When I was in college, I remember a person who got a D in organic chemistry and went to another college and got a B. All schools are the not same. Berkeley is a very competitive school and only students who meet the real qualifications should be admitted. There are many levels of colleges, and there are community colleges. From what I have read, the California public school system is poor and even poorer if you are a minority. Obviously, this young man was not prepared by his high school experience for Berkeley. Is the problem the young man’s lack of ability, his education, or a combination of both? I have no idea.
But the point is that it is sadistic to put someone in a top college just because of their race. Liberals think they are being “good”. Sadly, the non qualified students have a very hard time and are much more likely to drop out. And these students take the place of much more qualified students. The liberal mindset is disordered and harms people in so, so many ways.
Think a bit more about this kid’s problems:
Most all colleges today use ‘The Curve System’ for grading.
That means that if the highest score is a 70, then that becomes an “A” and gets a score of 4.0. In the Curve system, if this ‘student’ was getting a score of 1.7, I don’t want to even try to calculate what his scores were on the 100 percentile system really were. Perhaps 20???
When I went to high school, we were graded on the 100 percentile basis. Our Wisconsin high school was considered one of the best in the state at that time.
When I took accounting classes at a community college 10 years later, they were using the ‘Curve grading basis’.
There were 3 persons in those classes who consistently scored 99 or 100 in the exercises & tests. I as one of those 3. I ended up with a 4.0 average for all my classes. SOME of the others in those classes really didn’t like me or the 2 others!!!
It paid off for me. I found better jobs with those accounting class experiences & less than 10 years later, went off a paycheck & became self-employed, doing books for small businesses that didn’t need a full time bookkeeper.