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LGBT/Pride Week

June is LGBT pride month. We have a variety of queer AAPI's, friends, families and allies posting about their experiences. Thanks to Be DeGuzman, one of APAP's 2009 Unsung Heroes, for coordinating this special week of posts.

To help with our upcoming hate crimes/Vincent Chin week (June 21) or Pacific Islander week (Aug), please let us know. If you have a topic you or your agency would like to coordinate, email us.

Items tagged: uc eligibility

UC Admissions "Scandal" of 2009! ... Yo, let's not freak out... just yet (Part 2 of 6)

The Joint API Legislative Caucus has specific reservatios about how the new admissions proposals would decrease the percentages of Asian Pacific Islanders from 32.6% to 25.2% of the entire eligibility pool, including both guaranteed and entitled to review applicants.  The UC has not made available sufficient information on how or what aspects of the proposal would cause this decrease. -- From California API Legislative Caucus to UC Regents, 02.03.09

Today we're going to have a math lesson on percentages, numerators, and denominators; so we can understand why the percentage of students entitled to UC admissions review (ETR) that are AAPI goes from 32.6% to 25.2%. Before the math lesson, let's understand how the new UC policy will determine which high school students will be entitled to review (ETR) in the UC admissions process.