UCSD Report on Admissions
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Over the past five years, UC San Diego has experienced a steep decline in the academic
preparation of its entering first-year students -- particularly in mathematics, but also in writing
and language skills. Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall
below middle-school level increased nearly thirtyfold, reaching roughly one in eight members of
the entering cohort. This deterioration coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on
education, the elimination of standardized testing, grade inflation, and the expansion of
admissions from under-resourced high schools. The combination of these factors has produced
an incoming class increasingly unprepared for the quantitative and analytical rigor expected at
UC San Diego.
The Senate–Administration Working Group on Admissions (SAWG) concludes that this trend
poses serious challenges both to student success and to the university’s instructional mission.
Admitting large numbers of underprepared students risks harming those students and straining
limited instructional resources. The report offers a series of recommendations to improve the
alignment between admissions practices, student readiness, and available support systems.
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This is from what is ranked as the fifth best public university in the nation. Half the students can't do eighth grade math.
So much blame to go around, the teachers unions and politicians who shut schools to make their lives easier, the woke administrators who got rid of standardized testing in the name of equity which also led to the expansion of admissions from under-resourced high schools.
This has to stop. It does no favors to unqualified kids to put them in classes with those who are and it hurts the deserving kids too.
25% of students got 7 + 2 = ___ + 6 wrong
• 61% of students, a large majority, couldn’t round 374,518 to the nearest hundred
• 37% of students couldn't subtract fractions
Again, this is a "good" public university..
The whole thing is worth reading. The authors are surprisingly honest about how bad things are and impossible the task of trying to teach both at a grammar and university level at the same time is.
That may be true, but the important thing is equity. We need more diversity. / S
Don't worry. Trump just opened the border for 600,000 Chinese students. The University will be fine.