In a 4 to 3 vote on June 21, 2022, Lowell High School (in San Francisco) decided to scrap its experiment with lottery-based admissions and return to merit-based admissions.
Who this applies to:
If you're in 8th grade in the fall of 2022, and you want to apply to Lowell High School, and you intend to start in the fall of 2023, you will apply merit-based.
What admissions will exactly look like:
I have not found official confirmation from SFUSD of what the admissions process will entail, but it will likely be similar to the previous system (SBAC test, GPA, extra activities, Lowell essay, and a few other factors). See the Lowell HS application timeline post that I wrote for more information.
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