The Washington Free Beacon | UCal Snubs Local Students To Woo Chinese Elite, Lawsuit Alleges

The University of California has used a loophole to fill classrooms with underqualified international students while turning away some of California’s brightest high schoolers, according to multiple state reports and interviews with current and former faculty members.

Two state reports now at the center of a civil lawsuit against the U.C. system say the U.C. administrators are using a loophole to get around a state requirement to admit the top 9 percent of California high school graduates.

The main beneficiaries have been international students, with the number rising to 13.9 percent of the total student body in 2017 from 4.8 percent a decade earlier, according to admissions data. Chinese international students, who represent about 75 percent of the international student population, have reaped the largest benefit.

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