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The University of California school system is considering other ways to grant admission to its schools...other than GPA and SAT scores.

The reason - the schools want to expand economic, racial and geographical diversity.

Professors behind the initiative want the admission's process to focus on personal achievments - initiative and leadership.

Presently, UC schools must admit students who rank in the top 12.5% of the state's high school grads...a law that was set in 1960.

This whole let's-rethink-how-to-do-things idea comes from the state having barred affirmative action in the admission's process.

Students should now be allowed to do poorly in school but make up for that with good leadership, overcoming adversity or working hard at a job.

Perhaps instead of coming up with entirely new admission's criteria or even trying to supplement what is already in existence, the UC schools should consider creating a new school/s that emphasize leadership and initiative.

If a student did not do well on tests in high school, what makes the profs think they will do well in a college setting where results on tests are the measuring stick.

Instead of putting these square students in the existing round holes of UC schools, why not create square schools?

What do you think?