Disaggregating Racial and Ethnic Data
- Posted by Sarah Ziegler on July 22nd, 2008 in Admissions
In response to advocacy efforts from current students, the UC application for fall of 2009 will now allow students to self-identify their racial and ethnic background in greater detail. The number of Asian-American categories, for example, will expand from 8 to 23. The move is designed primarily to help support underrepresented Asian groups find resources once they get to UC, not to provide an admissions advantage or disadvantage (as public schools, the UC’s do not practice affirmative action or give preferential admission by race). The Common Application in recent years has also expanded students’ ability to identify themselves by allowing multiple ethnicity and county of origin choices (currently, the Common Application provides a choice of nearly 250 countries of origin).
To learn more about the UC’s efforts, click here.
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