UCs are considering reinstating SAT and ACT tests for admission

[Anonymous]

To illustrate why California finds itself with students at its flagship colleges who can't do middle school math, much less high school math, take the case of Avenal High School.

Avenal is in the central valley, heavily Hispanic and poor. Only 12.3% of students at Avenal High met or exceeded California math standards. California uses 4 standards: Standard Exceed, Standard Met, Standard Nearly Met and Standard Not Met https://caaspp-elpac.ets.org/caaspp/DashViewReportSB?ps=true&lstTestYear=2025&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstSubGroup=1&lstGrade=13&lstSchoolType=A&lstCounty=16&lstDistrict=73932-000&lstSchool=1630953


The high school enrolls 738 students, or about 172 students in the senior class.
https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/enrgrdlevels.aspx?agglevel=School&year=2025-26&cds=16739321630953

Only 21 students met or exceeded math standards in the entire senior class. (2.3% exceeded the standard, 10% met the standard)

For UC admissions:
UCI 24 applied, 15 were admitted
Berkeley 11 applied 4 were admitted
Davis 11 applied, 6 were admitted
UC Santa Cruz 19 applied, 12 were admitted

This plays out all over California, urban, suburban, rural, it doesn't matter. UC's to get around the state constitutional prohibition on using race in admissions (prop 209) have resorted to selecting a proportionate number of students. It doesn't shunt them to second tier campuses like UC Merced or UC Riverside. It places them into UC Berkeley, UCI, UCSD.

These colleges end up with low performing students. Now multiply this by the thousands of underperforming California high schools and you see why UC Berkeley has students who can't handle high school math or reading.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is no secret that as California's demographics have changed and you have had a rise in the political power of left wing Hispanics that the UC system would adopt policies aligned with this.

Why would the UC's change anything? They are seeing increasing numbers of FGLI students enrolling in Berkeley and UCLA. Just because it crowds out high achieving (and in the minority) white and asian students doesn't mean the system is broken. It is working exactly as intended.

The majority demographic of Berkeley is Asian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To illustrate why California finds itself with students at its flagship colleges who can't do middle school math, much less high school math, take the case of Avenal High School.

Avenal is in the central valley, heavily Hispanic and poor. Only 12.3% of students at Avenal High met or exceeded California math standards. California uses 4 standards: Standard Exceed, Standard Met, Standard Nearly Met and Standard Not Met https://caaspp-elpac.ets.org/caaspp/DashViewReportSB?ps=true&lstTestYear=2025&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstSubGroup=1&lstGrade=13&lstSchoolType=A&lstCounty=16&lstDistrict=73932-000&lstSchool=1630953


The high school enrolls 738 students, or about 172 students in the senior class.
https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/enrgrdlevels.aspx?agglevel=School&year=2025-26&cds=16739321630953

Only 21 students met or exceeded math standards in the entire senior class. (2.3% exceeded the standard, 10% met the standard)

For UC admissions:
UCI 24 applied, 15 were admitted
Berkeley 11 applied 4 were admitted
Davis 11 applied, 6 were admitted
UC Santa Cruz 19 applied, 12 were admitted

This plays out all over California, urban, suburban, rural, it doesn't matter. UC's to get around the state constitutional prohibition on using race in admissions (prop 209) have resorted to selecting a proportionate number of students. It doesn't shunt them to second tier campuses like UC Merced or UC Riverside. It places them into UC Berkeley, UCI, UCSD.

These colleges end up with low performing students. Now multiply this by the thousands of underperforming California high schools and you see why UC Berkeley has students who can't handle high school math or reading.

are there not rural white and asian communities in california?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To illustrate why California finds itself with students at its flagship colleges who can't do middle school math, much less high school math, take the case of Avenal High School.

Avenal is in the central valley, heavily Hispanic and poor. Only 12.3% of students at Avenal High met or exceeded California math standards. California uses 4 standards: Standard Exceed, Standard Met, Standard Nearly Met and Standard Not Met https://caaspp-elpac.ets.org/caaspp/DashViewReportSB?ps=true&lstTestYear=2025&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstSubGroup=1&lstGrade=13&lstSchoolType=A&lstCounty=16&lstDistrict=73932-000&lstSchool=1630953


The high school enrolls 738 students, or about 172 students in the senior class.
https://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/dqcensus/enrgrdlevels.aspx?agglevel=School&year=2025-26&cds=16739321630953

Only 21 students met or exceeded math standards in the entire senior class. (2.3% exceeded the standard, 10% met the standard)

For UC admissions:
UCI 24 applied, 15 were admitted
Berkeley 11 applied 4 were admitted
Davis 11 applied, 6 were admitted
UC Santa Cruz 19 applied, 12 were admitted

This plays out all over California, urban, suburban, rural, it doesn't matter. UC's to get around the state constitutional prohibition on using race in admissions (prop 209) have resorted to selecting a proportionate number of students. It doesn't shunt them to second tier campuses like UC Merced or UC Riverside. It places them into UC Berkeley, UCI, UCSD.

These colleges end up with low performing students. Now multiply this by the thousands of underperforming California high schools and you see why UC Berkeley has students who can't handle high school math or reading.

are there not rural white and asian communities in california?

Not in any meaningful numbers.