Superintendent’s Reply Missed the Point
* Re “Superintendent Counters a Critic” (Dec. 31):
Supt. Susan Roper’s reason that the Huntington Beach Union High School District did not send transcripts to the state of the top 4% in each class was that 53% of the seniors in the district were eligible to attend the University of California system without using the program.
There is a quantum leap between being eligible and being admitted.
Many students are eligible but few are admitted--a ratio of about 10 to 1.
So her statement, “Our graduates are not affected by the 4% admission guarantee since a much higher percentage of our students are already eligible for admission to the UC system” is fallacious.
Sally Alvino’s letter, “Huntington Union Fails UC Prep Test” (Dec. 17) is correct!
ROBERT SPENCER
Westminster
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