Makes sense, you’re right that it doesn’t seem any of that really is contingent on training PhDs yourself.
I guess there is just so much inertia of these programs existing and also just seen as a public good to provide opportunity to train PhDs consistent with an overall mission of a public institution to educate the population?
Just came across this. Haven’t looked closely, but on its face it seems really dumb.
https://x.com/nkhlshgrprsd/status/1781906893033873664?s=46&t=5Y4DrgHazxMWQ9paU0HR7w
It does look dumb, but it’s criteria for students changing majors into a selective major after entering college, so probably doesn’t affect a lot of people. And if their dream was to be in major X they accepted admission without being in the major. Also, there appear to be non-selective majors adjacent to selective majors. You could like take most or all of the same classes without being in major X.
This makes no sense. If I understand it correctly, let’s say we’re down to two students for one spot, both of whom are already students at UCSD:
Student1 : 4.0 GPA in screening courses
Student2 : 2.0 GPA in screening courses, California Resident and Pell Grant Eligible
Student2 gets the spot?
I think there an argument that favoring the instate students is OK given its part of Cali state government so in ranking the missions of the school educating Californians is probably more important than educating the country as a whole.
I assume the whole reason for taking out of state students in first place is for the benefit of instate students by allowing them to go to a more prestigious/diverse school and to generate more revenue from out of state students instead of that cost going to in state students.
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I’m amazed it’s allowed tbh
I’m in a couple discord servers where kids will pop up mid-day and start posting from math class and it blows my mind. Thank god that wasn’t a thing when I was younger
But how do the kids go about informing their parents of that week’s school shooting without their phones?
Can’t imagine how bad teenagers have it with access to the internet on cell phones 24x7. There is no escape from bullying, judgment and gossip. Your home is no longer a potential safe space for kids who had that.
How is “kids with test scores had better grades” a big finding?
Also notice how these stories are almost always about the Ivies which educate less than half a percent of the nation’s undergraduates. Write me a headline about the car market being terrible for Americans and please make it entirely about some inside baseball aspect of Rolls Royce financing.
I was thinking about this the other day. Part of what makes social media bullying so much worse is that there is no fear of immediate consequence for the bully.
A valuable lesson I’m sure most of us learned in our school days is: If you keep stepping over the line, you might get punched in the face
The people who do social media bullying aren’t necessarily the people who would do face-to-face bullying, so there are more bullies to go around.
You usually only get punched in the face by one person, not whole band wagon.
One of those is actually a real, literal punch in the face though. Correct me if I’m wrong but I think that was the point.
This guy is a walking testament to the absurdity of current American “speaker” culture, people pay these idiots to speak at conferences and events and stuff. You couldn’t make a satire of an event speaker that is more ridiculous.
