U of Texas went to top 5, in addition to traditional SAT/GPA standard. Now the U. of Cal system to GPA only.
U of Texas wound up with LOTS of students in humanities by reason of the top 5 admits who wouldn’t have been admitted by reason of the SAT/GPA standard. This somewhat degraded U of Texas non-math, non-science degrees. On the other hand, it created demand for even more professors in the humanities (most of whom are Marxists). So, no complaint from them.
Shifting to U. of Cal system, they’ve moved to GPA only. This means many average students from average and less-than average high schools will be admitted.
More specifically, at U of Texas, Top 5 admits have a hard time with math and science and, so, shift to the humanities. In the U. of Cal system, many students less than Top 5, but with a high enough GPA within their inferior high school will be admitted. They will have a difficult time even in the humanities.
Will the U. of Cal system weed out these marginal and less than marginal students? Or, will the U. of Cal system markedly degrade its humanities programs to enable these students to graduate? The answer is obvious. The U. of Cal system will do what it has to, to enable an equitable number of disadvantaged students to graduate.
Let’s now shift to average students from the better high schools of California. They will be denied admission to the U. of Cal system. Because grading inevitably reflects the students actually enrolled in a high school, a GPA of “B” in an inferior high school, might be the same as a “C” in a superior high school, and so if “B” is the cut-off, it will favor those attending inferior high schools where grading is easier.
Of course, this is entire Marxist project: to eff the middle class of this country. We know we’re the new n-word. That the elite consider us to be deplorable and irredeemable. That the elite want to take away our single-family homes, our cars, our guns, our fly-away vacations, and relegate us to the status of serfs, we are to be the worker-bees of this country, competing with illegal aliens for dead-end jobs while the elite buy the votes from minorities with more and more cash and free stuff.
Anyway, what will be the recourse will be the average students from the better high schools? My first guess is the Cal State system (e.g., Cal State-Fresno).
My guess is that there will be a surge of demand for more challenging programs in the state’s “second tier” colleges, from good (but not the best) students denied admission to the U. Cal system because of admissions based only on GPA.
And so the overall California system of higher education will become more segregated by race and class. With the first tier (U. Cal system) serving the elite and the minorities, and the second tier (Cal State system) serving the middle-class.
Secondarily, there will be increased demand for private and out-of-state college, and reduced political support for public education.
As public education is transformed from providing a ticket up the socio-economic ladder for children and young adults regardless of their status at birth, into a means for the elite to consolidate their rule, it (public education) will be seen as just another tax on those who work.
True enough, I suppose, but if colleges are anything like they were in my day, even many students with high SAT scores shift to soft subjects because of the grading system in math and science. The change will make it worse, but it happens a lot even without the change.
Thanks for posting your excellent reality re California’s so called advance education.
Below is a link to what has been happening for years in California as experienced by one of our grand kids.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4014598/posts?page=66#66