The average accepted Black/Hispanic will rank in the lowest 1% (2.4 standard deviations below the mean) of the class relative to the Asian/White accepted students and in the lowest 2% with respect to the average MCAT score.

If one ignores academic measures such as grades and MCAT test scores, the probability that 42 Black/Hispanics could have been admitted among the 241 acceptances (given the number in the applicant pool) is equal to .000003 or about 1 chance in 300,000. If you consider applicants with similar academic credentials the chances are much less.

How can it be that only one Asian/White (here a Vietnamese) was accepted with low grades and MCAT scores when Asian/White applicants make up over 85% of the applicants within this lower range of grades and MCAT scores?

Attandance at UC Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Riverside or any of the California State University campuses essentially precludes acceptance. When one looks at the number of applications received from the private universities compared to California public universities, the chances of a private university student being accepted is profoundly better. For example, as many as 550 students may be applying in any year from a large UC campus, whereas the number of applicants from a private university would be much lower, with Stanford having by far the most in any given year, perhaps as many as 250.