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Students Against Racial Discrimination filed a suit saying the university system gives “discriminatory preferences to non-Asian racial minorities.”
The suit says Asian American and white applicants are turned away while Black and Hispanic students “are often placed at significant academic disadvantage, and thus experience worse outcomes, because of the university’s use of racial preferences.”
The student group is accusing the University of California of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, the 14th Amendment and Proposition 206 in California, which forbids race as a factor in public education.
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The father of a Palo Alto teen who garnered national attention for getting rejected by 16 colleges and hired by Google as a software engineer has filed a new lawsuit on Feb. 11 against the University of California and five UC campuses -- UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB and UC Davis -- as well as the U.S. Department of Education, for racial discrimination.
"What we're trying to get out of this is a fair treatment for future Asian applicants going forward, including my other kids and my future grandkids," says Nan Zhong.
The Zhongs' suit follows one filed on Feb. 3 by Students Against Racial Discrimination, which alleges UC's use of holistic admissions--meaning non-academic factors, like extracurriculars and life circumstances--diminishes academic merit and hurts Asian American and white applicants.