UCs abandoned SATs to pursue DEI & it has failed all students. Yes bring back SAT, but you don’t need a SAT score to see students’ math track transcript has no precalculus or calculus classes. Dougherty Valley HS is ~80% Asian, Lowell is ~52% Asian & Mission is ~72% Hispanic. Lowell is ~43% socioeconomically disadvantaged vs 59% Mission vs 9% Dougherty. Lowell had 14% admission to Berkeley. Thousands of hardworking kids are being rejected by top UCs bc of their race - it’s wrong & must end. “One student — I’ll call him Elias — was admitted to a top University of California engineering program. His family was thrilled though surprised. Math had been his weakest subject in high school, but they assumed the university had seen something they hadn’t.” “Another student — Nadia — watched rejection after rejection arrive from UC campuses. One turned her down even though she had earned A’s there in Calculus II and other college-level STEM courses through concurrent enrollment.” “Two real Bay Area high schools put numbers to this pattern. At Dougherty Valley High School in San Ramon, 432 of 756 juniors exceeded California’s math standard in 2024, as measured by SBAC. Of the school’s 542 Berkeley applicants that fall, 44 were admitted — an acceptance rate of 8%.” “At Mission High School in San Francisco, 193 of 202 juniors did not meet the state math standard. Yet Berkeley admitted 34 of the school’s 76 applicants — a 45% acceptance rate. Based on those figures, at least 174 Dougherty Valley students who exceeded the state benchmark were rejected, and a student with Nadia’s academic record would have been among them.”