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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do any of you want to actually talk about the quality of different top schools? Or just rant about admissions practices?[/quote]

Blind admissions and high percentage test optional admissions does go to the overall quality of the school.[/quote]

Please describe, in detail and with concrete examples, the exact differences in quality among top publics that are seen based on these admissions practices. Not in the abstract, but the actual quality differences experienced by students across different institutions, and again backed up by concrete examples or data. Particularly since most publics are still test optional.

Please also elaborate on why these differences are more impactful, in your view, than the quality of individual departments and professors, availability and breadth of courses, teaching quality, career and graduate school outcomes, program-specific opportunities, outside-of-class opportunities, and graduation rates, among other metrics of quality. We’ll all wait.[/quote]

Another Top Public already did the research for you and switched course on test optional.  Enjoy the read.

https://news.utexas.edu/2024/03/11/ut-austin-reinstates-standardized-test-scores-in-admissions/[/quote]

None of this says anything about quality between different public schools. None of it says anything about other students’ experience. It just says that kids that submit do better at school than kids that don’t. You have failed the assignment.[/quote]

Of course it does.  Peer group is one of the most important characterisitics of a college.  The test blind/test optional schools have less consistent quality in peer group.
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And what are all of these other public universities that are test required? This is what is being discussed. The articles have nothing to do with that question.

And failing once again to confront any other assessment of a university’s quality beyond the test scores of its students. [/quote]

Other than Florida and Texas, what are these other top public universities REQUIRING a standardized test score?[/quote]

That’s exactly the question. That’s why this whole debate over test optional in what is supposed to be a discussion about top publics is stupid. They are almost all test optional, so evaluate them on other criteria (which you should do even if you had the test scores, because there is a lot else to evaluate). But the kids and strivers commenting here can’t, because they don’t know anything about college other than obsessing over tests they want to pass.[/quote]

Obviously. Well, there’s a disgruntled TA, sent packing by UCLA years ago, who haunts this forum and devotes his energies to denigrating UCLA, the UC system and presumably anything that has ever crossed his path. He promotes misinformation, like “lectures with 1,500 students”, “the only instructor your kid will ever see is a TA”, and “it will take 27 years for your kid to graduate”.

It’s exhausting. I don’t even have a personal association with the UC system, aside from an extended family member who is a current student and I’ve hired several Cal and UCLA graduates in the past - in all of those few connections, I’ve personally been aware that the individuals (including my extended family member) were absolute superstars when it came to standardized testing.

Anyway …[/quote]

How can you be this dumb to imagine a TA fantasy and keep posting about it?[/quote]

Not PP but the person PP was responding to. The disgruntled UCLA TA is a notorious poster here. Nothing imagined about it.[/quote]

PP here - yeah, that genie isn’t going back in the bottle. It’s not imagined, and it’s almost certain that you’re at it again, back for an encore performance of “I hate UCLA and lemme tell you why!” ...

The  “former TA at UCLA” schtick is well past old at this point. You seize upon every thread where UCLA is mentioned to paint a portrait that takes some of the negative aspects of the UC system (that affect all large public university systems) and amplify them to comical proportions. Class sizes are in the thousands. Only TAs instruct. Nobody graduates on time. The rankings and reputation are undeserved, and everything has gone downhill. It’s the same nonsense.

The UCLA TA has a tantrum and restates the same nonsense whenever UCLA or the UC system is brought up in a thread.

I’ve already disclosed my reference points. A family member and multiple hires in my lab, all superstars on the standardized testing front.

I forgot to add that not only did my extended family member blow the doors off their standardized testing a few years ago, I was reminded this afternoon that they also had an absolute wall of 5s on around 15 AP exams at the time of application. All 5s. Four Top 10 acceptances, including 2 HYPSM acceptances, and they CHOSE the UC system over those higher-ranked options. That doesn’t sound like a low performer to me, but ymmv.

Additionally, the RAs and postdocs I’ve hired from the UC system have all been excellent - exceptional (Top 10%), as well. Not a single outlier. All either on their way or already across the finish line of doctoral work in a rigorous STEM field.

And finally, the most important point. Every one of these individuals, PARTICULARLY the ones from UCLA, have absolutely gushed when talking about their UC experiences. By far, the self-reported level of satisfaction of the UCLA graduates (undergraduate, grad school) has been the highest of anyone I’ve had in my lab over the past 20 years.

Not a massive sample size, but what it yields is wholly compatible with many other data points (including the college search experiences of my own children, their friends, the children of my friends and colleagues, etc.).

The UC system isn’t right for everyone. It has shortcomings, like all schools. But for the vast majority of individuals without an ax to grind, the rankings and reputation are well-deserved.

Last point: I personally dislike the UC’s test blind system. It nullifies the strongest aspect in the profile of many applicants who don’t have perfect grades because they just have’t worked out the executive functioning thing quite yet. That was me as a HS junior!

I loathe what Janet Napolitano did. And I loathe that the Regents defied the vote of faculty. But it is what it is for now.

Former UCLA TA, I hope you let this vebdetta go at some point. Best of luck.[/quote]

UC is not test blind for graduate admissions 
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