University of California faculty leaders are divided over a complicated and controversial proposal to change the system’s admissions policy that they are scheduled to consider this week, the Los Angeles Times reported. The proposal aims to increase the number of applicants over all, but it would also limit the the number of students who are guaranteed admission to at least one campus of the university system.

Under the proposal, developed by a faculty admissions committee, the university would still take students from the top 12.5 percent of their high-school class, but alter how it defines that group. Among the changes, it would drop a requirement that applicants take two standardized subject tests in addition to the SAT or the ACT, and it would lower the minimum grade-point average in required classes to 2.8, instead of 3.0.

The university would also still guarantee admission to students in the top 4 percent of their high-school class, but students who now qualify for that guarantee in other ways — through grades and test scores — would be promised only a full review of their applications.

Several professors told the Times they thought the proposal would require major revisions in order to win the endorsement of the university’s systemwide Academic Council of faculty leaders, which meets on Wednesday. The council will forward its recommendations to the university’s Board of Regents for final approval. —Charles Huckabee