A nonpartisan group recently filed a lawsuit against the University of California system in federal court, alleging racial discrimination in admissions decisions.
One member of the group and former UCLA professor told The College Fix the school’s “second-chance review policy” is to blame. Meanwhile, a UC spokesperson said the school does not consider race in admissions and the lawsuit lacks merit.
The newly formed Students Against Racial Discrimination — which includes a mix of Republican, Democrat and independent students, parents, academics, and citizens — argues in its lawsuit that UC’s admissions process gives “discriminatory preferences to non-Asian racial minorities,” allowing “applicants with inferior academic credentials to obtain admission at the expense of rejected candidates with better academic credentials.”
As a result, many Asian-American and white applicants are denied admission to UC schools because of their race. This “also harms Hispanic and black students who are often placed at a significant academic disadvantage, and thus experience worse outcomes, because of the university’s use of racial preferences,” the lawsuit states.