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UC System Considers Dropping SAT Subject Test Requirement

by Michelle J. Nealy , March 19, 2008

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Today admission rates for Blacks is the lowest ever at each UC campus, followed by Hispanics, according to “Gaming the System,” a recent UCLA report.

BOARS argues that eliminating the subject tests would cause the representation of these groups on UC campuses to increase. “Our simulation indicates in terms of the students who would now get a review, it would be a more diverse pool. With respect to African-Americans, numbers would increase; it’s unlikely that there would be a percentage increase. In the case of Chicano–Latinos, they should increase in both in number and percentage,” Brown says. 

No final decisions have been made by the UC Board of Regents. The proposal is still in the consideration stage.

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