Who We Are

SARD is a new organization, founded in the fall of 2024, by a coalition of people who have observed the University of California's brazen reversion to the use of large racial preferences in its admissions practices. We include students (and parents of students) who have been rejected by the UC schools even as classmates with substantially lower academic credentials -- but a more favorable skin pigmentation -- have been accepted. We include academics who have served on UC admissions committees, or studied UC admissions practices, and have been shocked by the university's use of quota-like policies to radically distort its admissions standards. And we include public interest lawyers who believe that a suit against UC for these practices can and will be successful.

SARD’s mission is to compel the UC to adhere to both state and federal law by ending its decades-long admissions practice of discriminating against well qualified White and Asian applicants in order to race-balance incoming classes, and of often harming Black and Hispanic applicants by admitting them into academic programs for which their preparation is insufficient to compete on equal terms. We advocate that UC admissions should be race-blind and based on individual merit, accepting the objectively best applicants rather than assembling a pool of good-enough applicants and then social engineering an entering class to conform to the ideological, political, and personal preferences of UC’s Regents and administrators. Our goals include: