UC Berkeley, the world's top-ranked public university, is admitting
student athletes with shockingly low grades and scores if they show
promise as revenue-generating football or basketball players, say two
Cal scholars whose new study helps explain why athletes on campus have
the worst graduation rates in the country. While the highly
competitive university routinely turns away applicants who earn straight
A's in high school, it has also been admitting student athletes on full
scholarship even if their average high school grade was a B-minus. Its
policy, in fact, permits a C average.Also disparate is the way Cal evaluates students' scores on the SAT college
admissions test. While most applicants with low scores are turned away,
athletes who average just 370 out of a possible 800 in each subject -
math, critical reading and writing - are invited to enroll...
Full story at http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Cal-s-shockingly-low-athletic-admission-standards-4984721.php
Well, they have to fill that new black-hole-for-money stadium somehow. Yet another grand capital project for UC. Luckily, we have no grand capital projects at UCLA. (Or do we?)
Shocking!
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