Too Many Latinos/Blacks Eligible for Admission:UC Changing Admission Criteria
University of California regents are likely to vote this week to clamp down on the percentage of high school students eligible to attend UC by raising the minimum grade point average required for admission from a B-minus to a B. The state's budget crisis prompted the university to reject 7,600 students who had been eligible for admission in the coming academic year, asking them to attend community colleges for two years. The move, which was wildly unpopular, has spurred efforts to shrink the eligibility pool so that the university won't have to do that again. [more] Pictured above: Ward Connerly, Hater of Blacks and Latinos.