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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UC San Diego admitted 26 students from Lincoln High School in San Diego.  Only 12 students in the entire senior class met California's basic high school math standards on their CAASP test.  Only 4% even pass an AP exam.

UC San Diego isn't getting the best and brightest from California.  It is getting the best and brightest from each high school.  The problem is a large proportion of their high schools have extreme low performers and no high performers.

So here we are. College students who are barely literate and with math skills of 5th graders.[/quote]

The problem is not that the UCs are taking in decent students from rotten schools.

The acute problem is that the UCs can’t provide remedial instruction for those students.

The long-term problem is that the state hasn’t figure out to offer these students access to better classes, at least online, while the students are still in high school. [/quote]

UC’s mission is not to be in the business of providing remedial education. UC’s strength is research and graduate programs.Due to their focus on equity and access they are turning away many kids who have the academic preparation to fully take advantage of those opportunities and instead admitting kids who may need several semesters, possibly years of remedial courses to get to that baseline.  It would
make so much more
sense for these students to get the remediation they need at the community colleges , where the professors actually focus on teaching, and then transfer once they have shown they are capable of doing the work, with the GPA/transcript to prove it. It would also be a lot cheaper too, for the students. [/quote]
No they just accept a ton of students. There are very few people leaving Berkeley who are academically ready for the challenge of a rigorous post-secondary education, even fewer who could get through a Berkeley grad program, but Berkeley is a massive place, so there are many of their students all over the US.[/quote]

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