Berkeley Defends Admitting the Stupid

NewsMax ^ | 10/17/03 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Berkeley Defends Admitting the Stupid

We figured that an SAT score of only 600 couldn't get you into the worst community college in the nation, but now we read that it will get you into the almighty University of California at Berkeley (if, of course, you have the right color of skin).

Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl is furious that the UC Board of Regents has blown the whistle on the notoriously left-wing university's ludicrously biased admissions policies.

"You have done the university a great disservice and shown open contempt for reasoned discourse about complex issues," Berdahl claimed in a letter to regents chairman John Moores, the Los Angeles Times reported today.

Moores wrote a confidential report to fellow board members revealing that Berkeley (aka Berserkley) last year let in nearly 400 students with SAT scores of only 600 to 1,000, far below the 1,337 average for the class.

Meanwhile, Berserkley refused entry to about 3,200 intelligent students with SAT scores above 1400, including more than 600 students with scores above 1500 out of the maximum 1600. Their crime, of course, is having the wrong color of skin (i.e., white or yellow or that politically incorrect shade of South Asian brown).

The lowest possible score on the SAT is 400, so a monkey picking answers at random should do better than 600.

Berdahl says he admitted the stupid students because they overcame "disadvantages" (one of those disadvantages apparently being low intelligence).

"They deserve more than derision from the chair of the Board of Regents," he wrote.

Moores responded by observing: "A little transparency is a wonderful thing - and it would be good for this university."

Moores said, "Whatever his personal agenda is for writing such a letter ... my concern always has been and continues to be that the admissions policy of the University of California be legal and fair."

Berdahl whined that the report has undermined the public's trust in Berserkley. Note to Berdahl: The truth should undermine the public's trust in Berserkley.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Robert,
You should start a TARS ping list with articles of interest to teenage Republicans/conservatives (and about TARS). Here's one for you-- since college admission is a big part of high school life.

Add me to the list, BTW, but I'll try to send you pings when I see articles.

[MayflowerMadam]

Or -- worse yet -- the physicians and engineers who graduate and receive certification as a result of this. We should all wonder if our doctors are truly competent or just a result of affirmative aaction. (Of course, to actually question this out loud in a specific situation would bring the wrath of all the P.C. police!)

[sheik yerbouty]

Their diversity is perversity.

[wayoverontheright]

Berkeley Defends Admitting the Stupid

It just isn't helpful to go at Affirmative action with an attack like this on the kids. Personal invective should be the exclusive domain of the democrats, we have too many sensible arguments on our side to resort to this.

[GunsareOK]

The best thing for students this unprepared would be a few years of prep school before college (something that might not have been necessary if they had attended a decent high school).

[lelio]

Dont' worry. You can still get into Berkeley :)

If he's the right color that is.

[truth_seeker]

"Um...so how are those students going to do in their classes?"

Historicaly the "affirmative action" students drop out/fail at very high rates. Not completing degrees.

They took up space and resources, which could have been used by a better qualified person, that would have graduated.

It would have been much more effective for EVERYONE if the affirmative action student had gone to community college, learned material to bring them up to freshman college level.

One scenario: win-win.

The present system: lose-lose.

[handk]

...it should be givened to students who are qualified.

Yeah, it should be "givened".

[alloysteel]

Berkeley is not doing that much of a service for the student who was admitted, either. Horrible visions of a person drowning, and in doing so, simply sinks to the bottom in despair. No amount of tutoring will save this victim of "liberal enlightenment".

[Teacher317]

The lowest possible score on the SAT is 400, so a monkey picking answers at random should do better than 600.

RACIST PIGS!!!!

[longtermmemmory]

does a berkly degree have any meaning?

[GunsareOK]

I think it would depend on your major and how you did on the Graduate Record Exams.

[Akira]

bump

[Sunshine Sister]

LOL! Fine post!

[george wythe]

The lowest possible score on the SAT is 400, so a monkey picking answers at random should do better than 600.

Hehehe.

There is another thread about a dog who learned to salute Hitler. I bet there are other animals besides a monkey who can score higher than 600

[Blue Screen of Death]

Anybody can score 600 by using the coin-flip and clock methods of answering.

Now you see why we need affirmative action. The coin flip tends to favor those people who have a coin to flip. Because of slavery and racism, more white people have coins than people of color.

[doc30]

I don't have the source handy, but didnt't the first black MD who entered medical school via affermative action lose his medical liscence becasue he was such a abd doctor?

[Willie Green]

Berdahl says he admitted the stupid students because they overcame "disadvantages" (one of those disadvantages apparently being low intelligence).

Well I don't think that "low intelligence" has anything to do with it.

IMHO, a low test score is solid evidence that they DIDN'T "overcome disadvantages".

Make 'em go back and repeat 4th Grade until they get it right.