Mission High boasts top Berkeley admit rate despite math failures

SF high school where 94% flunk math has California’s highest Berkeley acceptance rate - Titus Wu

A San Francisco high school where students get top grades simply for showing up now has the highest acceptance rate in the state to the prestigious University of California, Berkeley — as critics blame

• rampant grade inflation and 
• rock-bottom standards 

for a surge in ill-prepared college students who end up dropping out.

Mission High School had a 45% acceptance rate into the elite university, with 34 out of its 76 applicants gaining admission last fall, far ahead of the state average of 15%, according to data compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle.
But it’s not because of superior academics, critics say, but rather because of 

• low standards 
• and a lefty policy that eliminated SAT testing requirements in the University of California system, 

sending a flood of students who can barely do fractions into demanding courses like Calculus...