UC Berkeleys ban on standardized tests produces failure as predicted

“The Task Force does not recommend that UC make standardized tests optional for applicants at this time.”That was the conclusion of a special task force appointed to study in 2020 whether the University of California (UC) should get rid of the SAT and other tests as criteria for admission.The purpose was blatant, and unconstitutional: To expand the number of black and Latino students at elite public universities, even though Proposition 209 banned the use of race in admissions.The universities were under pressure from the Black Lives Matter movement.And they were eager to comply.So then-UC president Janet Napolitano overruled the experts, and got rid of standardized testing in UC admissions.The result: Disaster, just as predicted.

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By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.Never miss a story As UC Berkeley math professor Zvezdelina Stankova has noted, students are showing up at UC Berkeley — supposedly the finest public university in the nation — without basic math skills.Instead of studying calculus, students find themselves taking remedial classes to learn fractions and middle-school algebra.By the end of college, they might just have the math skills they should have had as freshmen.Professors have to waste their time with students who never should have been admitted in the first place.Ironically, getting rid of the SATs meant that the brightest and most accomplished black and Latino students could no longer be sure of getting in.

Once the admissions criteria were broadened, almost to the point of absurdity, there was no way for the best applicants to shine.California Post News: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, WhatsApp, LinkedInCalifornia Post Sports Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, XCalifornia Post Opinion California Post Newsletters: Sign up here!...