April 20, 2001

4% Plan in California Lifts Minority Admissions

By PETER SCHMIDT

The number of in-state students from underrepresented minority groups being admitted to the University of California has risen 17 percent in a year, and officials there believe that the increase may have been driven largely by a new policy that guarantees admission to the top 4 percent of the graduates of each high school in the state.

Figures released by the university this month show that overall admissions of in-state students are up about 10 percent for the fall of 2001, when the

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