<p>anybody in cc is in a ghetto school with less than 5 aps and feel alone sometimes because you're the only one trying and everybody seems to not care. If you feel like that please post</p>
<p>My school is pretty bad. Most people go in-state. And when they take AP, they screw around. They treat people who got 5’s on AP like worshippers. The end? </p>
<p>Is that how you feel?</p>
<p>yeah that’s how i feel sometimes</p>
<p>I just live in the suburbs, and there’s probably 1 or 2 students from each class who go to a school that’s better than the state one. It’s been years since an Ivy League.</p>
<p>I’m the only one of my friends who seems to care-care-care, but I’m trying to tone down on how angsty I get about it. The problem: the counselors. They can’t fathom the possibility of anyone from the school getting into a first or second-tier university. Verbatim: “Honey, 4 APs is too much … I suggest dropping AP Calculus and just Statistics.”</p>
<p>The main problem with my school is that teachers and counselors try to get you to graduate high school instead of attempting to prepare you for college. Even though we have AP classes, compared to most, they’re a joke. We had one person get into Stanford and the school made a huge deal about it. Somebody got into Carleton but nobody at our school actually knew that is was a pretty prestigious LAC.</p>
<p>Many students do nothing post graduation and students who go to university stay in state. Community college is another option, but I know graduating seniors who just got a job. I don’t think anyone has gone to an Ivy League in several years if not more, but we have many Ivy League students in surrounding areas. My school is kind of the “bad” school even though our teachers are generally nice and it’s an open, accepting place.</p>
<p>There are some people who have potential to go to top 20 schools but counselors never make that seem like an option and everyone is encouraged to just go in state. We do have some college bound students, but nobody is encouraged to try to shoot for excellence. It’s lame.</p>
<p>I have a few other students who are at the top of the class but they don’t seem to want to do anything but go to Western or Udub.</p>
<p>@franz/mascara: I kind of know what you’re talking about. I’ve heard that my counselors at my school tell most kids to just ‘aim for the C’. Not an A, but a C. It’s just crazy. We do have quite a few APs, and quite a few pretty smart kids (I think we had a couple get into berkeley last year, and there was one girl, who I’m not sure if she went to my high school or a cross-town one, who got into Harvard). But we also have quite a few really uncaring kids who fail every or almost every class. I mean seriosuly, like a fifth of the freshman failed PE last year! I knew a guy with a gpa of like 0.80, and he was ranked
480th in our class of 580! So the amount of intelligence and caring at my school varies wildly.</p>
<p>The people that graduate from my school go to places like mercy college and Tufts university at most. It’s ridiculous there’s no competition and I feel like I’m the only one that feels this way. The counselors always hold me back saying that I’m killing myself and I should drop a few classes when I only take a couple of aps. I am seriously unhappy at my school. I just hope I graduate soon.</p>
<p>“The main problem with my school is that teachers and counselors try to get you to graduate high school instead of attempting to prepare you for college.”</p>
<p>EXACTLY how my school is. </p>
<p>My school offers only 4 AP’s, and most people don’t even take 1.
Most people only only make it through geometry in math and sometimes chemistry in science. Some people don’t even take geometry and chem, and instead take consumer’s math, forensics, human body, etc.</p>
<p>It’s a damn shame.</p>
<p>As far as colleges go:</p>
<p>We’re one of those schools who are in the category of “less than 50% of its students go to a 4 year college afterwards.” The majority don’t go at all or go to a nearby community college. I think the best school someone goes to every year is usually RPI or northeastern. Occasionally we get a kid into Cornell. I think we had someone go to Harvard like a decade or so ago. </p>
<p>It is what it is?</p>
<p>Btw, I do love my school; I’ve had amazing teachers and experiences, but I just wish we were more focused on academics rather than football. (That’s what we’re ‘known’ for around here.)</p>
<p>I think 30% of my school strives to go to PennState and 50% strive to go to our local community college.</p>
<p>yeah my school is so so ghetto. all we’re about is football. the main goal is to get everyone to graduate, and then go to a community college or a state school. hardly anyone goes anywhere prestigious or out of state. we have a fair amount of APs, and some of my peers are really smart. people in some AP classes shouldn’t be in there though. the good thing about my school is that we have a very wide variety of classes and we’re really good at sports. haha.</p>
<p>Dude same here^</p>
<p>All the band people are all FOOTBALL-crazy. And those people (band) are so smart!! UGH! If they just cared more about AP than FOOTBALL, my school would be 100+ smarter</p>
<p>I go to an average high school where only a few people have gone to prestigious schools and it doesn’t bother me. Then again maybe it’s because I’m below average compared to most people here. Personally I don’t give a f**k.</p>
<p>My middle and elementary schools were “inner city” public schools. I’m lucky enough to have gotten into my current high school which admits students based solely on a test score.</p>
<p>My school isn’t in the ghetto and still has less than 5 APs.</p>
<p>My school is in farm country and has around 5 AP’s… we usually have a couple kids go to Cornell though because it is 10 minutes away. General majority go to an in-state or the local community college though.</p>
<p>My school has over 10 AP classes, but most people who take an AP take AP English Lit and Comp and AP English Lang and Comp. Physics B, Euro History, Calc AB are all rare classes that generally have 30 kids taking them a year, out of over 2000.</p>
<p>A lot of people who take Physics B are the same people to take Euro History and Calculus. We have a small group of students in AP classes other than English. I’d say 45 students, at most.</p>
<p>I’m in a ghetto school. No, make that a school system. We have four elementary schools, one middle school, and three high schools (traditional, STEM, and Early College). Does that make any sense?</p>
<p>Back to my school, we offer no more than 4 APs at a time and they are usually Calc AB, Stats, Eng Lit, and US History. But they all only have 4-10 people in them at most (Calc AB only had 2 last year). AP scores are horrible here because of the teachers. State exam scores vary greatly (Algebra 2, English 1, and Bio were highest ones, while US History, Civics, and Algebra 1 were the lowest). We have amazing teachers, but they have the wrong ones teaching the AP classes.</p>
<p>My school rarely sends people to anyplace nearing prestige. The closest anyone got last year was NC State. A few people over the school’s history have been to Duke or UNC. Alot of people go to the community college 20 minutes away (but it’s one of the best in the state) or a college in the boonies (ex. Chowan, Voorhees).</p>
<p>Your school offers an AP with only 2 kids? I friggin’ wishhhhhhhhhh. I was going to have AP Calc but only 8 kids were signed up and my principal was like no way :(</p>
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<p>I’m fairly sure that biology and chemistry are required subjects for all high school students in the nation (public/private/and other) to graduate, and geometry and algebra 1 and 2 are also required. At least, if not for graduation then for enrolling in college other than community college.</p>
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<p>Nope. In New York you only need Biology and Algebra 1 to graduate.</p>