At UC San Diego, one out of every eight incoming freshman do not meet middle school math standards

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This is kind of where I’m at. It will be interesting to see how things shake out in education in terms of AI use.

Fundamentally, colleges need customers. And if colleges continue to address AI in a punitive manner as in the Berkeley CS10 class, over time I expect a smaller subset of students willing to take that class, or attend a school with such policies.

Same issue for UCSD if they increase math requirements for admission. I’m not saying I don’t support that, but obviously that will leave UCSD a smaller applicant pool to choose from.

Again, time will tell how things shake out but AI is far from the only factor causing people to reevaluate whether or not they need to attend college.

There is already a surplus of college seats across the US (and it’s not just regional…every large city has a surplus of college seats.) I fear that surplus is only going to grow.

Time for college leaders to really think about what the future of college education looks like in light of AI, and the students that are their target market. And then start implementing the changes that are necessary to stay relevant.

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The unfortunate part is that the cheaters often take the opportunities that the non-cheaters deserve before being found out. It does no one good for them to be able to fake their way into say grad school before flunking out. The program is now down a student and a student who would have succeeded may have been denied admission. For employers students who didn’t cheat may be overlooked and it it takes a lot of resources to hire a new employee only to have to let them go during the probation period and go through the recruitment process all over again.

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You make a fair point about grade inflation. It’s getting really hard to distinguish top applicants when everyone seems to have a perfect GPA on paper nowadays.

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