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"a-g"

Statement on K-12 Online Learning, with Requirements for Online Courses and Programs to Receive "a-g" Approval (5/12)
Policy for "a-g" Review of Online Courses (5/12)
Criteria for Approval of Online Providers and Courses to Satisfy UC Subject ("a-g") Requirements (10/06)
Granting of "a-g" Course List "Program Status" (1/04)

Comprehensive Review

Annual Report on Undergraduate Admissions Requirements and Comprehensive Review, June 2023
Guidelines for Implementation of University Policy on Undergraduate Admisssion (Issued 2002, last revised December 2022)
Annual Report on Undergraduate Admissions Requirements and Comprehensive Review, May 2022
Annual Report on Undergraduate Admissions Requirements and Comprehensive Review, May 2021
Position Statement on American Indian Tribal Affiliation and Admission Selection Criterion #13 (1/21)
Continuing Use of Pass/No Pass Grades in California High Schools (1/21)
Annual Report on Undergraduate Admissions Requirements and Comprehensive Review (5/20)
Annual Report on Undergraduate Admissions Requirements and Comprehensive Review (4/19)
Annual Report on Undergraduate Admissions Requirements and Comprehensive Review (4/18)
Annual Report on Undergraduate Admissions Requirements and Comprehensive Review (2/17)
Annual Report on Undergraduate Admissions Requirements and Comprehensive Review (2/16)
Annual Report on Undergraduate Admissions Requirements and Comprehensive Review (1/15)
Report to the Regents: Comprehensive Review in Admissions at the University of California: an Update (9/12)
Recommendation to President Yudof on Comprehensive Review and Holistic Admission (6/10)
Report to the Regents: Comprehensive Review in Freshman Admission at the University of California 2003 – 2009 (5/10)
Guiding Principles for Comprehensive Review (2001, revised 2010)
Position Statement on Admission Selection Criterion #14 - Geographical Preferences Based on Proximity to a Campus (10/04)
Report to the Regents: Comprehensive Review in Freshman Admissions - Fall 2003 (09/03)
Regents item: Comprehensive Review in Undergraduate Admissions (11/02)
- Minutes of Regents 11/14/02 meeting
Report to the Regents: First-Year Implementation of Comprehensive Review in Freshman Admissions (11/02)
Regents item: Proposal For Comprehensive Review in Undergraduate Admissions (11/01)
- Minutes of Regents 11/01/01 meeting
Regents item: Report on Comprehensive Review in Undergraduate Admissions (10/01)
- Minutes of Regents 10/17/01 meeting
Admissions Tests
- BOARS Statement on Suspension of Consideration of Standardized Tests in Comprehensive Review (11/21)
- Statement on the Redesigned SAT (7/14)
- Admissions Tests and UC Principles for Admissions Testing (12/09)
- Response to: "NOT SO FAST! A Second Opinion on a University of California Proposal to Endorse the New SAT": CSHE.16.08, by S. Geiser (12/08)
- Regents item: Adoption of Academic Senate Recommendations Regarding Freshman Admissions Testing (7/03)
- Proposal for Use of Supplemental Subject Matter Tests in the UC Admissions Process (11/02)
- Regents item: Admissions Testing (5/02)
  - Minutes of Regents 5/15/02 meeting
- Regents item: UC Admissions Testing Proposal (3/02)
  - Minutes of Regents 3/12/02 meeting
- The Use of Admissions Tests by the University of California (1/02)
  - Executive summary
- Academic Council Resolution on The Failure of The National Merit Scholarship Program to Meet the Requirements of UC's Definition of Academic Merit (6/05)

Eligibility

Allowing "Local Context" for Online California High Schools (4/21)
Assembly Approval of Adjustment to Statewide Eligibility Index (4/21)
Guidelines for Implementation of University Policy on Admissions by Exception (9/05, Amended 3/20 and 6/20)
Report to the Regents: Impact of the New Freshman Eligibility Policy at the University of California (11/13)
Proposal to Reform UC's Freshman Eligibility Policy, memo from the Academic Assembly to President Yudof (6/08)
Proposal to Reform UC's Freshman Eligibility Policy, out for Senatewide review (8/07)
- BOARS' Eligibility-Reform Proposal Q & A and relevant UCOP data (9/07)
Regents item: Academic Senate Recommendation Regarding Freshman Eligibility Requirements (9/04)
- Minutes of Regents 09/23/04 meeting
Regents item: Academic Senate’s Recommendations for Changes in Eligibility Criteria for Undergraduate Admissions (7/04)
- Minutes of Regents 07/14/04 meeting
Summary of Terms and Conditions for UC Eligibility, Admissions, Selection and Enrollment (5/04)
Regents item: Establishment of UC Freshman Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC), Proposed Changes in Academic Course Requirements for UC Freshman Eligibility (VPA Requirement), Proposed Changes in GPA Calculation for UC Freshman Eligibility (03/99)
- Minutes of Regents 03/18/99 meeting

Mathematics

Nonresident Admission

2022 Compare Favorably Report (7/23)
2021 Compare Favorably Report (6/22)
BOARS Policy on Selection of Nonresident Students (6/21)
2020 Compare Favorably Report (6/21)
2019 Compare Favorably Report (7/20)
2018 Compare Favorably Report (6/19)
2017 Compare Favorably Report (7/18)
Report to President Napolitano on the Compare Favorably Policy (7/17)
2016 Compare Favorably Report (7/17)
2015 Compare Favorably Report (6/16)
2014 Compare Favorably Report (4/15)
2013 Compare Favorably Report (4/14)
Resolution on the Evaluation of Residents and Nonresidents (12/11)
Clarification of Principles for Non-Resident Enrollment (6/11)
Principles for Non-Resident Undergraduate Enrollment at the University of California (7/09)

Other Reports and Statements

Annual Reports

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