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Called "comprehensive review," the process will continue to ensure the admission of highly qualified students by allowing UC campuses to consider the broad variety of academic and personal qualifications that all applicants present on the application. It replaces the previous "two-tiered" process in which each campus was required to admit 50-75 percent of its freshman students solely on the basis of certain academic factors. The Regents voted 15-4 to endorse the comprehensive review policy, which was proposed by the Academic Senate, the representative body of the UC faculty. The comprehensive review process, similar to that used by many of the nation's most selective public and private universities, will take effect for students applying to UC for fall 2002 entrance. Students will still become eligible for the UC system in the same ways they currently do, and all UC-eligible students will still be guaranteed admission to at least one UC campus. Students attain eligibility for the UC system by completing the "a-g" coursework and by achieving grades and standardized test scores that meet the requirements of UC's numerical eligibility index. Students can also become UC-eligible by ranking in the top 4 percent of their high school on the basis of grades in the "a-g" courses through the "Eligibility in the Local Context" program. Individual UC campuses will still select their freshman class from the pool of UC-eligible students, and the criteria that campuses use will also remain the same. There are 14 selection criteria - 10 academic criteria, and four "supplemental" criteria that evaluate other student characteristics such as special talents, unusual intellectual or leadership skills, and accomplishments in the face of personal challenges, among other things. The criteria are the same as have been used in UC's admissions process in recent years. The change is that UC campuses are now able to select the full freshman class on the basis of all 14 criteria, considering all the information and qualifications a student presents in the application. Previously, UC campuses were required to admit 50-75 percent of the class on the basis of the academic criteria alone, and the balance of the class on the basis of the academic criteria plus the supplemental criteria. Comprehensive review means that students' records will be analyzed not only for their grades and test scores - important baseline indicators of academic potential - but for additional evidence of such qualities as motivation, leadership, intellectual curiosity, and initiative. These qualities play an important role in student success in an academic environment as rigorous and challenging as that of the University of California, and they can be demonstrated in a variety of ways, through a variety of achievements and experiences. Consideration of these factors has long been part of the admissions process at many of the nation's most selective universities.
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