<p>vhevk out andover 2005 placements
<a href="http://www.andover.edu/news/commencement05.htm%5B/url%5D">www.andover.edu/news/commencement05.htm</a></p>
<p>it has penn heading for top.</p>
<p>also a top prep school in Ca, Stevenson 2004 placement will show top kids heading for penn over col.</p>
<p>On the basis of one student. Thanks, baba.</p>
<p>baba, what is the purpose of your post? What has 17 people going to Penn from Andover has to do with anything. You don't have enough information to make any inference. Don't assume that all the students at Andover are smart.</p>
<p>"What counts isn't necessarily what's countable"..........Einstein.</p>
<p>I think that's the mystery of ivy league admissions.</p>
<p>baba, tega is correct. Haha that means nothing.</p>
<p>i usually find all these rankings to be very very stupid and would like to share a quote which i read in a magazine
"statistics are like a bikini, what they reveal is interesting, but what they hide is vital"</p>
<p>you will find this trend all top schools, like Winsor, deerfied, Menlo, Pingry, Kent Place and others. Just check it out.</p>
<p>Your opinions are not credible unless you back it up with a source.</p>
<p>According to Newsweek, the top ten high school in the US are
1 Jefferson County
2 International Academy
3 Stanton College Prep
4 Eastside
5 H-B Woodlawn
6 Science/Engineering Magnet
7 Paxon
8 Pensacola
9 Raleigh Charter
10 Hillsborough
source: <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7723397/site/newsweek/%5B/url%5D">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7723397/site/newsweek/</a></p>
<p>Your lame opinion on who is the "top kids" is already fallible.</p>
<p>Newsweek is more trustworthy than you.</p>
<p>u hilliblli from oaklawn Cemetary, these are public schools based on AP classes. This does not even rank the right schools in each state.
Almost most private prepchools are head and body lenghth higher than these good( but not the best schools).</p>
<p>Use glass to read the fine prints.</p>
<p>even though newsweek's rankings are also not the most accurate, i agree that by examining the destinations of students from some well known schools says nothing about the universities- just because more andover students are going to upenn doesnt make it better than hypsm</p>
<p>lol o man, best high schools = most kids who take APs?</p>
<p>"u hilliblli from oaklawn Cemetary,"
Hah. Oakland is hardly hicksville, USA </p>
<p>"these are public schools based on AP classes. This does not even rank the right schools in each state."</p>
<p>At least they had a sane methodology to ranking them. Your opinion are based out of your a.s.s. </p>
<p>Saying "Almost most private prepchools are head and body lenghth higher than these good( but not the best schools)" does not make it true. It's just like saying "Baba is the the biggest f.u.c.k.tard person in the world." It's not true. It's an understatement.</p>
<p>"Saying "Almost most private prepchools are head and body lenghth higher than these good( but not the best schools)" does not make it true. You can also say "I'm the biggest f.u.c.k.tard person in the world" but then you wouldn't be selling yourself short."</p>
<p>This is true. I went to a private prep school and we average over 6 APs person. This is higher than the #1 on the list, using, as you said, the "sane methodology".</p>
<p>But this debate is moot.</p>
<p>This is why they used the AP methodology:
"Newsweek's Best High Schools List uses a ratio, the number of Advanced Placement (AP) and/or International Baccalaureate (IB) tests taken by all students at a school in 2004, divided by the number of graduating seniors. Although that doesn't tell the whole story about a school, it's one of the best measures available to compare a wide range of students' readiness for higher-level work, which is more crucial than ever in the postindustrial age."</p>
<p>Oh well there's a method to the madness.</p>
<p>Baba, maybe you want to take a look at this website. It gives the total number of students from Andover to certain universities from 2000-2004. </p>
<p>I don't think that more students going to Penn from prep schools makes any difference. All the smart students are hardly at the prep schools.</p>
<p>"The Complete List of the 1,000 Top U.S. Schools
Public schools are ranked according to a ratio devised by Jay Mathews: the number of Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate tests taken by all students at a school in 2004 divided by the number of graduating seniors." Newsweek</p>
<p>First of all: public
Second of all: based on NUMBER of AP tests?! (many public and private schools REQUIRE taking the tests, and most good schools don't even OFFER all the stupidest AP topics, and many private schools don't even use the AP period.)
Thirdly: the AP GRADES are not even factored in, which is really really dumb. </p>
<p>Newsweek failed majorly.</p>
<p>Since when is it called Kent Place? It's just Kent.</p>
<p>Also, you won't find this trend at all the top schools. You will find this trend at some of the top schools and some of the not quite top schools. You will find the opposite trend at many top schools. You will find no trend whatsoever at most schools. Stop worrying about this.</p>
<p>yes the ap rankings are a bit silly, some of the best schools ranked in the low 90's or 100's performance on the test is much better than the number of aps taken</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kentplace.org%5B/url%5D">www.kentplace.org</a></p>
<p>check the news for 2005 placements( 21% Ivy with 5 heading for penn)</p>
<p>check out <a href="http://www.kentplace.org%5B/url%5D">www.kentplace.org</a>
click on news for 2005 placements( 21% IVY with 5 heading for Penn)
checkout <a href="http://www.pingry.org%5B/url%5D">www.pingry.org</a>
click on the record then june 2005 publication of The Record
31% ivy placements in 2005 with Penn 11, Pton 5, Harvard 5 Dmouth 3, Col 2
Yale 4, and Cornell 5</p>