OPINION: What San Francisco needs to do is in many ways simple: Increase access to quality education and top colleges and universities by investing in many strong academic public high schools. Then nobody will care about the admissions process at Lowell.
Students wear face masks at George Washington High School on Oct. 27, 2021. The school is ranked fourth in SFUSD, according to U.S. News, with 65% participation in AP classes. Total non-white enrollment in 90% and 49% are economically disadvantaged. A few weeks ago, Eileen Gu, a 2021 graduate of University High School, was briefly the most famous, and controversial, athlete in the world.
Why not marry some elements of the lottery with some elements of the previous admissions system? The previous admissions system drew primarily on 7th grade grades and standardized test scores with some consideration going to other activities and underrepresented communities. Rather than admit only the students with the highest test scores and grades, why not set a new threshold — for example, a 3.
I know this firsthand because more than one San Franciscan has called me a “rich kid” when they learned I went to University. Gu, rightly or wrongly, is also seen as a child of the elite and of privilege, because she also attended University, which now charges $55,000 per year, a little more than the. Meanwhile, graduates from Lowell are seen as hard-working strivers, benefiting from a rigorous but free academic high school.
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