<p>Hey guys i saw an interesting thread about the factor of how competitive your hs is in applications. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_College_High_School%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_College_High_School</a>
That's the high school I go to now
"The Wall Street Journal recently identified Hunter College High School as the top public school feeder to leading colleges."
"Admission is granted at the seventh grade level only. Each year, approximately 2,500 sixth grade students from the five boroughs of New York City who meet Hunter's standards in reading and mathematics on fifth grade standardized exams (typically minimum scores being 90-95 percentile on both tests) are eligible to take the Hunter College High School Entrance Exam. Approximately 180 students enter on the basis of the exam."
I asked a guy about this and he started ******* at me, at how I was getting a free ride in to safety schools like JHU. Then i had to ***** at him because he thinks JHU is a safety school lol. I hate how people think JHU is not ivy-league tier.
I'm still a junior but I absolutely love JHU and cannot wait to go there (doing college visit soon).
Anyway if that is the case (my high school), will it really play any role in admission?</p>
<p>The strength of your high school, based on arbitrary evaluations by the media (whether it be the WSJ, Newsweek, US News, etc.) will not matter at all in the Hopkins Admissions practive.</p>
<p>The adcoms don't look at these ratings, and honestly don't care. They are as useless as the USNWR ratings of colleges. (Actually, probably more useless.)</p>
<p>NOOOOOOOOOOO
lol</p>
<p>isn't sty an even better school at n.y.?
i've heard of hunter and people transferring out after 8th grade to go to sty.</p>
<p>plus like a bajillion people go to HYPSM every year from that school</p>
<p>stuy better in what sense?
theres a huge rivalry yea lol. academically or schoolwise?
our school is private in the sense that we arent funded by the board of education or dept of ed. my school relies a lot on parent donations, mayor bloomberg, and hunter college. stuy is considered the best public high school but our rankings according to media fall under private schools
academically,athletically, we are a lot stronger even though we have 1/3 of their total student body. our students usually finish top in most scholastic and athletic competitions in nyc. (INTEL WINNER 2005 FROM OUR SCHOOL) lol
but thats just the p.o.v of a hunter student :/</p>
<p>WHAT?!?! US NEWS RANKING DOESN"T COUNT?!?!?!?!? :'(</p>
<p>I go to Troy High (#21 in US public schools) - so does that mean nothing? B/c our schools IS alot tougher than neighboring schools and it would jus seem appropriate if such things were taken into account....</p>
<p>The 2nd place team winner from Siemens this year are my friends from our school ^_^. (One got into Harvard, other got into Yale). hahaha.....</p>
<p>Those rankings mean absolutly nothing. It only goes by how many AP or IB tests are taken by the graduating class. My school doesn't "push" their students to take inordinate amounts of AP tests, and therefore are ranked quite low (in the 200's, under many local schools we are far superior to). If the ranking went on how well the students do on those AP tests (a ranking which also would be inherently flawed), my school would be much higher.</p>
<p>Those Newsweek rankings were total b.s., IMO. All they did was calculate the amount of AP tests taken per student--which should not be an indicator of how "good" a school is.</p>
<p>Just to back-up what "laxfan04" wrote, the Admissions counselors do not concern themselves with these ratings. They are arbitrary and in fact just help these publications sell more newspapers are magazines to the college crazed students and families out there. </p>
<p>I will add though that when evaluating applicants, we do pay particular attention to a high school's profile. That it enables us to review the applicant in the context of their school, community, and environment. It helps with expectations and to determine how much a student had to work with.</p>
<p>In the end, there is no added benefit is you attened a top school that can offer extensive AP/IB courses, or no disadvantage if you attend a small school that does not offer the same. We review applicants in context of their school. </p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<p>...for the record, you're using Wikipedia as your source...the encyclopedia that ANYONE can edit; I actually wrote the article on proctology with no real knowledge</p>
<p>anyway, to strengthen your question/arguement, use a more valid source...</p>