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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The dirty little secret of the UC's is that they select a certain percentage from each high school, whether that high school is an overperforming one in Palo Alto or Irvine or an underperforming one in LAUSD.

Prior to tests being banned, the average SAT scores were low, below 1300 at most campuses.

Now that SATs are banned, the equity drive has seen the UC system oversubscribed with low performing students.

Hopefully these students can get the remediation they deserve so they can thrive in more difficult classes.[/quote]

Agree. Although it’s not a “secret” - the admissions data is right on the UC website for everyone to see.

Kids from these low performing schools have major deficiencies. [/quote]
But that’s kinda the point. I’m wondering if few dcum parents went to state schools.

I did. There were people in my class of all abilities and levels of education- that made the education stronger. Sure, some people took longer because they were starting from a weaker set of base knowledge but that isn’t inherently bad or a reason to dismiss their abilities. We shouldn’t punish people from accessing a quality state university education just because they did the best in the environment they were in. Now you can argue that we have an issue if grade inflation or what have you, but a 3.2 or 4.0 wouldn’t have changed the fact that these were the students who were the best at their high schools either way. [/quote]

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