A San Francisco Chronicle article published Friday said that UC officials were discussing giving less weight to the venerable SAT in an attempt to boost enrollment of African-American and Hispanic students whose numbers declined with the end of affirmative action programs in the late 1990s.
The idea, UC officials said this weekend, was not to the point where it could be considered a firm proposal.
"The ideas discussed to this point are simply that – ideas," University Provost C. Judson King said in a statement released during the weekend. "Many of them, including the suggestion of altering the use of the SAT in the admissions process, have been raised previously and are the subject of great differences of opinion, both within the university and throughout higher education generally. We intend to evaluate these issues carefully, mindful of our legal obligations under Proposition 209 and of our responsibilities to the students of California."
The UC system every year attracts thousands of applicants with high SAT scores to its 10 campuses, including UCLA and UC Berkeley.
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