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<li>Private</li>
<li>47</li>
<li>No IB program, a handful of APs (around 10)</li>
<li>Very, very competitive</li>
<li>All-girls prep school in an “old money” area in the suburbs of a major city, 100% of students go on to college (large percentage to top-name schools), good education, feminist, and plenty of drama</li>
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<li>Public mini-magnet</li>
<li>Next year we will have 150 students total.</li>
<li>Not very competitive per se… but very few people have <4.5 </li>
<li>Principal hates APs and thus I’m the only one taking them.</li>
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<li>Public</li>
<li>50</li>
<li>Required to take 1 freshman yer and 3 sophmore year</li>
<li>fairly competitive</li>
<li>not really</li>
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<p>1.Public
2. 4200 in school, around 1,000 in my grade
3.Some take around 3 a year, some take none
4. Moderately competitive
5. Very ethnically diverse, sports powerhouse of queens(NY), known to be a mix of gang activity and ivy-league bound students</p>
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<li>Public</li>
<li>about 400</li>
<li>fews AP’s are offered, we are an IB school.<br></li>
<li>maybe sends two per year to top schools.</li>
<li>very diverse school…there are extremes when it comes to students. A lot of the students that live within the boundaries of the school are very low income. Since my school is the only high school out of four in the district that offers IB, it brings in kids from all over the district to counter-balance the low income and poor test scores. That’s the only reason that they picked this school for IB in the district. Test scores were dangerously low, and they needed some way to bring the school up.</li>
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<li>It is a public facility, but has a mixture of students from both private school and public school backgrounds</li>
<li>205…I checked this week :)</li>
<li>I has an entire set of IB classes, but only 3-4 AP classes.</li>
<li>I am not completely sure. We are ranked 48th on Newsweek’s top 100 school</li>
<li>Unlike other schools, we allow kids to advance even in Middle School. I did Spainsh 1, 2, 3; Latin 1; Algebra part 1 and 2; Hon Geometry; Hon English 9; and P.E. 9 BEFORE I even entered HS. We also have the “Bridge Program”, which allows those in it to complete their requirements for the IB Dimploma by the end of their JUNIOR year, allowing them to take 6 classes at James Madison University their senior year. Despite that, our school is crap…we call it a trailer park due to the abundance of “class room” aka trailers lingering out side our windows… so sad.</li>
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<li>Public</li>
<li>We have three schools on one campus. There are about 600 in my class, but about 1300 juniors. </li>
<li>About 14 APs and a bunch of honors.</li>
<li>Probably about 20 people to top schools each year. A LOT to U of M. You fit in to one of three categories: Super competitive top 100ish kids, whatever kids 200-300 kids, and don’t care- the rest.</li>
<li>I go to the high school with the largest campus in the country. We have over 6,000 kids.</li>
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<li>Public
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<li>around 200, I think</li>
<li>Around 12 AP classes</li>
<li>The overachievers get into UC’s, but the vast majority of students go state university/community college. We did, however, have this one girl go to Yale last year.</li>
<li>My school really, really sucks- it sucked so bad, the teachers had a three-week strike last year because our school district has the lowest paid teachers with the highest paid school board, right before standardized testing and almost caused the school to be taken over the state. People have gotten shanked and jumped and arrested on campus. Some gang fights here and there. Recently, there was a big crackdown on the weed dealers at my school. The campus is crummy and falling apart. Half the kids are from low-income families. Half the teachers are really passionate about teaching, half of them don’t really give a ****. Our budget is very limited and us band/choir kids have to spend half our weekends fund raising or we’d never get to go anywhere.</li>
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<p>steelerfan513: I loved that book. lol</p>
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<li>Public</li>
<li>400 and dwindling every week</li>
<li>10-15 APs</li>
<li>Most don’t go to college, those that do stay instate or go to CC. Very, very few go OOS.</li>
<li>My school is ~89% Black in a pretty low-income neighborhood. The magnet programs (Performing Arts and Emerging Computer Technology) are what keep the school from failing, even though the administration refuses to acknowledge it…all students are equal BS. As a result, the whole school is managed poorly with little distinction between high level students and remedial students in the way they are educated. There have been several behavioral incidents (we had helicopters and tons of police on the last day), but its not as bad as it used to be. It’s a beautiful campus and the magnet programs are great, but everything else pretty much sucks.</li>
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<li>Private</li>
<li>~120</li>
<li>No APs or IB</li>
<li>~6/7 to Ivy’s this year, ~35 to other top schools</li>
<li>So theres like 10 people per class who really care about grades… yet still when people flunk out they make straight A’s in public school… so I guess my school is pretty hard?</li>
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<li>Public</li>
<li>~400</li>
<li>around 10 APs I think </li>
<li>School not too competitive. It’s student body is actually shrinking and grade inflation is very prominent. </li>
<li>Lots of liberal hippies. eww.</li>
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<li>Public</li>
<li>451</li>
<li>About 15 AP’s</li>
<li>Not competitive.</li>
<li>My school is pretty much a joke. I did about 4 assignments at home all year and finished with all A’s. All the kids in my class are a joke and the kid that is #10 in class probably has it with a 3.2</li>
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<li> Public</li>
<li> 51</li>
<li> No AP, IB, or Honors</li>
<li> Normally not competitive, by my class has 3 people with a 4.0 GPA. The class of 2008 is sending one to Notre Dame, but that’s the highest-ranking one.</li>
<li> My school is kind of a school in the middle of nowhere, where most people just want to go to a local Christian LAC to be with their friends. My school has plenty of students with academic potential, but there’s really no money for the school to realize it.</li>
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<li>Public</li>
<li>215</li>
<li>No IB, about 14 APs offered. All smart people have a nearly full AP schedule by senior year</li>
<li>If you’re smart, it is really competitive. 10 got into Penn this year, 2 to Brown, 1 to Harvard, 1 to MIT. Most others are probably going OOS, and anyone who is not is going to Rutgers, which is still pretty good.</li>
<li>My school is kind of split between the smart and the not. The smart kids all go to good colleges, the not kids not so much. All they care about is football and sports, and think that’s all there is to life, as they sit with Cs and Ds. The honors classes are really advanced though, and the kids in those are great.</li>
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<li>Public</li>
<li>323</li>
<li>9 offered</li>
<li>Not Competitive at all.</li>
<li>Summary of my school in one Word: “Sucky”…</li>
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<li>Public</li>
<li>750</li>
<li>23 AP classes offered. I’d say 70% of the class takes at least one AP.</li>
<li>I’d say top 10%-20% go to one of the top 50 schools on USNWR. It’s really competitive among the top students. </li>
<li>We dress the same, we talk the same, we watch the same things. I feel like even though our class size is so large, we have molded into one large identity. We don’t really have cliques like other schools because of the size of our class, it’s hard to stick with only one group of people. Mostly, people with similar interests, sports, etc. spend more time together. There’s not really a “popular” group. I don’t know, I kind of like my school.</li>
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<p>^ That’s interesting that your class is rather homologous. Personally, my class is full of diversity, and while there are a few cliques, it really makes it interesting.</p>
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<li> Public</li>
<li> 650 kids (it gets smaller for each class as kids drop out as the years go by)</li>
<li> 22 APs. The great majority of the top 10% takes at least 1 AP. To be in the top 10% you need a minimum of a 4.1% W GPA</li>
<li> Not much. Most kids settle for Florida schools. We send 1-3 per year to a top 20 school i.e. Williams.</li>
<li> I really wish they offered more courses. =( No AP Calc BC, AP physics C, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, etc. available. =(</li>
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<li>Public</li>
<li>245</li>
<li>there’s one or two AP courses that was offered…many other AP courses are offered online..less than 25 students take AP courses and they are usually seniors
**our school is trying to be ‘better’; they’re now starting to offer more AP courses w/ real teachers and even offer to pay for our AP exams…this is all happening, of course, after i graduate…</li>
<li>We have smart kids, but most/all of them stay in-state. I only know one kid (who’s in the top 5%) that going out of state lol, but she’s brilliant though..so like, virtually none of our top students send kids out to ‘competitive’ or ‘top’ universities.</li>
<li>Our school is pretty laid back, and we have great diversity in our student body. Not just in race, but also in personality. Everybody mainly gets along. We send about 1/4 of our class to college, the rest have to figure it out for themselves. (The only way for one to go to a good college from this school is if he/she plans it for him/herself.)</li>
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