Prometheus 6

We're undoing all his hard work. 

"One of three things must be happening," Connerly said Thursday. "Black kids have either gotten extremely smart or extremely competitive in a way they weren't five or six years ago, or there's been a deliberate, carefully orchestrated effort by a lot of admissions people to conspire to increase those numbers, or they've found a proxy for race."

Maybe it became just as difficult to figure out who to suppress as who to further suppress.

The initial drop in applications was because Black students felt unwelcome, that's all. It takes a moment to adjust to a collective slap in the face.

UCLA sees an increase in black student admissions
The Westwood campus offers spots in its fall class to 392 African American students, up from 249 a year ago.
By Rebecca Trounson and Richard C. Paddock
Times Staff Writers
April 6, 2007

UCLA has offered admission for the fall to 392 African American students, up from the 249 who were offered a place in the current freshman class, officials announced Thursday.

That part of the University of California's detailed annual release on freshman admissions was greeted with satisfaction and a measure of relief by UCLA administrators and others who had expressed concern about declining numbers of black students on the Westwood campus. The number reached a crisis last fall, when only about 100 black freshmen enrolled — or about 2% of a class of more than 4,800.

Overall, 57,318 Californians were offered admission to at least one UC campus; 11,837 students were accepted to UCLA.

Acting UCLA Chancellor Norman Abrams, who pushed the campus toward implementing a more "holistic" admissions process for the fall, partly in response to the low African American numbers, said Thursday he was pleased.

"It was heartening to see that the African American numbers and the proportion of underrepresented minorities in general went up this year," Abrams said. "To see that our academic numbers have also risen somewhat is also a very good sign."

Abrams said UCLA officials would study the admissions data to learn the reasons for the changes this year, which also included an increase in Latino and white freshman admissions and a drop in that for Asians.