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[quote=Anonymous]The admissions practices are not spelling doom for the universities. It’s not harming the reputation for any of the schools. UCs have weeder classes that are truly rigorous and practice curves, usually deflationary. Reputation is based on the faculty and the top six UCs are powerhouses there with a long history of top caliber academic work. UCSB isn’t even one of the five in the top ten and they have Nobel winners.

It sucks that Bay Area kids who are far more academically capable get rejected while OOS or lower performing in state region students who can’t pass basic classes get in. It harms the regional Cal states by dropping enrollment at school better suited for average to lower performers.

However, it’s not entirely correct that the unprepared student took a spot from a more deserving kid. If all the tippy top kids from the Bay Area filled every seat, you would have highly capable kids not moving forward in their desired major. STEM subjects in particular do not infinitely scale to support unlimited students. Someone has to get cut. The unqualified kids are easy to cut and shuffle over to communications, sociology or area studies. [/quote]

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