<p>Let's hear it for extremely limited APs, no competition, easy A's, and a less-than-stellar choice of ECs and clubs!</p>
<p>There has to be someone else on CC that lives more than 30 miles from the coast and can't say "competitive high school" on their chances thread.</p>
<p>No joke. Our school offers two AP classes. TWO.</p>
<p>My school offers 2 ap classes, but I go to an excellent school. AP tests don't mean that a school is automatically "good."
It's just small- you can't offer 29302482 ap classes when the senior class only has 40 students.</p>
<p>BTW, I'm a city kid.</p>
<p>My school offers four, BUT two of them are offered alternate years, AND they are scheduled so that you can only take two, PLUS each AP takes up TWO class periods.</p>
<p>I believe I go to a fairly rural high school...I'm at least 40 mins from any significant city in NY. ~150 students to a grade, and we don't put salt on the roads in winter because it can hurt crops...</p>
<p>We're still fairly competitive, though. 7 APs, and we're pretty high-achieving in terms of standardized tests and such.</p>
<p>I do! My school has 4, but it's practically impossible to take all 4.. Some people get 3 if they're lucky. Most people who want them get 2 (Calc and AP Lit)
My grade has a whopping 87 kids.. There are no clubs other than FFA and FCA, we had Drama but we may or may not have a director this time. So the only EC are sports and I am the least athletic person I know haha..
There really is no competition. I'm safely ranked third and I highly doubt I could EVER catch 1 and 2, so I don't have anyone to push me..</p>
<p>Not to mention I live almost 10 miles from town and that's 45 miles from any well known places! The middle of no where aka Indiana...</p>
<p>My school offers no APs, but it's generally considered a good school in my area. My school attracts students from 20 miles away. However, a good rural school is never as good as a good suburban or urban school. My school doesn't have enough resources even for a regular, run of the mill Calculus class, so they will stop offering it next year after just 3 years of it.</p>
<p>One of the major drawbacks is the lack of nearby universities. I would like to do a research project, but the nearest research university is a 45 minute drive. And it's generally not considered a good university, even in the area.</p>
<p>The class of 2007 had 41 students, but mine has around 58.</p>
<p>I live in Vermont, but my school has 15 or so APs and lots of honors classes. 1000 students. It's still rural (okay, suburban), though.</p>
<p>I go to a crappy school with no funding. That means in the midwest winter, its freezing cold. As for classes? Joke "IB" classes that spoonfeed you. Theres a reason why so litle students do well on IB tests. The counselors lie to students in order to keep them there at the highschool. Its a peice of crap school. </p>
<p>EC's? The Do-Not-Smoke one is the most popular. I wanted to start up a JSA...too bad kids don't even know what politics are. There is nothing here.</p>
<p>Bitter? yeah.</p>
<p>my school only has 800 student but we are highly competitive. we offer 23 APs.</p>
<p>Kaznack, where in Vermont do you live? </p>
<p>I go to Spaulding in Barre, Vermont.. do you happen to live in Essex?</p>
<p>wow this is a sharp contrast to my highly competitive school in NJ</p>
<p>we offer 25 AP courses (most good students take about 14 by graduation) and have 2200 students in all grades...wow</p>
<p>princeton university is like 4 miles away</p>
<p>So do you rural people all do 4H? :)</p>
<p>^^ i don't have 4H at my school</p>
<p>i have an ok selection of stuff, and if we want to start a new club, we usually can, but my school is nothing compared to those big competitive guys. 40 students per grade. but i kinda like the small community... most of the time.</p>
<p>can't wait for college though, when i get to be part of something bigger than me. i'm getting sick of rural stuff...</p>
<p>lol at 4H, I'm not in it. Nor do I live on a farm, nor am I a member of the FFA. There are many students that do 4H, but I don't. Usually if anyone does 4H, it's when they're in elementary school. Most of them quit by the time they get into high school, though there are of course a few left. </p>
<p>My school has good enough students to offer APs, but no one seems to want them. Most of the good students score in the 28-32 range on the ACT, and 50% of the students have a 3.3 GPA or higher. So the student body could certainly use a few APs, but with only 2 teachers per area (2 for English, 2 for Math, 2 for Science, etc.) that have to teach 6 grades (7-12), no one has any time to add advanced classes. That's why they're getting rid of the Calculus class.</p>
<p>Yep, rural here. No APs offered, basically no clubs or ECs besides sports and FFA. I am one of a few people in my grade that gets to go to a special school which offers lots of accelerated/AP classes, where many of the top students in the area attend. Theres like no competition, and occasionally someone will go to UofM, and we are instate =. I would guess that the average ACT is like 23-25ish maybe. I am one of 3 people that got a 30 or above. The entire highschool has like 420 kids, and the senior class has 99 at the moment, but that is sure to go down before graduation.</p>
<p>I go to a pretty rural school. It has 1200 hundred kids but is an hour from any city and only 20 minutes from the gates to Yosemite National Park. Most people I know, myself included, have a 25-30 mile drive to school each morning.</p>
<p>Our school is pretty underachieving in general, though we are a three time "distinguished" school or whatever that dumb award is. We have an IB program and 5-6 other AP courses. Most kids either go to community college, CSU, or UC school after graduation. Average of 3-4 kids in Berkeley or UCLA every year and once in a while a kid goes to Harvard or MIT.</p>
<p>Sports are by far the biggest event on campus.</p>
<p>We don't even have 4H really.. We have FFA though like I said..
Our kids are really into partying not academics though..</p>
<p>Last year ONE person got over 200 (204) on the PSAT.. I have no idea about SATs though.. I got a 170 and that was the 2nd highest for sophomores.. So definitely not a NMSQ school haha</p>
<p>Rural vermont. 2600 people in the town. There's about 40 kids in my class, though some of the elementary grades have less then 20. The school has 412 kids grades K-12</p>
<p>oh and yes I do do 4H, but it's not just agriculture anymore ( the program I do is agriculture) though there's like science and computer programs and 4H also exists in cities too</p>