Why do UVA and Michigan have such low yields?

ucbalumnus
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:26:15 +0000

charlieschm:

The person speaking in the radio program may have said the entire U. California system, not Berkeley, or his numbers may have been wrong.



For the entire UC system, eligibility was determined by a GPA and test score chart at the time; changes in admission policies with respect to race in 1998 should theoretically have had no actual effect if the entire UC system as a whole were considered, since any race-considering policies would have simply redistributed UC eligible students to different UC campuses within the UC system.

However, the perceptions associated with the policy change likely did change who actually applied and what race boxes they checked. While this likely did change the composition of the UC systemwide student population as a whole, it is unlikely to have come anywhere near doubling the number of Asian American freshmen in 1998.