University of Cali system votes to scrap SAT and ACT as admission requirement...because...

Ever since the founding of the United States, college has been viewed as a mark of higher learning, a mark of distinction.  This is now about to end, thanks to the morons who run the University of California system.  Here's how:
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Last Thursday the regents of the University of California agreed with virtue-signalling queen Janet Napolitano to stop using the SAT and ACT exams as criteria for college admission.  The vote was 23-0.

Activists have argued for years that "it's UNFAIR" for colleges to use standardized tests for admissions.  And what's their reasoning?  Because minority students score, on average, lower than their white classmates.  Activists argue that the lower scores result entirely from the fact that more whites can afford to pay for pricey test preparation.

Typical is this quote from Regent Cecilia Estolano: "The test is a proxy for privilege."

More than 1,000 colleges and universities have made the two tests optional--and the pace of schools dropping the exam is accelerating in recent years, ostensibly in an attempt to level the admissions playing field.  But a big factor may simply be virtue-signalling.

Ms. Napolitano proposed that the UC system have four years to develop a new exam.  If it fails to create or adopt one, then it likely would cease to use any exam.  Most experts don't believe a new exam will be implemented.

In 2018 a faculty committee began a review of the use of the exam. In February it recommended that the system continue to use the exams, arguing that applicants' scores on the SAT and ACT are better predictors of college success than high school grades.

But the issue was decided last December, as "students and community groups" sued the UC system, alleging that requiring applicants to submit ACT or SAT scores discriminates against racial and ethnic minorities and low-income applicants.

Experts point out that every single library in the U.S. has prep books for both these admission tests. 
There is no barrier.  While it's certainly true that children of wealthy families can pay for prep courses, are we now arguing that inequality in wealth is evidence of discrimination?  That's a communist line that goes back 150 years.

What do you think happens if the morons running the UC system drop the standards for admission?

Yep...sets unqualified students up for failure.  The UC system is already spending hundreds of millions per year on remedial courses for students who can't do basic math.  But the regents and Napolitano claim we need MORE of that.

Our institutions are being run by morons.  But at least they feel very virtuous.  And that's what really matters, right?

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