The startling report issued by UC San Diego’s Senate-Administration Working Group on Admissions on Nov. 6 about the surge in unprepared freshmen at the prestigious university made national headlines — and for ample good reason.
The report documented how from 2020 to 2025, the number of incoming UCSD students who hadn’t mastered high school level math increased nearly 30-fold, comprising about 1 in 8 freshmen — with 1 in 12 not even competent at middle school math. This was the case even though the students admitted in 2024 who were found to be most in need of remedial support had average
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