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quickly began to climb, driven by California’s fast-rising
Latino population. By 2010, that group accounted for
more than 22 percent of the system’s freshmen.
“If we had affirmative action as one of our tools, we’d
do somewhat better for Hispanics, and we’d probably
do significantly better for African-Americans,” said
Mark G. Yudof, president of the University of California
system.
A central part of California’s effort has been to
compare applicants with other students in their
communities, rather than with students statewide,
much as Texas does. At each high school, the top 9
percent of students are guaranteed admission to the
University of California — though not necessarily to the
campuses of their choice — as long as they meet
some other criteria.
Officials acknowledge that the aim is race-conscious
but that the mechanism is race-neutral.
Florida uses a percentage-based system as well.
There, as in California and Texas, the benefits go
mostly to Hispanic students because of the large
number of high schools that are predominantly
Hispanic. Black students are spread among high
schools with large numbers of other students.
In California, arguably the most liberal state to have
banned affirmative action in admissions, the university
system has gone further to increase minority
enrollment. The system has expanded, adding a new
campus and increasing enrollment at existing schools.
The Berkeley campus, and later U.C.L.A., also
adopted an admissions approach called holistic
review, reducing the emphasis on grades and test
scores while taking a broader look at students’
experiences and the challenges they have overcome.
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“I do think you’re going to see a move toward a more
holistic admissions system” in other states, Mr. Yudof
said, especially if the Supreme Court rolls back
consideration of race. His system is pushing all of its
campuses in that direction.
Some of the public universities in Washington State,
where voters banned affirmative action in 1998, use a
holistic approach, as does the University of Michigan.
Richard H. Sander, a U.C.L.A. law school professor
who studies the issue, says that the holistic approach
is also loose enough to allow race to be an
unacknowledged part of the equation, potentially
violating state law. University officials insist that their
systems are race-blind.
In Washington, Hispanic and black enrollment at state
universities did not change much after the law went
into effect, but at the state’s flagship, the University of
Washington, it fell for a few years, before returning to
its former level. At the University of Michigan, minority
enrollment fell sharply after the law took effect in 2007,
and has not rebounded. Black students made up more
than 10 percent of the freshman class a decade ago,
and 7 to 8 percent in the years just before the law, but
that has dropped to a little over 5 percent in recent
years.
As for the Fisher case, Professor Sander pointed to
the crucial role of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, widely
seen as the swing vote. He predicted that rather than
overturn the standards it set in 2003, the court would
amend them or alter the way they are carried out,
restricting the use of race without eliminating it. “This
hinges on Kennedy,” Professor Sander said, “and
Kennedy usually likes to do half a loaf.”
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