That’s what the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) wants to know. PLF, a public interest group that fights for individual rights, filed a California Public Records Act request for UCLA to release relevant information about its undergraduate applications process.
Attorney Joshua Thompson said, “PLF has been contacted by a number of students, parents, and UC faculty who suspect that undergraduate admissions at UCLA are not race- and sex-neutral, as required by Proposition 209.”
In 1996, 54 percent of California voters chose to amend the constitution to bar state and local governments from discriminating against and granted preferences to anyone based on race and sex. UCLA is a state-supported institution.
PLF requests that UCLA release undergraduate applications, including essays (with personal identifying info redacted), identities of application readers, scores given, documents that show why they admitted or denied each applicant, and other relevant information.
Color me jaded, because I know UCLA is considering race and sex when assessing applications, in violation of the law. PLF is attempting obtain the proof. After Proposition 209 became law, UCLA adopted a policy called holistic review, a poor disguise for race preferences.
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