<p>i dunno.. still waiting on USC but if not then its off to UCSD.</p>
<p>it's intriguing to see posters so lucid about what others say in just a few lines, how they jump to conclusions, and how personal they get. if you might have read what i said the point was about fairness, not about questioning the intellect of community college students. as hobo points out, university faculty are rarely if ever involved in any way with admissions. that's the job of staff people, many of whom don't even have a master's degree. our job is as stated research--advancing the frontiers of knowledge--along with teaching and then service, like on university committees. we have almost no interface with community colleges since those faculties typically do not even hold doctoral degrees and do almost no research. i like many of my colleagues have incorrectly presumed that the CC feeder students were all high achievers.</p>
<p>had you read the post the point was that it seems unfair that a high school senior (perhaps like hobo) pulls a 3.75 with perhaps some Bs in tough AP classes at a highly competitive prep school and gets rejected by UCSD but somebody else scrapes by with a C plus average--which for some departments is below the mean score of all grades--in a community college against much less competitive competition and gets in. that seems to send the wrong message to parents who are paying the taxes and much of the college bills. it also makes one wonder how fair this is for someone going into the third year of an elite university who must somehow keep up academically. i now wonder how many of my underperforming students are products of this way in.</p>
<p>how do you high school seniors feel about this policy? does this seem fair?</p>
<p>btw hobo, USC has moved up the academic ladder more quickly of late than almost any other university in the nation. good luck, but be comforted that life in la jolla won't be bad either.</p>
<p>socalgirl11, you've just given me hope. <3</p>
<p>what was so great about the uc campus you visited?</p>
<p>drj - I wouldn't say it's what you said, but how you said it that makes you seem "unprofessor-like." Everyone has their opinions, but it is usually the immature high school students that say things in a rude manner. Often the adults and older students give their opinion in a mature, unoffensive way. While I agree with what you said - that a 2.8 at a CC should certainly not guarantee someone admission to a university where ppl were being rejected with far higher GPAs in high school - I think you could have put it in a more respectful manner.</p>
<p>this a joke, stop referring to drj's posts...this fool is obviously not a professor.</p>