According to the report, the number of freshmen at UC San Diego who did not meet middle-school proficiency standards in mathematics increased nearly 30 times between 2020 and 2025, despite students having taken the required high school math classes.
The report goes on to say that in 2024, two out of five students who needed to take remedial math classes also had to take remedial writing classes.
You can pick nits that OP’s specific quote didn’t happen if you want to bother checking. I don’t care.
UC San Diego freshmen not prepared for college-level math, writing classes: Report
Student prompted ChatGPT to write about “homeliness” and not “homelessness.”
Made my kids write an essay…the tears OMG the tears!