The average high school acceptance rate for UC Berkeley in the state of California is 15 percent. But Mission High School in San Francisco enjoys a UC Berkeley acceptance rate of 45 percent. Of the 76 Mission High students who applied to Berkeley in 2025, 34 were accepted.
At this point, you might say, What’s wrong with that? Maybe Mission graduates the most qualified seniors. Well…
“Only 17% of Mission High’s 11th graders scored proficient or above in English, along with a shocking 6% in math on the 2025 state assessment exam,” reports the New York Post, adding that this is the “lowest of any school in the San Francisco Unified School District — which averaged 59% and 43%, respectively.”…