re: Over 280 Cal STEM faculty say that school admissions needs to go back to the old ways

The humanities nerds must be fuming

No shite

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Yes it was much better back in the day when only the slack jawed dead eyed inbred frick sons of wealthy and well connected white people were allowed to have an education....sometime before the GI bill for instance

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Who here is talking about before the GI bill? They are talking about last decade when ACT/SAT scores counted. You seem rather emotional about this, Sally.

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Over 280 Cal STEM faculty say

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Yes it was much better back in the day when only the slack jawed dead eyed inbred frick sons of wealthy and well connected white people were allowed to have an education..

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this specific example essentially never existed. for people obsessed with “teaching real history”, you seem hellbent on the most childish version of revisionism

That was an impressive two consecutive posts of WTF? I lost track of the straw men. Well done!!

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Yes it was much better back in the day when only the slack jawed dead eyed inbred frick sons of wealthy and well connected white people were allowed to have an education....sometime before the GI bill for instance. The fear of competition based on merit is sooooo overwhelmingly strong in the anit DEI crowd...and the reason is abundantly clear....they can't compete on merit and must rely on connections and biases and fear and ignorance or they find themselves mired in middle management and eking out a living from the hard scrabble dirt that is corporate America....sad

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Impressive melt grandpaw, but you accidentally argued against your own point.

Standardized tests are one of the few admissions tools that don’t care who your parents are, what school board approved your inflated GPA, or how poetic your essay about “overcoming adversity as a BIPOC” was. A math score is a math score.

The UC STEM faculty aren’t asking to bring back aristocracy. They’re asking whether a kid applying for STEM can actually do the math required for STEM. You hate it, I know, we all know.

Those arse hole pushed DEI.


Skin color over abilities

There is a reason using a combo of standardized tests scores in addition to gpa worked before all this foolishness.

Good GPA can be gotten at a dumb school or one with too much grade inflation.

Dumb people can't get a good standardized test score.

A good test score with average grades can identify a smart person that is otherwise lazy.

The test/grade combo is the best method we have

Did you cry while typing that drivel