On going education is expensive and, IMO, education and state employee unions are the new millitary industrial complex.
The UC system is a giant complex beast, running a several notable hospitals, a few national labs and the campuses with research arms.
They make a lot of money, they cost a lot of money. CSU system costs a fair amount too. State spending, not school spending per student is $11251 for UC and $6799 for CSU.
It’s way down compared to the much lower admission rate days of the 70s and 80s.
As for admissions, qualified is meaningless. High schools like Uni high in Irvine crank out 1/3rd of the kids in AP glasses and 48 perfect SATs. The other Irvine schools aren’t far behind. Nor the other geared to succeed schools in OC.
So we are at a crux, do quadruple the funding to 80s level for the number of students being pushed to college or do we further restrict the number of enrollment?
JMHO, but UC didn’t become great by being high school part deux.
Our primary education system is broken. Kids are graduating high school and struggle to do more than basic arithmetic. Pick up and CC schedule and look at the prequal courses, they’re not for “returning adults”. Yet they’re enrolling in college because they need to. Because businesses want college degrees to be a paper shuffler.
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The story below is ridiculous. By all accounts, this applicant should have gotten accepted into the UC … yes, even to the “flagships.” Perhaps she was only offered Merced for being in the top 9% of her class and elected to take the 4-year full-ride scholarship offered to her on the east coast … and I don’t blame her. She’s apparently “good enough for full ride at an Ivy” … but not given the time of day at UC in her home state!
As a student at South Pasadena High School, Katherine Uriarte aced six Advanced Placement classes, got top scores on her ACT, served in student government and nailed a summer internship at Caltech.
It wasn’t enough to get into UCLA or UC Berkeley.
The daughter of a Mexican immigrant, Uriarte still realized her dream of becoming the first in her family to go to college. She is now a freshman at Columbia University in New York City with a full-ride scholarship from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But she said she felt Californians like herself were losing out to a growing tide of students from other states and countries who want to go to UC schools. /[/quote]
