‘University of California Admissions Disgrace’
The audit is based on a review of the university’s campuses at Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara from 2013-14 through 2018-19. In that time those campuses admitted 22 applicants as athletes “even though the students did not have the athletic qualifications to compete at the university,” the audit stated. Berkeley was found to have admitted 42 students, “most of whom were referred to the admissions office because of their families’ histories as donors or because they were related or connected to university staff, even though their records did not demonstrate competitive qualifications for admission.”
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by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed.