| ▲ | lunar-whitey 7 hours ago | |
Illiterate incoming freshman are the product of the public middle and high school systems, not the university system. For reference: > Beginning in Fall 2022, the number of students placed into Math 2 began to grow rapidly. Math 2 was first created in 2016, and it was originally designed to be a remedial math course serving a very small number of first-year students (less than 100 students a year or around 1% of the incoming class) who were not prepared to start in our standard precalculus courses [...] In Fall 2024, the numbers of students placing into Math 2 and 3B surged further, with over 900 students in the combined Math 2 and 3B population, representing an alarming 12.5% of the incoming first-year class (compared to under 1% of the first-year students testing into these courses prior to 2021). https://senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347/sawg-report-on-admissio... These are students that even middling American public schools would have failed to pass from high school in decades past, or would have later failed to meet standardized test requirements prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. | ||
| ▲ | admissionsguy 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> Illiterate incoming freshman are the product of the public middle and high school systems, not the university system. That doesn't matter for the op's point. Students starting from this base won't get good in 4 years. | ||