Lowell High School in San Francisco has reverted from a lottery admission system back to merit-based admissions after significant pushback from parents and lawsuits. Nevertheless, the first class admitted under the lottery system, graduating this year, showed academic results that closely matched those of previous classes. Their average GPA was 3.45, just slightly lower than the 3.69 from prior years, and they took an average of 2.65 Advanced Placement courses. Notably, salutatorian Benjamin Zhang emphasized their identity beyond the lottery label in his graduation speech.
Let this be our final act: To say that we are not defined by a lottery, a label or a transcript. We are defined by what we did with the chance we were given.
Despite concerns about their admission method, the first graduating class under the lottery system at Lowell High School performed quite similarly to their merit-based predecessors.
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