racial quotas.The University of California quickly instituted affirmative action in its admissions policies, and announced that it had one of the most diverse campuses in America. If a comparison were based on grades and test scores Asian-Americans would account for 51.6% of the freshman class. Compared with 41.7% under affirmative action. Whites under affirmative action is 29.8 %, without is 34.8% to 37.3%. For Hispanic students a drop from 15.3% under affirmative action to 3 - 6% and Afro-American freshmen would account for less than 2% vice 6.4% of the freshmen.Debate continued on the affirmative action plans with protestors addressing the successes of Asian-Americans and what they achieved without being given preferential treatment. Then on Thursday July 8, 1995, the California University System Board of Regents adopted a plan to dismantle affirmative action plans within the university system. As of January 1, 1997, the University of California system stopped using race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin as a criterion for admission. Under the new policy considerations are given in economic or environmental disadvantages but academic eligibility is top priority. The first year after affirmative action was turned down at California University freshman admission offers to black and Hispanic students decreased by more than half to the lowest totals for each group in at least 15 years. Of the 8,000 students who were offered admission, 191 were black, down from 562 the previous year. A total of 434 Hispanic students were offered admission, down from 1,045. The numbers are down even though more minority applications, with stronger academic credentials, were received than in previous years. Expectations were that the number of minority students who actually accept the offers to be even lower, since the students who are chosen tend to get offers from many schools.The University of California at Berkeley is one ...
