Affirmative action doesn’t allow for quotas. They’re illegal. But that doesn’t mean you should ignore the numbers in front of you.
UC Berkeley just released preliminary numbers of the freshman admits for this coming fall 2015.
The numbers of African-Americans systemwide are appallingly low.
There are 59 fewer admits from 2014; 94 fewer compared to 2013.
Overall, there were 2,653 African-Americans in the freshman class, which is about 4.3 percent of the universitywide total.
If a public school should be a perfect mirror, the state at present is at 6 percent African-American.
For those not used to California demographics, Blacks are the fourth-largest group, after Whites, Hispanics and Asians.
