[quote=CA renter]IMO, most of the “exceptional” students will succeed anyway. The quota system is there to give others a fighting chance.[/quote]Who’s the “others” you’re referring to? The Asian students who live in low income area and parents working hard in their blue collar jobs or the middle/upper-middle class Hispanics/Black students?
[quote=CA renter]And note that the black student population has also gone down since they eliminated AA at the universities. Asians, OTOH, seem to have fared about the same before and after Prop 209. But we also have to look at the population increases of various groups, and Hispanics have grown in number far faster than any of the other groups which might explain their increasing numbers. Whites, as a percentage of the population, have been decreasing (as have blacks, IIRC). Asians have been increasing, so the fact that their percentages at the universities are the same might mean there’s a slight decline as a percentage of the population. Not sure about any of that, though.[/quote]Black students population went down because their academic does not match the rest of student body. Asians did not fare the same before and after Prop 209. Your OTOH is misinformed. Before Prop 209, Asian account for ~20-30% of UC, and after Prop 209, Asian accounts for 40-55% of UC student body. So, yes, when you actually remove the quotas and treat all students equal, you get to see where they stand against the rest of the student body.
