I know. That was part of my point. They are being admitted for the color of their skin, their sexuality, nationality, etc., all the while being allowed to do things such as write their names on tests, and nothing else, and get a D- to pass the classes.
In medical schools, Pass/Fail are the new grades. No one fails. A student can be absent and still get passed through.
As a physics prof, my dad had to deal with Chinese cheating on exams (native born and foreign students).
So there is an issue there, but nothing like the woke capture of STEM.
It is not only undergraduate selection and preferences. The selection for future faculty is also absolutely poisoned.
Potential Graduate students in STEM have to demonstrate how they will enhance DEI. And more of the same for assignment of doctoral students, PHD awards, tenure track hiring, tenure.
Even the grant process in the sciences is now poisoned by DEI requirements.
The DC Globohomo Regime is starting from a 10:1 deficit in STEM, and they are poisoning what remains.
Some are skeptical when I predict that the Regime is absolutely going to collapse like the USSR. But you put diversity STEM graduates in charge of very complex technical systems and you are going to have some wrecks that are not repairable.
Even during the worse of the USSR collapse, the electric power still stayed on. I don’t think it will be the same for the DC Regime collapse.