But at CUNY, the number of unprepared students is especially large.

The California State University system is similarly trying to reduce the number of unprepared students, now some 60 percent.

And that unprepared student in your seminar?

The presence of large numbers of unprepared students has changed how professors teach.

For years, it was criticized for letting academically unprepared students get athletic scholarships.

For years, the university has been complaining that the city's high schools were graduating large numbers of unprepared students.

The idea was to reduce the number of unprepared students, who tend to drop out of college and default on their loans.

As long as academically unprepared students are accepted at colleges, college will be a business - a big business!

And in both cases, the political reasoning falls along similar lines: proponents of change argued that unprepared students were being admitted to college.

What should come as a surprise is that many of those unprepared students are admitted to colleges and universities.