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re: Nearly 1 in 8 Freshmen at UC San Diego cannot do HS Math

Posted on 7/3/26 at 2:12 pm to
Posted by Sofaking2
Member since Apr 2023
21732 posts
Posted on 7/3/26 at 2:12 pm to
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quote: SAT and ACT scores removed a consistent measure of math preparation. I think I found the problem. If only we could have predicted this result.

Yep, standardized tests are very important in our society. Everyone takes the same ACT or SAT and students from different schools can be evaluated. We all know a school like Jesuit New Orleans isn’t the same as Tara High School Baton Rouge.
This post was edited on 7/3/26 at 2:13 pm
Posted by i am dan
NC
Member since Aug 2011
32038 posts
Posted on 7/3/26 at 2:16 pm to
I probably can't do some of my high school math anymore.

I took advanced math all through high school. I bet I forgot some of that stuff.
Posted by DesScorp
Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
10532 posts
Posted on 7/3/26 at 2:20 pm to
DEI admissions mean DEI students.
Posted by Lawyered
The Sip
Member since Oct 2016
38563 posts
Posted on 7/3/26 at 2:30 pm to
Getting rid of testing for admissions has its drawbacks
Posted by BOSCEAUX
Where the Down Boys go.
Member since Mar 2008
52756 posts
Posted on 7/3/26 at 2:42 pm to
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HS math varies, are we talking 2+2 or advanced trig?


At least Geometry and Algebra I’d assume. High School grades are a joke today. All schools need to require ACT/SAT again.
Posted by LSUtoBOOT
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 7/3/26 at 2:46 pm to
Posted by Friscodog
Frisco, TX
Member since Jul 2009
5125 posts
Posted on 7/3/26 at 2:49 pm to
If I had a son today, I would not strongly encourage him to go to college unless he was looking at some type of STEM field. I would encourage him to get some type of a skill such as electrician or plumber and go to a community college for an associates in business so that once he becomes a master plumber or electrician he could start his own business and know a little something of how that should work.

Posted by UncleRuckus
Member since Feb 2013
10159 posts
Posted on 7/3/26 at 2:51 pm to
No child left behind was a deliberate policy to make America dumber. It worked
Posted by SECCaptain
Member since Jun 2025
2291 posts
Posted on 7/3/26 at 2:58 pm to
I dated someone that went to UCSD, despite the uni's ranking/selectivity/reputation as a school for nerds, I was surprised by how average most students were
Posted by Pepe Lepew
Looney tuned .....
Member since Oct 2008
38895 posts
Posted on 7/3/26 at 3:02 pm to
It ain’t mathing
Posted by Bourre
Da Parish
Member since Nov 2012
24043 posts
Posted on 7/3/26 at 3:03 pm to
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The post-COVID impact will be felt for years.


Don’t let the DEI leftist education policies off the hook too. States like California decided it was more important to create social activist over educating kids on math, science, reading, etc. Remember the leftist saying math is racist? This was always their goal
Posted by UFFan
Planet earth, Milky Way Galaxy
Member since Aug 2016
3482 posts
Posted on 7/3/26 at 3:05 pm to
COVID lockdowns didn’t help, but I think the main difference is the elimination of SAT scores.
Posted by RemyLeBeau
Member since Mar 2015
1919 posts
Posted on 7/3/26 at 3:09 pm to
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Nearly 1 in 8 Freshmen at UC San Diego cannot do HS Math


How is it LA, MS, AL constantly gets thrown under the bus as last in education, yet we routinely see stories like this from Baltimore, Illinois, California, Philadelphia, etc?

Not saying we haven't always been at the bottom, but it's not like all of the students from the other 47 States are rocket scientists.
Posted by Archives
Member since Mar 2026
549 posts
Posted on 7/3/26 at 3:22 pm to
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How is it LA, MS, AL constantly gets thrown under the bus as last in education,

Because we are the ONLY group of humans that are allowed to be openly slandered. (but you're not allowed that any potential lower numbers could come from minority Southern residents.)
Posted by Scruffy
Kansas City
Member since Jul 2011
77630 posts
Posted on 7/3/26 at 3:27 pm to
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Now do the OT.
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Now do the OT.
This actually is the craziest part.

UCSD is a Top 25 school.

Imagine these percentages at LSU, ULL, Ole Miss, Southern, etc.
This post was edited on 7/3/26 at 3:28 pm
Posted by DVinBR
Member since Jan 2013
15864 posts
Posted on 7/3/26 at 3:36 pm to
any math that doesn't count toward a degree

like pre-algebra or algebra
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