UC makes landmark decision to drop ACT and SAT requirement for admission

Proof of intelligence is racist

Awesome.

Remove the only objective standard for admission so admissions can be strictly based on feels.

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They are an elite public university system and can make their own choices. They are still going to admit high quality students. But I do not see this being able to work for lesser university systems.

ETA so many downvotes but no actual substantive responses. Sorry I triggered you snowflakes

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the standardized tests unfairly discriminate against disadvantaged students or provide a useful tool to evaluate college applicants

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The ability to self-teach and perform well on an exam is apparently a bad measure of one's ability to self-teach and perform well on exams for the next 4 years.

Who knew?

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They are an elite public university system and can make their own choices. They are still going to admit high quality students.

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Supposedly they are going to develop their own test.

Personally I believe that one-size fits all standardized testing misses some. I did not do as well on standardized format as I did on essay where I could explain my reasoning.

Like I said, I don't object to looking at alternative ways to judge potential students but it's pretty clear that this is about driving a social result rather than finding the best students.

LSU used to have Open Admissions. The tuition was affordable,you could earn enough from part-time/summer jobs, we lived in some sad un-air-conditioned dorms. Large numbers failed,brushed off their bruised ego's and most went on to become successful citizens despite their stumble. The system worked.

It hurt L.S.U.'s national numbers though. Translations: All that federal loan money was going to Northeast Universities and Louisiana wanted their cut.
Now we have LSU shaped swimming pools and students going into lifelong debt to pay for bloated administrative salaries

The sad thing is this new move by Universities nation wide is just to milk the next generations, come one, come all and (at only $40,000 a year) party your future away.

Back in the day, a high school diploma meant you could competently read, write, and do arithmetic through basic algebra.

Then they cheapened it. Soon the HS diploma and its even cheaper equivalents (proof of nothing) were only proof that you sat through 12 years of school because you’d get the paper even if you couldn’t pass HS freshman courses! Maybe you were, maybe you weren’t.

Soon jobs that require the former proof of competence of the old HS diploma began requiring a bachelors.

Now California is dumbing that down. And the moron who wrote this article thinks the world with accept their libtarded lunacy. Soon like a HS diploma and its even cheaper equivalents, a California BS or BA will not be worth the paper it’s printed on!

But here is the bottom line. California schools are mal-educating a whole generation! California higher education teacher-professor positions are in jeopardy from this and the future Internet classes with extremely high student to professor ratios. And academia is an important component of the DNC/MSM Political Complex of leftist.

The way the socialist operate is: the media controlles the agenda, the Democrats intact the agenda, the academicians normalize the agenda, the entertainers make it popular, and the libtards enact the agenda by watching the media, voting democrat, watching movies and tv, and voting to subsidize academia through government tuition loans and eventually free college.

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The regents approved President Janet Napolitano's five-year plan to phase out the testing requirements and develop an assessment of its own.

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Janet Napolitano is the system President, which means there is a decent chance that the university firebombs some kids.

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"We are removing the ACT/SAT requirement for California students and developing a new test that more closely aligns with what we expect incoming students to know to demonstrate their preparedness for UC."

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Schools like UC Santa Barbara and UC Davis graduation rates will drop to 45%