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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Failure to use the SAT in admissions is making the University of California system look like a clown-car.  [/quote]

Except it isn’t. UC is the best public higher education system in the country. 5 of its schools - UCLA, Cal, SD, Davis and Irvine are in the top 10 national public schools in the country.

UC approaches admissions strategically as a business. The politics of California and methodologies of US News require that a percentage of seats go to unqualified kids. UC schools are very large so they can afford to give up a % of seats to unqualified kids without diluting their grand. There are enough tippy top students in the Bay Area, parts of LA and parts of San Diego to keep the rigor up, continue to produce and attract world class researchers and scholars etc.

UC schools also have always had a weeder strategy. For many majors, there are difficult weeder classes that are curved to only allow the  top desired % to remain in the major. There’s a joke at Cal that the business school is filled with kids who couldn’t hack engineering. There are also a bunch of majors at all UCs with easier requirements and courses, sociology, ethnic studies, agricultural business etc. The unqualified kids get shuffled into those and don’t detract from the brand.[/quote]

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