The second hurdle is being selected by at least one of the UC campuses, at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz or Riverside. The competition is ferocious at UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC San Diego. It is less competitive at the other campuses, and UC Riverside accepts all eligible students who apply. University officials estimate that an additional 3,600 students will become eligible under the plan, and only about half will choose to enroll at one of the eight undergraduate campuses. This year's freshman class was 46,000 students.
Officials plan a slight enrollment increase at some campuses to accommodate the additional students.
It will take effect for students enrolling as freshmen in the fall of 2001. That means the first affected students will be those who are now sophomores in high school. The letters will go out as soon as possible after the end of the junior year. The same rules will apply. Although it will bring only a slight increase in blacks and Latinos, UC officials hope it will inspire more of these minority students to view UC as within reach.