1.   At Boalt, administrators are stumped about how to deal with the decline in minority admissions.

2.   California administrators are now reviewing their admissions criteria to find creative ways to increase minority admissions.

3.   He emphasized that Berkeley is focusing, instead, on other approaches to increase minority admissions.

4.   Minority admission overall has increased under the program, but it lags at Berkeley and UCLA, the most competitive campuses.

5.   Similar programs pegged to a set percentage, which were established in Texas and California to salvage some vestige of affirmative action, have indeed raised minority admissions.

6.   Still, chancellors at both campuses expressed dismay over exactly how far minority admissions had fallen even in cases where minority applications had increased.

7.   The congresswoman also noted that when affirmative action programs at universities in Texas and California were disbanded this year, minority admissions plummeted.

8.   The fact that Cornyn is fighting to increase minority admissions at state universities is a major turnaround.

9.   The House refused to add the restrictions on minority admissions to the federal Higher Education Act, which must be reauthorized by Congress every five years.

10.   The two campuses that are known to be least selective, Riverside and Santa Cruz, reported increases in minority admissions.