https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/caltech_joins_lesser_colleges_in_lowering_admissions_requirements.html
The dismantling of academic standards continues apace.
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the elite science and engineering university, is altering its admissions requirements in an effort to make access to the ultra-competitive institution more “equitable.”
Therefore, it is no longer requiring applicants to have already taken calculus, physics and chemistry in high school.
According to the Los Angeles Times, prior to this decision, Ashley Pallie– Caltech’s executive director of undergraduate admissions– began to question whether the requirements were unfair to students from less advantaged backgrounds. Ergo, Caltech dropped its calculus, chemistry, and physics requirements, as long as applicants could supposedly prove their academic chops otherwise, such as through taking an online course.
Call me a skeptic, but this seems “problematic,” as the wokesters are wont to say, especially for an engineering school.
So the dismantling of standards continues apace. Liberal arts schools eschew previously popular classical courses like Western Civilization and Western Literature. Debate and rhetoric are now all but extinct, having given way to more progressive disciplines like women’s studies and gender race theory.