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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am California native and I support the UC's approach.  Citizen/taxpayers of CA pay for the UCs and its mission is to educate the best and brightest Californians.  They use "local context" to identify the top 9% from every Ca high school, including private schools,  and guarantee admission to all of them, though don't guarantee which campus (Merced is the auto admit default).   Yes that means that the top 9% from under resourced public schools too, so some of those kids have learning gaps and the UC's have support to help them.
Testing would not change this as they would still admit the top 9% by school including from those high schools that most on this board don't care about  . . . .[/quote]

Unfortunately, the best and the brightest can not be assumed to be evenly distributed throughout the state. It makes sense that kids in affluent and well educated communities end up better prepared by the end of K-12. Due to some
combination of heritable characteristics  from educated/affluent parents (IQ is approx 50% heritable) and greater access over many years to better resources to develop that academic potential. Trying to make up for it at the college level is too late. This remediation work needs to be carried out starting from early elementary. At a certain age, the students’ absolute preparation level is more important than one’s undeveloped “potential” from a college success/job readiness standpoint. [/quote]

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