. In fact, there are many projects inside each school trying to reach out to certain communities. I’ve personally glanced at documents of strategies and plans to recruit applicants from certain areas. (There are even comprehensive plans for recruiting NorCal UCI admits since there is a noticeable difference in socal and norcal students!) If you Google and search around, you can find the plans for any UC.