Speaks Out
By Daily Bruin Staff
July 26, 1998 9:00 p.m.
Monday, July 27, 1998 Speaks Out
How should the children of UCLA alumni be treated in the
admissions process? Should the admissions office give them special
attention or not?
‘I think they should be treated like everyone else because only
the top 20 percent is accepted to the UC system and there’s not
really room for favoritism. I think if we are getting rid of
Affirmative Action all across the boards, then that should apply to
the alumni.’
Eric Choi
Fifth Year,
Computer Science/ Engineering
‘Giving special treatment to alumni children does benefit the
school in some ways because we got a lot more funding for the
school for programs, scholarships, buildings, infrastructure. I can
understand the other students’opinion about how that’s a
preference, but UCLA runs 75 percent on donations and only gets 25
percent of its money from the state. I see it helping more students
than hurting them  most people don’t realize that our school
is mostly funded by donations.’
Alejandro Sanchez
Third Year,
Political Science
‘I think they should be treated like everyone else. There’s some
idiots whose parents are high up in power and they don’t deserve to
be in the university, but they get in because someone from high up
writes a letter for them, and I think that’s a serious
problem.’
Zarina Kiziloglu
Assistant Specialist,
Pharmacology
‘I think they should get the same thing. Everyone pretty much
comes in here with the same standards. I didn’t come here because
of someone else, and I don’t think anyone else should either. In
the long run it might help, but I think ethically it’s wrong.’
Paolo Dejuzman
Third Year,
Biology
‘I think everyone should be treated exactly fairly. It’d be the
same type of issue as the preferential treatment with Affirmative
Action.’
Ruth Herrera
Fifth Year,
Psychology
‘I believe they should basically be treated based on merit.
Whoever earns the right to come to UCLA should be the ones
attending, and in the end it will make our degrees worth something
when we leave.’
Sylvia Gribbell-Williams
Alumna,
Political Science
