"Competitive" and "Top 50" High Schools? What List?

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<p>I keep seeing people refer to their high school as either very competitive or a top 10 private high school in the nation. I've never seen a list for the top/most competitive private high schools, what list has everyone been referring to?</p>

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<p>top 10 privates: Andover, Exeter, St Pauls, Deerfield, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Choate, Middlesex,Milton, Groton</p>

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<p>do you have a online source for that which ranks more schools and shows how they did it</p>

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<p>The best private schools:
<a href="http://www.prepreview.com/english/us/rank/us_highschool.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.prepreview.com/english/us/rank/us_highschool.htm&lt;/a>
But you have to pay in order to see it.</p>

<p>And the best public ones:
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12532678/site/newsweek/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12532678/site/newsweek/&lt;/a>
That list is free.</p>

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<p>that list doesn't include magnet schools. my school is a public magnet school and out of a 420ish class size we sent 40-50ish kids to ivys and about 200 got in to UVA.</p>

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<p>748 Midwood Brooklyn N.Y. 1.448 40.5 47.4 </p>

<p>Not bad, not bad.</p>

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<p>andover and exeter rules</p>

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<p>Personally, I think the Newsweek list is pretty worthless. But, then, so is any ranking of high schools at this point. Too few data. Too many variables.</p>

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<p>The high school rankings are based on the percentage of kids in a school who take AP or IB exams in a given year. It doesn't matter how they do on the exams, how many kids take advanced classes or how many students are accepted to top schools. These rankings are based strictly on one criteria so don't give them much credence. Colleges are not going to care about these rankings.</p>

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<p>these are wortless... small, high quality schools in the northeast arent even remotely on here...</p>

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<p>Lots of kids call their schools 'competitive' so they feel better about their not-so-high rank.
Newsweek rankings are really bad... I remember looking at their formula and thinking 'wow'.
Let's be honest...the only real (and fair) measure in comparing schools is average SAT scores.</p>

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<p>Last year (or so) the Wall Street Journal did a review of "the best" high schools based on college admissions officers' opinions I believe.</p>