Which of the following have occurred due to the rolling back of affirmative action programs during the 1990s?
a. There have been sharp drops in minority undergraduate students at several University of California campuses
b. The law school at Berkeley has seen a major increase in minority students
c. California's medical schools have seen sharp drops in minority enrollments
d. The enrollment of minorities at Texas's four state medical schools increased by 25 percent
ANS: a
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