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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) — More Latino than white students in California
have been offered admission to the state’s premier public universities for
the first time, officials said Friday, a milestone that reflects the diverse
racial makeup of a state where Latino children represent a majority of
students in public schools.
Preliminary admissions data show that 17,589 Latino students have been
accepted as freshmen at one of the University of California’s nine
undergraduate campuses for the fall, or 29 percent of all 61,120 in-state
applicants who were offered a spot. That compares to 16,378 white residents,
who made up 27 percent of the admitted applicants.
Asian Americans remained the largest single ethnic group represented in the
accepted freshman class, making up 36 percent of all Californians admitted.
Black students received 4 percent of the admission offers.
Campaign for College Opportunity Community Affairs Director Audrey Dow
called the growing share of Latino students qualifying for a UC education “
a positive trend.”
“It is really encouraging and emphasizes that Latinos want to go to college
,” Dow said. “Latino families, Latino students understand the value of an
education and are doing what they need to do to be competitive and eligible
for the most rigorous system in the state.”
University officials said that competition to get into a UC school remained
stiff, a situation they tried to address by making room for more students. A
record 86,865 students from California, out-of-state and abroad were
accepted, or 58 percent of all 148,688 applicants. By comparison, the system
had a 68 percent acceptance rate for Fall 2011. The new numbers are a sign
of how much harder winning a spot has become.
Of the ones who got lucky in the admissions lottery this year, 25,745, or 30
percent of the accepted freshmen, are from out-of-state or are
international students. The percentage of UC students who are not state
residents has risen steadily in recent years as officials have tried to
offset cuts in state funding with the higher tuition nonresidents pay.
Every campus except the two most prestigious — Berkeley and UCLA, which
admitted fewer students than last year — accepted more international or out
-of-state students for the fall.
So while the number of students admitted system-wide for the fall rose
overall by 4,015 over last year, 2,984 of those offers went to non-
Californians.
“I know there have been some concerns that campuses have increased the
number of out-of-state and international students (and) are somehow
displacing California students,” said Stephen Handel, UC’s associate vice
president for undergraduate admissions. “And that’s not true. We admit as
many California applicants as we receive funding for from the state.”
Even though the system has stepped up recruitment of students from outside
the state, 61,120 Californians — 1,031 more than last year — still gained
admission to a UC school. Most of the growth, however, was limited to just
the three campuses that accepted more applicants overall: San Diego,
Riverside and Santa Cruz. |
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