<p>It got cut off.
25% chance my school beats your school in Class LL semifinals</p>
<p>Haha nope, we’re not even LL. CAPT sucks, it’s annoying, but easy. During CAPT week here juniors and seniors usually get early dismissal, but our APUSH teacher makes us stay after for 2 of the days to review for the AP exam…</p>
<p>@Defree: we call it privlic, but it’s free (long explanation). </p>
<p>I think we sent ~25 kids to Yale in the last 4 years (out of a graduating class of ~175 each year), and ~40 were admitted in that time, with one year having 11 kids admitted. Probably ~50 kids apply each year. There’s definitely a lot of pressure to live up to that, although the average GPA admitted is 96 (which would be pretty low at other schools) and the lowest admitted is 92. There is a pretty wide range of students, though, which is what brings the school average GPA down to about a 92, I think?</p>
<p>And yes, the competition is driving me insane. And no, my GPA is not 96. Whoops…</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.hopkins.edu/ftpimages/82/download/At%20A%20Glance%202011%20FINAL.pdf[/url]”>http://www.hopkins.edu/ftpimages/82/download/At%20A%20Glance%202011%20FINAL.pdf</a></p>
<p>There’s some good stats here ^^</p>
<p>I wanted to go to Hopkins but my parents couldn’t pay for it. I bet it is crazy competitive, but that’s good for some people. I hate when I go to class with kids who couldn’t give two ****s about what we do. At Hopkins I expect there is much less of that. I know a few kids who go to Hopkins, they’re all pretty smart. You guys have an insane tennis team too!</p>
<p>My school sends 20-25 students to Yale in 4 years. I think it’s pretty good for an international school.</p>
<p>Somehow we seem to be better with Princeton though…</p>
<p>Average SAT score of 860 lol.
I hope that makes my 2230 look amazing.</p>
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<p>Ugh… I go to an extremely competitive prep school… While I love it, I kinda wish I got better grades. I’m only a freshman though, so I guess I should be fine for now to bring up my grades - my transcript only has my final year-end grades calculated into my gpa… Working back up to that 4.0 from the 3.67 I have now 
Ah well. I’m probably top 25%
my school sends basically top 40 percent to great schools (BC and above on the usnews scale to be more accurate)</p>
<p>Hopkins does look like a classic “feeder school” for Yale. Digging deeper, I would expect to see a bunch of admits there from local URMs and local politicians or other power brokers that Yale just has to keep happy in the local community. Kind of like Harvard bending backwards to favor Boston and Cambridge admits – the dads are powerful and when it comes to matters like zoning, you can bet that they will remember whether Yale or Harvard admitted their kid. Oh, sorry, just another part of the “holistic” admissions process, a PC phrase meeting that “we’ll take whomever we want, regardless of whether they otherwise deserve to be here or not. And really, you want us to take another textureless Korean violinist?”</p>
<p>@dfree: Hopkins tennis…my school could take them 
Although, tennis is something my school is proud of (surprisingly good for a public school).
My sister went to private school, which made me NOT want to go. But, if I lived closer to New Haven I would definitely think about it. It definitely seems like a place that has students who actually care.</p>
<p>Wow. I just looked at that Hopkins link and I am very impressed. The tuition is right about average as well. My sister’s private school cost more than that! Too bad I live in Hartford County and it’s a day school.</p>
<p>Meh I go to a super competitive public school (we once got 8 Princeton admits in a year). It does benefit students applying to schools that are familiar with our HS (for example, plenty of people from our school make it into Vandy and CMU engineering with sub-3.5 GPAs). However, students who apply to schools that don’t know our HS well are pretty much SCREWED because of our grade deflation.</p>
<p>Spastic, the best public tennis schools all come from Fairfield county, hehe. That said, Hopkins has a kid on their team who will be playing at Stanford next year, and is ranked about 15th in the country. They also have a kid who will be playing at Williams and several other very highly ranked players… They could crush any team in New England.</p>
<p>^I know…I just like to make my school sound better. I’m just happy we’re the best in CCC West and top-10 in state. Schools like Staples and Greenwich are just too good.</p>
<p>Staples and Greenwich are siiiiiick. At least my school dominates class S :p, not that it’s much of an accomplishment.</p>
<p>Is Class S better or worse than Class M?
I thought it went LL -> L -> M -> S.</p>
<p>It goes by school size, so yea, LL -> L -> M -> S. My high school is S but we could beat any M or S team, and we could beat a fair amount of LL or L. We scrimmaged several L and LL schools, we beat Wilton and Ridgefield but lost to New Canaan and got crushed by Staples >.<</p>
<p>Oh, I get it now. I never knew it went by school size. It’s weird that my school is LL since most of the schools we face in our area are a lot bigger (Avon, Simsbury, Farmington, etc.) seeing as they have one public high school and my town has two. </p>
<p>Oh well, everyone loses to Staples and Hirschberg or whatever his name is. They had the Class LL playoffs at my school last year, and he was amazing…didn’t drop a single game throughout the whole tournament I think.</p>
<p>I had the “honor” of playing Danny Hirschberg when we scrimmaged Staples… that went quick. He’s soooo good.</p>
<p>I’m a parent and new to cc but my kids go to Hopkins. It’s a great school and kids do care but don’t be misled by those stats. The kids going to Yale are mostly children of professors with very strong connections to Yale, athletes or URMs.</p>
<p>Interesting. I would’ve loved to go to Hopkins, but my family wouldn’t have been able to afford the tuition. I’m sure there are plenty of smart kids at Hopkins anyways.</p>