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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ironically, the students who major in sociology, ethnic studies and other soft subjects end up being the ones working in education administration and setting admissions policy,  where they proceed to favor other students like them in the admissions process. part of the problem is that administrators and not actual faculty have taken control of the admissions process and student evaluation methods. [/quote]

This!! It’s not being talked about enough. This is why there’s so much stupidity in education [/quote]

While I agree that the type of person who becomes an admissions officer is not the best and brightest, they are not in control. They simple execute the directive that comes from senior leadership. It’s the board, chancellor, deans etc and it is very much a business decision. UCSD is extremely strong in some majors. If the rankings didn’t push them to admit so many kids who don’t belong there, they wouldn’t do it. They need the high ranking to attract international and out of state students for money. All UCs struggle with yield from this population so the rankings matter to them.

My son has friends who had tippy top stats, really smart and nice kids who worked incredibly hard and were rejected from every UC except Merced. They are at Purdue, Carnegie Mellon, UIUC, and Cornell doing great but racking up debt They would have loved to go to Cal, UCLA, Irvine, Davis, SD, SB or even Santa Cruz! Instead of accepting the kid that is getting top grades at Cornell, UCSD chose someone who has math skills below a middle schooler. [/quote]

I thought we were talking about education/admissions administration and policy, not the actual uni admissions. What you are saying kind of supports my statement, no? They have a directive to accept more people like them, mediocre but with the right narrative - FGLI and such. [/quote]

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