It's not the university's problem to get that child ready for college. It's not mom and dad either. Nobody can open Johnie's brain and pour in the information. Like all colleges and high schools you have the idiot classes. The classes a stupid moron can pass. Then you make the grading system so easy anyone can get an A. You don't challenge a student and they come out thinking they are Harvard material. Now you have either the kid was lazy OR the school allowed them to be lazy. Why couldn't Johnny take the imitative and study for college? Or is that another entitlement that the taxpayer should pay for. Spend money to motivate Johnny to take the initiative to prepare for college. Even if he doesn't want to go. Making classes harder would help. Making the grading system harder would help. Getting the parents off the teachers back for failing their kids would help. My sister failed 3rd grade. She now has a degree in electrical engineering, bioengineering, mathematics and teaching.