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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UC admissions is rotten as well as a good number of other aspects of UC administration.

1. State audit finding that several schools, highest count Cal, admitted kids of staff, friends, donors who did not meet A-G and gpa requirements being admitted. Cal in particular had more beyond the someone high up put the kid on the list.
2. Public statements from AOs that we are not seeking the most qualified students or being the school’s valedictorian is scored lower than saying you translated mail for your non English speaking parents.
3. UC offering to road show to other institutions how they use test blind, recommendation blind, recruitment tagging and proxy measures to achieve racial targets while claiming to not use race.
4. Doing away with counselor recommendations or any verification of what is put into applications. A Chinese American girl was dancing around giddy at our school that she got into UCLA claiming she was half AA, applying to an AA studies major, wishing to bridge the gap between Chinese and AA students, made up a web site for her organization and plans to immediately switch to a business major. The other Chinese parents think this was brilliant. Everyone knows that UC doesn’t check so the kids brag and laugh about how badly they lied and cheated to get in. 
5. The UCSD study that a good portion of students admitted to majors requiring math courses test in at the elementary or middle school level. This is not just UCSD! DC is at another UC and was surprised that his score on the placement test was more than double his dorm mates scores , he’s social science and they are STEM. 
6. UC is so focused on pumping in more FGLI that it is now cheaper for low income students to go to a UC than Cal state. This is increasing costs and reducing resources for kids that meet the basic requirements and belong there. 
7. UCs are abusing a loophole for visiting researchers, faculty and students to get around the state restriction on number of non instate students. Research labs are filled with Chinese nationals removing opportunities for regular UC grad students and for the few that get a spot difficult because everyone is speaking Chinese.[/quote]

We're CA residents so while this (if verifiable and true) is disappointing, it just means UCs really aren't a "prize" for top students anymore. It's not the intellectual community worth entering.

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