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I support San Diego State University President Thomas Day in his position that the number of students must be reduced in the face of cost reductions at the University, and we can start with those students that have no business entering such an institution.
I know a young man who was admitted last fall to a state university in the north of the state without mathematics credentials to do so, and with an inability to ever achieve such a credential.
He has failed remedial math in a community college four times, the last two tries with a tutor, and was still admitted to a state university on the virtue of other passed courses, very few of which he had passed with a higher than C grade.
College is not for everyone, and it’s time for state university to toughen entrance requirements.
J.M. MCINTOSH, San Diego
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