The University of California, San Diego, is coming up with creative ways to implement a form of affirmative action for admittance into its engineering programs.
Affirmative action was illegal in California long before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that colleges and universities could no longer consider an applicant’s race when admitting him or her.
To circumvent this, UCSD has developed a creative way to undermine its ability to graduate the best engineers and scientists by updating its policies for admitting students to a “selective major.” These majors are fields of study that require students to be accepted into them after they have begun attending the school.
Selective majors are a common practice at universities that typically ensures only the most qualified students are
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