Affirmative Action

sybbie719
Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:26:49 +0000

Asians are represented highly in the UC system because there are a lot of them in California and they are the best students there.

Surely you realize the the UC like most large public university are usually simply a numbers driven approach to admissions where as smaller more selective schools use a holistic approach to admissions because there is more to a student than the numbers and look deeper than just the score on a 3 hour test. They do take into consideration that there are multiple intelligences that do not always translate to pen an paper fillin the bubbl e exams. These schools are building a class where they feel an athlete, a musician, an artist, someone who grew up on the farm and the poor inner city black kid all have something important to bring to the table.