Talk:University High School (Irvine)

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I don't think the parenthetical comment about the school's diversity is redundant at all. In fact, the school isn't particularly "diverse" in the definition of the word - a mixture of many different groups. It is overwhelmingly composed of people from just two groups: European American and Asian American. That's two groups that together make up over 90% of the student body. That being said, it's not a big deal so I won't revert. Moncrief July 5, 2005 07:05 (UTC)

The SAT score being the highest in America - well, it's just wrong. Look at one of your close geographic competitors, Troy High School. They have an average SAT of 1258, which is already higher than Uni's, without considering the rest of the world. Edited that sentence out.

[edit] Interesting fact that could be added

University High School was one of three high schools to offer online application to the University of California System (Pathways) in a pilot program in 1995-96. I know this because I was one of the first to do an online application for college. I don't know if anyone wants to put forth the effort to find a source to substantiate my claim, but I think it would add to the article.

-- PK9 02:42, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted vandalism, and not sure what to put back in...

I got rid of "University High School is composed of a diverse student body, consisting of a lot of Asian people, and some other people, but mostly a lot of Asian people." but I didn't replace it with the previous "University High School is composed of a diverse student body, consisting of 49.8% Caucasian, 41.5% Asian, 4.2% Hispanic, 1.8% African-American, 1.5% Filipino, 0.4% Pacific Islander, and 0.2% American Indian." Why? Because that sounds silly...who would call that diverse? But I couldn't come up with a better way to work that info in, so I just put it here. Do what you will with it. Coming from a non-IUSD student/parent perspective, this whole article is a little fawning. I mean, is this a brochure, or what? (Be kind to me, I'm still new at this.) -Randomglitter 08:15, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] As of March 2007

Hello all, and thank you for contributing to this school site. I'm part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Schools/Assessment team, and I'm reviewing this page, I'm currently giving it a grade of B on the Wikipedia 1.0 Assessment Scale but I'm not sure as to the importance of the school to the area. I would like some input from the community to this end. For now, I am giving it an importance rating of "None". Thank you all, once again, for your contributions and anti-vandalism work.

My reasoning for this rating is as follows: This page has a lot of interesting information but the Acheivements section needs more organization and reads like a brochure. This shows a lack of NPOV and as mentioned in one of the comments, there are a few unreasonable claims and lots of biased language. Adam McCormick 20:03, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I reassessed this article and gave it a low-importance, if it can be proven otherwise the importance rating can freely be increased. Articles with no references and that follow no kind of consistent format simply cannot be given a B-rating; once this key section is fulfilled at least in part the rating can be returned to B. We need to use some kind of strategy in rating these articles...drop any comments on my talk page. PhoenixTwo 22:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)