UC strongly favors applicants with poor math skills. The worse a school is at Math, the higher the admission rate.

[Anonymous]

UC strongly favors applicants with poor math skills. The worse a school is at Math, the higher the admission rate.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-data-ucsds-math-horror-show-matthias-blume-dpikc
The figure in the link shows that, the lower a school's math pass rate, the higher the UC admission rate.

UC is not necessarily selecting "the best students". But they are systemically and consciously taking in gifted kids from under-resourced schools, thus changing the life trajectories of these students. And I think that should be a state school's mission.

UVA should do the same.

[Anonymous]

There are less students from low resource schools applying to Berkeley and UCLA. Why is this not at all discussed?

[Anonymous]

What is this nonsense?

[Anonymous]

Based on the data from this same article, 54 percent of California high schools are low performing in math and a little less than 2 percent are high performing. So just by sheer numbers, the majority of students would be coming from a school that is low performing in math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are less students from low resource schools applying to Berkeley and UCLA. Why is this not at all discussed?

"Fewer," not "less".

[Anonymous]

Goodness, you strivers are vicious.

[Anonymous]

So, going to an under resourced school helps with UC admissions significantly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, going to an under resourced school helps with UC admissions significantly.

Yes, which was known decades ago.

[Anonymous]

Not necessarily true according to the relatives who got in oos

[Anonymous]

California's broken college system has already been talked about. Everyone knows the undergraduate students are lacking in foundational math.

California gets around Proposition 209 by using an equity driven admissions process.

Whether the reputational damage it is suffering right now makes it change course is up for debate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:California's broken college system has already been talked about. Everyone knows the undergraduate students are lacking in foundational math.

California gets around Proposition 209 by using an equity driven admissions process.

Whether the reputational damage it is suffering right now makes it change course is up for debate.

I don't understand how this damages the reputation. You still fail if you can't make it passed the classes. Professors don't grade on preparation, they grade on output. If someone works harder and fixes their gaps, they have shown they can survive amongst 100s of others who are more prepared than them and thrive. That's commendable. Is the equity stuff efficient? No, of course not. But, it is not going to change the courses themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:California's broken college system has already been talked about. Everyone knows the undergraduate students are lacking in foundational math.

California gets around Proposition 209 by using an equity driven admissions process.

Whether the reputational damage it is suffering right now makes it change course is up for debate.

I don't understand how this damages the reputation. You still fail if you can't make it passed the classes. Professors don't grade on preparation, they grade on output. If someone works harder and fixes their gaps, they have shown they can survive amongst 100s of others who are more prepared than them and thrive. That's commendable. Is the equity stuff efficient? No, of course not. But, it is not going to change the courses themselves.

It is simple. Recruiters will just skip the resumes.

[Anonymous]

Is DCUM becoming simply CUM with all these California posters? So annoying. Why can't they just post in their own section? We don't care about the UCs. Very small % of DMV students go or want to go there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:California's broken college system has already been talked about. Everyone knows the undergraduate students are lacking in foundational math.

California gets around Proposition 209 by using an equity driven admissions process.

Whether the reputational damage it is suffering right now makes it change course is up for debate.

I don't understand how this damages the reputation. You still fail if you can't make it passed the classes. Professors don't grade on preparation, they grade on output. If someone works harder and fixes their gaps, they have shown they can survive amongst 100s of others who are more prepared than them and thrive. That's commendable. Is the equity stuff efficient? No, of course not. But, it is not going to change the courses themselves.

It is simple. Recruiters will just skip the resumes.

As they've done with all the schools where faculty have complained about diminishing student quality. That just brings us to skipping over... Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Caltech, Dartmouth, SMU, BU, Cornell, Uchicago, Notre Dame, Wellesley, UVA, Reed, Georgetown, ...,anyone wanna add to the list?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:California's broken college system has already been talked about. Everyone knows the undergraduate students are lacking in foundational math.

California gets around Proposition 209 by using an equity driven admissions process.

Whether the reputational damage it is suffering right now makes it change course is up for debate.

I don't understand how this damages the reputation. You still fail if you can't make it passed the classes. Professors don't grade on preparation, they grade on output. If someone works harder and fixes their gaps, they have shown they can survive amongst 100s of others who are more prepared than them and thrive. That's commendable. Is the equity stuff efficient? No, of course not. But, it is not going to change the courses themselves.

It is simple. Recruiters will just skip the resumes.

As they've done with all the schools where faculty have complained about diminishing student quality. That just brings us to skipping over... Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Caltech, Dartmouth, SMU, BU, Cornell, Uchicago, Notre Dame, Wellesley, UVA, Reed, Georgetown, ...,anyone wanna add to the list?

+1. No one cares about the recruiters skipping resumes in fantasyland.