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A Great University Undermines Its Mission – Bring Back the SAT, California
- ChrisArchitect 4mo agonon-paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/opinion/university-california-sat-testing-admissions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.v1A.5Nlj.s2ro1dSTcI_1&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/opinion/university-califo...
- PaulHoule 4mo agoThe money shot: High test scores were particularly good at finding talented students from low-income families and underrepresented minority groups
- mhb 4mo agoAlso: Last fall, for example, nearly 12 percent of first-year U.C.S.D. undergraduates were not qualified to take pre-calculus, a low-level class, up from only 0.5 percent in 2020. “The key problem is that many of the students coming in do not know algebra,” said Mina Aganagic, a Berkeley physics professor. More than half of entering Berkeley students who took a math placement test incorrectly answered basic questions (such as solving for x in x²> 4).