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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are ganging up on UC’s, but if it’s a problem at UC’s then it’s a problem at most schools that recruit low-income students in a TO environment.

I work with low income students who participate in targeted college-prep programs and they uniformly have very low scores. Anything from 700-1000.

I think that’s just the reality of working with students who come from generational poverty or who are recent immigrants. [/quote] Their math abilities are likely comparable to what their test scores suggest. These kids should go to CC to get remedial education. UCs are meant to be flagships for the brightest students in the state.[/quote]
These are the brightest students in some school districts, however. There are 9 undergraduate UC campuses that serve as the flagship; meanwhile, the most comparable state in population, Texas, only has 2 flagship institutions-UT and TAMU. We should expect outside of UCLA and UC Berkeley that the student quality would weaken as the best students tend to gravitate towards those two institutions and the other 7 institutions choose between valedictorians and salutatorians of weaker public schools in the state. Sadly, for DCUM, the mission of these public institutions is not to gatekeep their education from those who have suffered a worse education system but to actually bring the state together, in order to improve the state of California.[/quote]

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