The number of black and Hispanic applicants to the University of California at Berkeley has dropped more than 10 per cent for next fall's freshman class, although the number of minority students applying to all campuses in the state system has increased, according to statistics released Wednesday.

The class is the second to apply to the University of California under a policy, established by the Board of Regents in 1995, that bars the use of...

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