<p>@Waverly- The private school has about 1200+ applicants per year, usually from in-state. About 200 people make it in; During last semester, I mainly made all B’s, with an A+ in English and a D in Applied Laboratory. All the classes were honors/college prep classes.
Also, at that private high school they didn’t rank (due to a slight “uprising” a few years ago), and they only give your GPA out during your senior year.</p>
<p>My high school’s reputation is… well, I’m not quite sure what it is. Our typical valedictorians end up going to state schools on full scholarships, public West Coast schools, or minor Ivies.
My town is right next to one of THE most competitive cities in America regarding Ivy League admittance. In applying to major colleges, we’re usually merged with that competitive high school. My public high school’s class size is a bit larger than the “competitive city”'s, but their valedictorians usually end up going to HYPMS. The city next to us is…famed…shall we say, for the overachieving asians. My own town’s high school is large, but only the humongous class sizes (1300+) make being in the top 1% admirable. Our school promotes fine arts and athletics much more than academics…and the competitive city in our region promotes academics much more than EC’s—the kids in the top 10% of the other school in our region go to prep classes at least twice a week to boost their academics even more. In our town, it’s just not possible. However, the region is still the same. Does that make sense?</p>
<p>@fullofwonder: Thank you for that insight! c: Would you mind chancing me as well?</p>
<p>@missiris: Thank you for the bump and advice! I’ll be talking to my college counselor on monday regarding this. I suppose it’s all in how I present myself. And I feel the pain of 5A schools… There are about 5000-6000 people in my school, and one of the reasons I decided to apply to that private school was so I could escape the masses, if you know what I mean. But I realize now that if I can stick out among the 1365+ people in my class, I can probably stand a chance in sticking out during college admissions. That’s one of the benefits of attending such a large school, I guess. If you survive it, you’re stronger. We always have double ranks, though, and that peeves me a bit since they skip numbers. (2 #1’s, 2 #3’s, so I’m left with rank 5 instead of rank 3…)
I’ll have to stick all of this info on college applications though.</p>