UC Increases Californians’ Admission Rate
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ELVIN CHAU
Staff Writer
On April 4, the University of California (UC) administration announced the admission of 15 percent more California students, particularly Latinos and African Americans. According to FOX 5 News, the impact of the change in the admissions has grown substantially.
“Learning about this announcement of UCs admitting more students to apply the college is really cool to hear,” senior Julian Rubio said.
According to preliminary data, the increase of 8,488 admissions is the largest jump to the UC system ever since 1944.
“I think it is a great idea that UC [admitting] more students because it would make the students happy to be in a college and get a degree from it,” senior Jose Ortiz said.
Others suggest that the new admission rates are not balanced.
“To me, the 15 percent is particularly for the Latinos and African Americans. However, there is still the whole state of California with many other ethnicities wanting to to go to college such as Native Americans, Vietnamese and Chinese. Although it’s appreciative for UC to admit more students to get in their college, I think the 15 percent is not enough,” counselor Carlos Jimenez said.