UCLA’s ‘Holistic’ Admissions Policy Increases Blacks’ Share of Next Fall’s Freshman Class

After adopting a new, “holistic” approach to reviewing applications, the University of California at Los Angeles has reversed a decline in the share of black students in the freshman class it has admitted for the fall, university officials said on Thursday. The new admissions policy appears to have increased black and Hispanic students’ chances of being accepted, while making it more likely that white and Asian-American applicants would be turned away.