Why do UVA and Michigan have such low yields?

ucbalumnus
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:03:16 +0000

charlieschm:

I heard on NPR’s Fresh Air yesterday that when a law went into effect in California limiting affirmative action in admissions, UC Berkeley’s Asian student population doubled.



From 1997 to 1998 (when Proposition 209 affected UC admissions), Asian American (including Filipino and Pacific Islander) freshmen enrollment at Berkeley increased from 1,465 to 1,565 (total freshman enrollment went from 3,557 to 3,722, so Asian American freshmen increased from 41% to 42% of the total), according to [University of California: StatFinder](http://statfinder.ucop.edu) . The biggest change for 1998 was for Unknown, from 186 to 539 (from 5% to 14% of the total).