Centrist: UC System Embraces Racism

The University of California system’s decision to drop the SAT in admissions “is not antiracist at all,” John McWhorter explains at his It Bears Mentioning blog. “A study of UC, specifically, showed that the SAT nicely predicts who will graduate and even tracks with GPA.” Yes, black and Hispanic admissions “to the flagship schools Berkeley and UCLA” dropped after voters banned racial preferences in admissions in 1998, but “there were still plenty of brown students — the ‘re-segregation’ so many furiously predicted never happened.” And “the idea that if you don’t get into Berkeley or UCLA you’re doomed to a life selling apples on the street is fantasy.” Notably, at UC San Diego “before the preferences ban, one black student out of 3,268 freshmen made honors. A few years later, after students who once would have gotten into Berkeley or UCLA were now admitted to schools such as UCSD, 1 in 5 black freshmen were making honors, the same proportion as white ones.”