Civil Rights Groups Sue UC-Berkeley Over Admissions Criteria
Several students and civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against the University of California, Berkeley, last week, alleging that its undergraduate-admissions policies discriminate against minority applicants.
The class action accuses the highly competitive public school of relying too heavily on SAT scores and whether applicants have taken honors and advanced-placement classes. Such classes are not available in many high schools with mostly minority enrollments, said Kimberly West-Faulcon, the Western regional counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, one of the civil rights groups that brought the case.
SAT exams are problematic, she argued, because they are designed to gauge students' performance during the freshman year of college rather than...
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