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Changes in the format of the SAT and ACT tests over the past several years make it difficult to track the academic prowess of UCLA freshmen over time. But there are also data on the percentage of freshmen who graduated high school with a 4.00 GPA or higher (honors and AP classes can raise high school GPA’s to over 4.00). These data indicate that the classes entering in the three or four years prior to 2007 were relatively weak, when African American enrollment at UCLA was declining. In the last five years, however, the entering freshmen have become increasingly impressive by this metric. Over 90 % of the freshmen entering UCLA in 2014 graduated high school with a GPA of 4.00 or higher (UCLA Undergraduate Admission 2014).
To be sure, there is a group of applicants that UCLA, Berkeley, and virtually all public universities in the country positively drool over—out-of-state and international students, who pay substantially more tuition than state residents. In the fall of 2014, 30 % of the freshmen entering UCLA and Berkeley came from other states and countries (Gordon 2014).
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Roderick Kiewiet, D. Tim Groseclose, Cheating: an insider’s report on the use of race in admissions at UCLA. Public Choice 162, 205–209 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-014-0209-8
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