The University of California Regents have instituted a “Comprehensive Review” system for admissions, one purporting to consider the whole student instead of only grades and test scores. An examination of Comprehensive Review, however, reveals a backdoor attempt to reinstate racial preferences in college admissions, a practice the UC Regents themselves rejected in 1996, and since banned by the voter-approved Proposition 209.

Comprehensive Review will also further degrade standards and achievement by sacrificing academic excellence to political correctness and a narrow concept of diversity.

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