For decades it's been this way in California. You take the right classes, you keep up a minimum GPA, you make at least a certain score on the ACT or SAT - and you're in, promised a spot on one of the ten campuses of the University of California. Otherwise, too bad. Go some place else.

Now Education Week is reporting that that may soon change...

An Associated Press article published in Education Week said this:

A committee of the UC Board of Regents on Wednesday opted to discuss rather than vote on the multifaceted plan, which would give high school students who have not completed the prescribed college-prep courses or earned minimum test scores a shot at attending a UC campus.

"It's too important to rush through, it's too important to delay," said Regent Eddie Island, who chairs the educational policy committee reviewing the recommendations. He advocated scheduling another meeting where the full board could study the eligibility issue in depth.

The faculty proposal would mean that students could be considered for admission by individual UC campuses beginning with the Fall 2012 term.


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The controversial part of the proposal is that the number of guaranteed admission spots would be reduced. Some student who were automatically admitted under the current system would have to compete for acceptance against students who are automatically rejected under the current system.

The ten campuses of the University of California are: Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.