UC San Diego Released a Report Revealing a Startling Percentage of Its Students Can't Do 3rd Grade Math

Going to UC San Diego must be incredible. You're finally an adult, attending college in one of the most beautiful cities in the world and your university doesn't even care if you're able to do elementary school math. What a dream.

UCSD released a report this week detailing several problems with its incoming freshman classes, but most striking were the number surrounding a course simply called "Math 2." The class has been offered for the last several years, but the number of freshmen taking it has grown from just 0.5 percent in 2020 to more than 8 percent in 2025. And not only are students taking this class, they're failing it spectacularly.

Any student enrolled in a state university who can not give the correct answer to 7 + 2 = x - 6 has to be dismissed immediately. On the spot. Best of luck in your future endeavors, but this is not for you.

For those wondering how something like this could possibly occur at what is allegedly the sixth-best public university in America, the University of California system does not even allow students to submit standardized test scores as part of their admissions portfolio even if they wanted to. If you get a 36 on the ACT and would like UCLA or Cal to know that, tough shit.

Perhaps the most troubling data point in this entire set is that there were five students enrolled in Math 2 last fall who were majoring in math. How is that even allowed? There should be a TA standing at the door of that classroom checking just to make sure every kid in there is majoring in literally anything else.

The news that nearly 10 percent of UCSD freshmen struggle with third grade math comes on the heels of Harvard's confession it has been handing out A's like free samples at Costco, which caused an emotional breakdown from the student body.

Suffice it to say everything in academia is going swimmingly.