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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Copying an interesting comment to the NYT article:
[quote]Elimination of SAT/ACT from University of California applications has led to a wave of unprepared and unqualified admissions— students who have no business being at a UC, and cannot do the work.

My spouse is a UC professor and she says that in 20 years she has never had so many students who are completely unqualified to attend college (and failing her class)— and this is a good UC. She teaches honors students no less.[/quote]
If this is true, I wonder if the UC administration will figure it out before the brand is damaged.[/quote]

They aren't going back. It would be good to know which UC school this is since there is a wide range of UCs. What this person said has always been true at the lesser known/newer UCs. This is why they have such a robust state system. To educated as many CA students as possible at every level. [/quote]

Commenter was from the “OC” so that probably means Irvine? Which apparently rejects nearly 80% of their applicants, so you’d think they wouldn’t have such a hard time finding capable students. [/quote]

The UC’s currently employ a system where they only look at sophomore and junior grades and cap how many advanced courses they will consider for weighted gpa at eight semesters.  Accordingly, they have tons of kids with similar numbers and who knows how they are picking who to admit.[/quote]

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