Back Resources UC Academic Senate Proposes Changes to Freshman EligibilityThe UC Board of Regents will consider early in 2009 a proposal to change freshman admission to give more high-achieving students the chance to apply to UC and receive a full review of their applications. If adopted, the new rules would take effect for the fall 2012 entering class. The Academic Senate proposed the changes to address concerns that current policy prevents UC from considering thousands of outstanding students with high GPAs and test scores just because of a technical flaw in their record or a missing test – chiefly, the SAT Subject Tests, which are not required by any other public university in the country. Proposal highlightsUnder the version of the proposal expected to be presented by UC President Mark Yudof, all California high school seniors who…
…would be invited to apply and would be entitled to a comprehensive review of their applications at each UC campus to which they apply. Within this "entitled to review" pool, two categories of applicants would be guaranteed admission somewhere within the UC system:
Together, these students would make up about 10% of the state's high school graduates. If these students are not admitted to one of the campuses they applied to, they would be referred to a campus with remaining space (currently UC Riverside or UC Merced) and offered admission there, as eligible students are now. The remaining admissions needed to make up the full 12.5% pool of top students would be drawn from the broader "entitled to review" pool. All qualified students, whether receiving the referral guarantee or not, would have their applications reviewed comprehensively by all UC campuses to which they apply and would compete for those seats. Their qualifications would be assessed using the same campus-based review processes currently in place – ones that emphasize academic achievement, but that also account for a wide range of personal accomplishments and educational contexts. Differences from current policyThe proposal as presented by President Yudof would require the same number of "a-g" courses and the same GPA as current policy. What is different is:
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