Asian American enrollment at U.C. Berkeley from 2009 to 2010 dropped from 22 percent (a 314 student decline), Chinese student enrollment increased during the same time from 55 to 96. White enrollment dropped 29 percent.
Asian American dropped 22%, White dropped 29%.. We are all getting screwed.
The new policy, passed by the Board of Regents in 2009 and scheduled to go into effect later this year, ditches the requirement that all applicants take two SAT Subject Tests (formerly known at SAT II tests) and also reduce the number of students guaranteed admission to solely based on grades and test scores.
The purpose of this is not to harm Asians to the benefit of Whites.. the purpose is to allow the Regents to continue their policy of ‘quotas’ even after the legitimacy of quotas has been challenged. The two races that do well on those SAT II tests are Asian and White in that order. The groups that removing the tests benefits are Hispanic and Black. Ironically two racial groups that, when they go to college, generally do not major in hard sciences in the same percentages that Asian and White do.
