White, Black, Latino Enrollment Down at UCLA
UCLA is searching for causes for the decline in the number of white, black and Latino applicants for this year’s freshman class, Chancellor Charles E. Young told UC Regents Friday.
Because of those drops, about a third of the class at the Westwood campus is expected to be whites, down from nearly 42% last year; blacks are expected to account for 7%, down from 8.6% in 1989, and Latinos 18%, compared to 19% last year. About a third of the freshmen are expected to be Asian, up from about 26% last year.
Young said that some applicants may have been scared off by increasingly tough competition and others by financial difficulties. A committee of faculty, students and administrators is expected to issue a report on the admissions changes by September, Young said.
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