UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
A proposed hybrid model for ensuring redress and diversity in undergraduate admissions
A. In order to constitute the class for a particular qualification an applicant will be made an offer based on one of three different sets of criteria.
Some offers will be based on the weighted Faculty Points score (FPS), measuring academic merit by weighting the FPS by a disadvantage factor because we believe that this is a fair measure of academic merit and because this will provide redress for disadvantage; (Band A)
Some offers will be based on the FPS (the NSC scores or equivalent for applicants writing other school-leaving examinations, measuring academic achievement, and, in some faculties a combination of NSC scores and NBT[1] scores), because these will be the best applicants as measured on this basis; (Band B)
Some offers will be based on the FPS within race-redress-defined[2] applicant pools, to ensure that we constitute the class to meet the diversity targets for the class set by the Faculty Board, Senate and Council, because we believe that it is important to meet these diversity targets. (For some qualifications no offers will be made in this group as race-redress targets will be met by the applicants selected in Bands A and B).