Low-Grade Fever
5th April 2023
Last week, millions of college acceptances and rejections were sent out to high school seniors. While the 2023 data won’t be available for some time, using 2022 numbers we can now begin to assess the impact of 2020’s dual body blows to higher education: the “racial reckoning” and the Covid-excused Not So Great Reset in which standards were lowered and policies made lazier and stupider.
I’ll focus on the 2022 admissions statistics for the most famous public college system, the ten-campus University of California.