<p><a href=“re:” title=“negative action”>quote=fabrizio</a></p>
<p>You may say that the experience of the UCs post-209 has little to nothing to do with private elites. But that doesn’t answer why the percentage of Asians did rise at Berkeley and UCLA after 1996.
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<p>Did the percentage of Asians, or the admissions rate of Asians, or the number of Asians admitted, in fact, go up at Berkeley when compared to whites? Are the changes in the relative white/Asian numbers unusual compared to the the natural annual fluctuations in the years post-209?</p>
<p>UC Statfinder has the data readily available. </p>
<p>Ratios for California residents, freshman fall admission, 1994 to 2009:</p>
<p>Ratio of Asian / White admission rates:
0.892 0.859 0.864 0.925 0.925 0.973 0.940 0.939 0.970 0.985 0.937 0.990 1.039 1.015 1.026 1.000</p>
<p>Ratio of Asian / White number of admitted students:
1.115 1.003 1.009 1.077 1.175 1.137 1.163 1.191 1.222 1.211 1.165 1.186 1.328 1.238 1.217 1.228</p>
<p>Ratio of Asian / White number of enrolled students
1.455 1.302 1.363 1.496 1.561 1.470 1.530 1.588 1.652 1.604 1.476 1.614 1.670 1.574 1.584 1.425</p>
<p>I can’t find a clear statement online of what the first year of prop.209 was. The black/hispanic numbers dropped to half their previous levels in fall 1998 so I am guessing that is the first year of implementation of Prop.209. Notice that the ratio of Asian to white admission rates stayed exactly the same (0.925) from 1997 to 1998…</p>
<p>There is an erratic but noticeable trend of increases since 1998 at Berkeley in all three series of Asian/white ratios of admission rate, admitted number and enrollment count. Given the effectively race-neutral admission during that time, this is due mostly to demographic changes, with Asians in California growing both in number and apparently in admissions qualification compared to whites. The latter could be due to increasing verbal scores as the proportion of native-born or US-raised Asians grows among second generation immigrants.</p>
<p>[UC</a> Berkeley Fall Enrollment Data](<a href=“http://opa.berkeley.edu/institutionaldata/archiveenroll.htm#one]UC”>http://opa.berkeley.edu/institutionaldata/archiveenroll.htm#one)</p>
<p>[University</a> of California: StatFinder](<a href=“http://statfinder.ucop.edu/statfinder]University”>http://statfinder.ucop.edu/statfinder)</p>