@herandrews I know many Chinese kids from rich families are super far-left. Their unique advantage is that they receive their commie education from both China and the west.
Maybe we don't have a public school funding problem ...
Maybe we have too many administrative staff?
Clearly adding more admin staff hasn't improved the numbers, so maybe go back to the 1960s ratio.
Berkeley math professor:
“Today, the more successful a public high school is at preparing its students, the lower its graduates' chances of getting into top UC campuses like Berkeley and San Diego.”
Berkeley admitted 45% of applicants from a high school where nearly 94% of “students failed to meet the state standards in mathematics.”
It admitted less than 14% of applicants from a school where “nearly 100 percent of its students in AP Calculus BC pass the national exam with a perfect score of 5.”
Indeed, but cultural and intellectual publications (especially those with "New York" in their title) are consistently unintelligent when writing about intelligence. (Obvious political reason: If we aren't blank slates, then not all inequality can be blamed on injustice, threatening a certain kind of leftist thought. Therefore anything questioning the blank slate - even the in-your-face reality that some people are smarter than others - must be discredited.)
Mohsen Mahdawi is 34 years old.
He first enrolled at Birzeit University in the West Bank in 2008 and studied there for six years. In 2018 he enrolled as an undergraduate at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He stayed there until 2021, and never earned a credential despite enrolling as a seventh year senior and being a full time student there for four years. Despite this extremely suspicious academic record, he was admitted as a transfer to Columbia University — a school which rejects over 97% of applicants — where he attended as an undergraduate for another four years.
Columbia’s rules explicitly state that students must be progressing toward an on-time graduation, but they accepted Mahdawi as an eleventh year undergraduate and allowed him to remain a student in good standing even though he was evidently not maintaining a full course load. His student status was a pretext; he was acting as a full-time anti-American, anti-Jewish and pro-terrorism activist. Since he claims to be a Palestinian refugee, it is unclear who was paying his tuition or providing for his rent and expenses in New York City while he was engaged in subverting American institutions.
He finally earned a bachelor’s degree in May 2025 from one of the top five American universities after 17 years as an undergraduate and was accepted to a master’s program at Columbia even though the State Department was already trying to deport him on national security grounds.
Democrats at every level fought hard to keep him in the country.