[Papa John]

C.al is requiring that, eventually, the vast majority of its athletes are eligible according to UC (i.e. systemwide) requirements. The GPA is just a part of the eligibility equation. If you are not a special action admit (e.g. scholarship athlete, musical talent, amazing dancer, child of a big donor), then meeting minimum UC requirements gets you into a UC campus, just not necessarily your first choice.

And the requirements apply equally to each sport:

This means that by the 2017-18 academic year at least 80% of athletic admissions for each varsity sport will be realized through normal review, with a minimum high school grade-point average of 3.0.

http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/site...proved.pdf

This was actually approved by the Berkeley Academic Senate back in the fall, but I guess it's news now because not much else is going on in college sports.

Sorry to be a party pooper, but I don't take joy in athletes failing to graduate from college, even if the college is Stanford's archrival. So I'm happy to see that C.al is taking serious and productive action in response to its utter neglect of athletes under the previous athletic director. I hope that every one of C.al's football and basketball players graduate and I hope that Stanford wins Big Game for at least another 30 years in a row.

[Papa John]

C.al is requiring that, eventually, the vast majority of its athletes are eligible according to UC (i.e. systemwide) requirements. The GPA is just a part of the eligibility equation. If you are not a special action admit (e.g. scholarship athlete, musical talent, amazing dancer, child of a big donor), then meeting minimum UC requirements gets you into a UC campus, just not necessarily your first choice.

And the requirements apply equally to each sport:

This means that by the 2017-18 academic year at least 80% of athletic admissions for each varsity sport will be realized through normal review, with a minimum high school grade-point average of 3.0.

http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/site...proved.pdf

This was actually approved by the Berkeley Academic Senate back in the fall, but I guess it's news now because not much else is going on in college sports.

Sorry to be a party pooper, but I don't take joy in athletes failing to graduate from college, even if the college is Stanford's archrival. So I'm happy to see that C.al is taking serious and productive action in response to its utter neglect of athletes under the previous athletic director. I hope that every one of C.al's football and basketball players graduate and I hope that Stanford wins Big Game for at least another 30 years in a row.