Overview
- This fall, 665 freshmen—8.5% of the class—were placed into UCSD’s remedial Math 2 course, up from 32 students, or 0.5%, five years ago.
- Assessment samples cited in the report show some incoming students missed basic addition and could not round 374,518 to the nearest hundred.
- The working group attributes the rise in underprepared students to COVID-era learning loss, the removal of SAT/ACT from UC admissions, grade inflation, and expanded admissions from under-resourced high schools.
- UCSD warns that enrolling many profoundly underprepared students risks harming those students and straining limited instructional capacity, with similar concerns noted at other UC campuses.
- Campus Senate and administrative bodies will review the recommendations in the coming weeks, as statewide metrics tout rising graduation and college‑career readiness while PPIC reports only 22% are college‑ready by test scores.