<p>Does anyone go to one? How do you deal, or how is it going?</p>
<p>I wish I could go to one for high school.</p>
<p>I'm not in high school yet, though, so hopefully I'll be able to! :) (Andover, SPS, Deerfield, etc.)</p>
<p>My crappy Canadian high school dosen't offer ANY AP courses, you have to go to summer school to take those or go to a gifted school. So to me, ya'll are very lucky.</p>
<p>I just graduated from one, average SAT about 1400 (old). It was great. Having such smart peers made hs always interesting.</p>
<p>It used to be.. I changed it. My last initial was too specific.</p>
<p>I s'pose my school is.</p>
<p>We were 9th in the nation on Newsweek's list two years ago (dropped to 53 last year, oh the joys of having about 30 more people in a graduating class)</p>
<p>my school is competitive. it kinda sucks because everyone around me makes me feel stupid. but you can always find someone who can help you with homework and whatnot. tons of great people to be around.</p>
<p>We're top 3 or so public schools in PA, one of the best in the N.E. Around a 1200 average SAT. Good amount of APs, but not a ton which hurts us on the rankings. Last year we sent 28/400 or so to Ivies. Tons to other top schools like Berkeley, WUSTL, Emory, UMich, UVA, JHU, UChi, etc.</p>
<p>I go to a highly ranked school (top 10 Newsweek). Some people are super-competitive but most don't seem to be. Maybe I just don't notice it.</p>
<p>Though smart people are treated really well here--some really smart kid with no social skills whatsoever won homecoming last year.</p>
<p>Yeah, at most schools that are "highly competitive" you still have the "smart kids" but even the ones who are just "average" would go to another school and be the "smart kids"</p>
<p>If that made any sense at all.</p>
<p>But I like schools that embrace knowledge. And where the teachers/faculty can have normal conversations with students like it's nothing.</p>
<p>My Canadian school was founded in 1903. I'm not sure if that's impressive or not but its roof is leaking. Also, it's somewhat segregated between the IB and non-IB people. I suppose it's pretty competitive.</p>
<p>My school is really competitive for a public school. I used to hate how everyone else can be so intimidating, but, looking back now as a senior, I might not have worked to my full potential if I'd gone to a less competitive school. And I wouldn't have been able to learn from my peers the way I have. Actually, I would call it more rigorous and challenging than competitive, because everyone is always ready to help each other out rather than screw them over for a higher grade. If we had class rank then people would be tearing each other's eyeballs out.</p>
<p>My school is Stuyvesant. It's very, very competitive. It's going fine. You find a way to make it. My way isn't always the most moral way, but I make it through it in a relatively stressfree way (compared to other students in my school).</p>
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<p>PM Roger Dooley.</p>
<p>My school is only three years old and is ranked very low in Washington state. But we still have seven APs :)</p>
<p>Going to this school has already started to lower my self-esteem. Yeah, I have to fix that.</p>
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<p>...Lucky.
I wish I went there, but no, we have to live in Florida.</p>
<p>There are tons of great schools in florida... I go to a semi competitive school in florida, i call it semi competitive because only the about 700 or so kids which are in the IB and ap classes are the smart ones, the others just go to school for the heck of it. Anyways i hate the competiveness, 1st class rank goes out on monday and everyone is freaking out...not cool.</p>