More Latinos than Whites Just Enrolled In UC Schools. That Could Be a Political Problem.

*A different look at the Latino enrollment at UC Schools story. Although this story doesn’t touch on it, this is also in contrast with the Supreme Court’s upholding of a ban on affirmative action in Michigan. Nor does it talk at length about the affirmative action battles in California, where the Asian community is at odds with Latinos over race-based admissions to colleges and universities.  VL

By Philip Bump, The Wire

For years, the largest ethnic group represented in California state schools was whites. Until Latinos became the plurality in the state; now, more Latinos are enrolled as freshmen in the University of California system this fall for the first time. The benchmark isn’t a surprise. The politics might be.

“Latinos account for 28.8% of the 61,120 Californians admitted for this fall’s freshman class at the UC system’s nine undergraduate campuses,” The Wall Street Journal reports. That’s 2 percentage points higher than the number of white freshman who will be attending the state’s nine UC schools — or about 1,200 kids. Not big, but a first.

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