re: 15% of California high school students were admitted to UC Berekeley

Really? Where did you go?

Berkeley is an excellent university.

"UC Berkeley holds the #1 ranking in the United States for Public Universities according to the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. Globally, it is ranked #7 in the same publication’s 2026 Best Global Universities list, where it is also recognized as the top public university worldwide.

In other major rankings, UC Berkeley’s best positions include:

#5 overall nationally in the Forbes 2026 rankings of Top Colleges.
#1 in Business research and #3 in Engineering research according to EduRank 2026.
#17 globally in the QS World University Rankings 2026.
#8 globally in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2025."

Grade inflation with low academic standards, and you've got a whole generation that calls itself "the most educated" that is so incompetent that they need extensive remedial math classes before taking college-level Algebra yet graduated high school with a 5.0 GPA and taking "AP math" since they were Sophomores.

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94% of students failed math and 83% failed English,

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We all went to school with bad or slow kids, that were not academia bright spots Some did not graduate high school, and some barely did.

Our bottom 5% would be in their top 10% now.

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In fairness they went to California public schools so they never had a chance.

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this blanket statement is grossly inaccurate. Palo Alto, Los Altos, Cupertino and Mountain View have excellent schools, some of the best in the nation., What the UCs are doing is using Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC), basically a quota by zip code. To reduce the number of students from higher income zip code because they have more “resources” and judging kids by how they do in the local context. This has been impacting the student body of the top 3 UC schools (Berkeley, UCLA and UCSD).
What is forgotten is that every other UC campus and All of the Cal State schools have a program where you can go to a local community college campus for free for 2 years, knocking out your core courses and saving money by living at home, then transfer into one of those major campuses and completing your degree.
The UCSD faculty has published a good bit on how many of the students showing up to campus under these new standards are NOT ready for the rigorous classes. UCSD is unique in that it is made up of 8 colleges (Revelle being the hardest and where they put most of the kids in the honors program), so they already had a system in place to help mitigate this new standard but they are still showing it’s a major problem.

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It’s not education they want to give the yutes. It’s indoctrination.

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Berkeley preys on and needs the weak-minded.

public high school graduates in California, 15% equals about 67,500

Just playing devil's advocate here, Mission HS has 262 12th graders with total enrollment of 993. If 34 of the 262 were accepted, that's 13%. Only 29% of the senior class even applied. I'm sure there was some DEI considerations going on with review of the applications, though it's unlawful, but I don't understand the math of the post.

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Only 17% of Mission High’s 11th graders scored proficient or above in English, along with a shocking 6% in math on the 2025 state assessment exam, the lowest of any school in the San Francisco Unified School District

Mission High School had a 45% acceptance rate into the elite university, with 34 out of its 76 applicants gaining admission last fall, far ahead of the state average of 15%

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What were the stats of those who gained admission?

At Berkley and all colleges/universities, the first year students that don't belong there and washout must be big business. Think of all that money.

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A 4.0+ GPA is not the same at every school.

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Back when I was in high school being recruited it was amazing on my official visits talking with literal retards that were also in my group on visits and I would look in the Jeff Whitaker or Forest Davis or whatever recruiting magazine and would see these kids had 3.0 or 4.0 listed as their GPA
Then, it was no surprise when despite having a 3.0 or 4.0 they couldn't even get an 850 on the SAT which was the minimum back then for scholarship athletes for most schools other than a handful like Stanford, SMU, Northwestern, and maybe a few others I can't remember.