http://www.coursepedia.com/index.php/blog Blog Description en-us http://www.coursepedia.com/index.php/blog/blogdetail/bid/593 18-Jul-2010 Colleges at this time of the year are gearing up for new admissions. There is a crazy rush in the air and each university worth its salt awaits the brightest and best students applying for college seats. However, this year, surprisingly, the University of California beat Harvard and Yale at the highest number admission applications. Fifty seven thousand plus applications for freshman year were received for courses in the fall of 2010. However, not many, in fact about a quarter or so got in. on whole about a 1, 00,000 students applied for university education this year in America. However, there is a hitch. While the University of California should be happy about receiving so many applicants, there is a problem of maintaining the balance of diversity amongst the students. The college is trying to ensure a holistic and a fair approach to review every admission that comes their way. An ideal situation for any university campus would be to aim for its students represent the diverse makeup, both racially and socially, at the university. But a recent seven-year long study revealed, the social makeup of the college is skewed. This is because it is seen that afro-American students who applied for the University of California, the admit rates for these students has fallen by five percent. This has been noted since 2003-04 academic year onwards. However, the Latino students' admit rate has gone up. This has also to do with the vast and still growing Latino population in the state of California. Therefore, how much ever the university tries to maintain a balance diverse campus makeup, its not working. In fact, the university has fallen flat on its face. So why is this happening? According to a professor at the university, students should give up on the hate trend. Even though people are trying, they are not trying hard enough to rid themselves of their racial bias. This also holds true for the admission selection committee, who on the surface claim that they are just being selective. It is easy for the selection committee to reject the students belonging to the minority communities. This is because they can easily state that they are just not good enough and think that no one is going to question them. The professor further stated that no amount of new strategy was going to help them in this case. It would have to be much bigger where they could reach out to the minority communities and let the deserving students hold a seat at the university. It is a shame that deserving students are still being judged on their racial origins. Every legal citizen in the state of California in the United States of America has equal rights where education is concerned. So why is this happening? How much difference is it going to make to the university to take an African-American student who is brighter than the rest? Finally, if he/she succeeds, the university's flag will only fly higher.