<p>a 3.90 on a 4.00 uw gpa scale would put you around 45 in a class of 350. way too many smart kids lol</p>
<p>No, there are other VA schools besides TJ and our kids love to beat TJ once in a while in competitions! The whole school is a bit larger than one TJ class year. I believe previous poster is giving stats for TJ.</p>
<p>heh, my school of 4000 is retarded. 3 USAMO qualifiers in high school history and we've been around since 1921 =/. we do take AMC every year.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>And I thought my school was dumb.</p>
<p>Our school sends about three to Princeton, 30 to Stanford, 2 to Harvard, 2 to Yale, 3 to Brown, 10 to Cornell, 5 to Dartmouth, 5 to NYU, 5 to Duke, 100 to Berkley, 100 to UCLA.</p>
<p>A 3.75 GPA unweighted is the 3rd decile.</p>
<p>Don't sweat about it. High school competitiveness is not really your choice. It mostly means how much your parents could afford for your education regardless of whether it is private or public. You could make do with what opportunities are laid out for you, no matter what your surroundings are. I think the only main strength of "competitive" high schools is their highly talented and motivated student body.</p>
<p>Sigh. Supposedly my school is a "competitive" public school, but that's a lie. Last year one person got into Northwestern and no one else got in anywhere notable, with about 10 kids shooting for ivies. Granted, the year before there was one guy accepted at Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth, and I don't know where else, and the year before that one guy went to Yale. Last year's class sucked (despite having 5 semifinalists and 6 commended... most in one class in my school's history), as only 64% entered college after graduation. </p>
<p>This year only I and this one Asian boy are applying to HYPS and the ivies. One other girl is applying to Duke, a few boys are going for Carnegie Mellon, and another girl is going for UofChicago, but that's about the extent of it.</p>
<p>Well, that's Ohio public education for you.</p>
<p>i don't want to hear anyone complain. when i graduated, my high school had 1 commended student (me) and sent less than 40 people to any college at all out of a class of 80. the vast majority went to cal u of pennsylvania, penn state beaver, edinboro, and 3 went to pitt. i ended up at gw. public schools can be bad.</p>
<p>High Schools are mostly ranked by their API (Academic Performance Index). This is used because it shows not only state and national test scores (AYP), but it also shows scores by race, ethnic background, grade level, and a few other things. Some colleges even ask that when applying to their school that you (or the counselor) send a copy of your high school's API. GPA's don't have much to do with it, because of the fact that some kids take easy classes and have high GPA's, and also because some school's don't offer too many AP classes ... BUT the API & AYP (state & national testing scores) are equal across the country.</p>
<p>My school isn't really competitive nationally (it's approx. 900th public school haha), but we have insane competition within the school, especially because our grading system is insane: 95-100 is an A, and AP classes are only weighted .025 points; honors are not weighted. Not even all 4.0s are in top 10%. Is that like everyone else here, or is my school just psycho?</p>
<p>Well, My school only has 50 students in it per grade.
So the middle in my school, could theoretically be top in the surrounding public school system.</p>
<p>yep, Langley</p>
<p>Magnet:
Seniors this year, out of class of 170:
14 Siemens Semi
4 Siemens Finalists
13 USABO Semi
2 USAMO
45 National Merit Semi</p>
<p>Usually get get about 10-15 into MIT... Our class will be much higher, I think.</p>
<p>Jeez...that's a lot ^^. </p>
<p>We have a class of ~700
33 Natl Merit SF
100+ to University of Michigan
I don't know the number for the other schools, but it's a lot for Ivy Leagues too.</p>
<p>class of 80, 5 national merit semis, send 2-3 to ivies each year.</p>
<p>lol, my school has 30 National Merit Semi-Finalists, and between UCB,UCLA,UCSD, we have over 100 people who go there. last year, we had 35+ seniors attend Berkeley.</p>