<p>That doesn't mean there weren't any quality students from my school. A guy four years ago went to Princeton.</p>
<p>No, but I do know that most of the schools around me are incredibly poor-and they rarely send people to four-year colleges. Even the ones that are more well-endowed in terms of funds and academic quality still send around 1/8 of their students to four-year colleges and 1/8 to two-year colleges.</p>
<p>My school is very poor. Not enough money to turn on the heat for a majority of the classes, and the student body is small, unmotivated and not too intelligent.</p>
<p>We do have a few very smart people however. One of my friends went to Cornell, and another might be going to an Ivy League school next year.</p>
<p>So poor and unmotivated that the administration stopped caring years ago.</p>
<p>Yah mine is pretty poor (we spend a lot less per student than the average public school) but there's an upper echelon of students so our math and science teams always get to states and perform well (usually top 10.) The only downer is the bulk of the students under-perform, but if you want to go to a top college there are a dozen people you have to compete with. For as far back as I can remember we only sent one person to an Ivy (Dartmouth's engineering program), but it was probably because he go a 1600 on the SAT.v</p>
<p>People mistake my high school for a barn. About half of the building is the basketball court, and the other half is made up of small classrooms (we have I think... 4 of those). I have a class in an old storage room among dusty old jerseys and other sundry athletic gear. I don't think my high school has ever sent someone to an upper tier school, much less the ivy league.</p>
<p>I like my high school. I'm not often there, but it's a really nice place with nice people, and I'm sure I'd like it better than any prep school.</p>
<p>All the ghetto people (hispanics and blacks mostly) are moving into my town. I hate them even though I am hispanic myself.</p>
<p>Uh, what a lovely comment.</p>
<p>My high school is actually in one of the richest counties in the country but it is in like the poorer part of the county... if you catch my drift. Anyway, there is a heavy black and hispanic population at my school. Like there are more black and hispanic students then white students. Don't get me wrong, I'm not tryin' to be racist but I feel kind of akward sometimes because everyone else at my school is tryin' to be all ghetto-cool yo and crap like that and it ****es me off. O yea there are also a lot of drugs and violence at my school. Like I'd say at least 75% of the people at my school have smoked marijuana more than once in their high school career. Also, there are is like 3 fights every day and the other day in row of town houses across from my school some little 6 year old got shot but thank god he was alright. The only good thing about my school is that we just won the State Championship for Basketball yesterday! w00t, go Long Reach Lightning!</p>
<p>My school is pretty poor. Our teachers are the second-lowest paid in Tennessee so we have very few 'shining star' teachers (luckily we do have excellent ones in AP Lit and AP Calc).</p>
<p>About half of our kids go to college, among them 50% to a two-year school and almost the other half to a local four-year. Maybe 2% go to a private school.</p>
<p>We have two people this year applying out of state (me and the valedictorian). I think it's a record!</p>