Cal’s new athletic admissions policy will bring sweeping changes to
the way its football program recruits student-athletes, making it much
harder for the school to admit athletic exceptions after an uproar over
recent graduation numbers that showed more than 50 percent of football
and men’s basketball players were not getting degrees. The new policy states that by 2017-18 a minimum of 80
percent of incoming student-athletes for each sport must meet the UC
Berkeley standard 3.0 grade-point average for acceptance. The plan,
approved by the Academic Senate on Oct. 17, will be implemented over
three years, with the number of “special talent” exceptions allowed
decreasing every year from a maximum 60 percent in 2015-16 to 20 percent
in 2017-18...
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