<p>
Wow, that sucks for them!</p>
<ol>
<li>Public</li>
<li>756 last semester, but it’ll probably be less now (kids drop out)</li>
<li>Prevalence of AP/IB classes</li>
<li>We send a lot of kids to schools just outside the Ivy League range (but a dozen or so to Ivies every year..)–Tufts, Emory, Michigan are always very popular. Then again, we also have a lot of kids going to the nearby community college. It’s a pretty mixed lot.</li>
<li>Diverse in every way. Almost evenly split black and white with a good number of Latinos and some Asians as well. Socioeconomically, you can find a girl who lives in a 6 million dollar mansion on the lake sitting next to a kid whose family is on welfare. We’re pretty much all over the place.</li>
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<p>Oop, I skipped 3. We don’t offer any AP credit freshman/sophomore year except for students in advanced math courses. Junior and senior year there are a ton of APs…I’d say at least 2 in each subject, usually more.</p>
<ol>
<li>Public</li>
<li>Around 360 (but it really depends on the time and the fact that two of the nearest private schools closed will probably add some students to the count)</li>
<li>0 APs; 0 IBs (here, it’s in CEGEP)</li>
<li>Honestly? I don’t think a lot of people in my whole province went into competitive schools. I’m one of the few that know Ivy League and different colleges in the USA…</li>
<li>The students here are apathetic, there’s no open clubs (only Amnesty International and sports team, where the budget is generally spent on football and cheerleading) and academics are not challenging. I was only able to take 11th grade Bio as an elective (I’m in 9th grade) and it was because it was in the curriculum! I tried to petition to get out of English classes and my English teacher wanted to write me a recommendation but due to provincial laws, I can’t.
The teachers are nice though, and it’s one of the best public high school around here. They now have a quota of out-of-district students they can take. Enssentially a white school, nearly no Asians and only a few Blacks. Two or three international tops.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Public</li>
<li>800-ish</li>
<li>Several (enough for me to not be able to think of off the top of my head)</li>
<li>A lot</li>
<li>any1 who takes 3 honors classes and gets straight A’s (A minuses included) is a valedictorian–so we get about 15 or more each year</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Public</li>
<li>around 500 </li>
<li>more than 25 APs ; no IBs</li>
<li>there’s something wrong with our 09 year. there are MANY competitors this year. Right now, we have over 20 valedictorians and handful of sals. Even though its only end of junior year and many will probably drop during senior year, that just comes to show how competitive it is. Ironically, only about 1/2 of the class actually cares about college. The others are druggies or just don’t give care.</li>
<li>it’s ASIANS, Asians, and well, more Asians.
we’re rank around ~200</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Public</li>
<li>280?</li>
<li>8 APs</li>
<li>We send about 4 kids a year.</li>
<li>We’re somehow amazing at sports.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Private</li>
<li>420-ish</li>
<li>22 AP classes, about 15 IB</li>
<li>We usually send about 15 kids to the ivies, 20 to UCLA, 20 to Cal. Our school is very competative. If you are not taking a full load of AP or IB courses, you pretty much will not get into many good schools.</li>
</ol>
<p>How do a lot of you have more than one valedictorian and more than on sal? Our school only has #1 be val and #2 be sal…</p>
<ol>
<li>Private, All Girls’, K-12</li>
<li>46</li>
<li>We eschew AP courses, but all students are extremely prepared for AP exams (math, language, science, english). No IB.</li>
<li>Extremely competitive - one of the very best prep schools in the country. Generally all to top 100 LA schools, over half to Ivies, one or two to MIT, another few to Stanford. Sometimes, one or two to Oxbridge (!!).</li>
<li>We’re a tiny, cream-of-the-crop, all girls private school that has decided to basically drop ALL AP label classes and replace with “Honors” college level classes. Very liberal and strongest in humanites (incredible debate), however we just implemented a new four-year science research program where students study with a college professor researching a specific topic.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Public</li>
<li>~400 Students in class</li>
<li>~15 AP classes available</li>
<li>There’s 2 students off to ivy league, 3 students off to selective liberal arts colleges, 1 off to u chicago, and 1 off to NYU. Then there’s a group of 20-30 who are going to out-of-state large public uni’s, and the rest are staying in-state.</li>
<li>Not very competitive at all. Our school used to be the preppy rich white people school with about 2% minorities but when there was a new school built our school became way better, the other school got labeled as the rich white kid school with no minorities, and our school now has 40%+ minorities due to changes in school boundary. All our counselors are nice but incompetent, I know at least 1000x more than all of them combined about college admissions (thanks to CC!)</li>
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<p>Hey, runspotrun: Spence?</p>
<p>I recall when I visited Middlebury, and spoke with a Spence girl and a Collegiate guy–when I told them where I had attended high school–they practically ignored me =)</p>
<p>I’ll have you know that 5 applies to us as well. However, the Hearn shall always remain the undisputed champions of speech and debate.</p>
<ol>
<li>Public</li>
<li>~1600</li>
<li>All APs offered (with prerequisites), no IBs</li>
<li>Pretty Good (1 is going to Cornell, 1 to Duke, 3 to UPenn)</li>
<li>I have no idea</li>
</ol>
<p>@ wantivy
well basically, everyone who has earned 'A’s their entire 4 years are 'val’s and those who earn all As except one is ‘sal’. I dont think we have an official title for ‘sal’ but the graduating class know who they are.</p>
<ol>
<li>Public</li>
<li>500</li>
<li>16 AP Course, 0 IB</li>
<li>Above-average in terms of competitiveness, 25 go to UC Berkeley, 30 go to UCLA, 6-9 Ivies, 3 Stanfords, 4-6 Northwesterns/ Rices/ Washus, etc</li>
<li>We have a great swim team, water polo team, math team, and excellent social science and music programs.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Public</li>
<li>640</li>
<li>a whole shload of both (and yet no AP Calc and AP Physics C)</li>
<li>very competitive…although i think my school is going to get its a handed to itself once the standardized score results come in</li>
<li>all the smart girls are too arrogant for their own good</li>
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<p>oh about 30 go to UCB, 15+ Ivies…and there’s always a few kids that get accepted to MIT</p>
<p>1) Public
2) About/almost 2000
3) Full IB, tons of APs (many APs are integrated with IBs though i.e. AP Euro is with IB World and you have to self-study the ancient stuff). IB diploma is by choice. Anyone can take IB/AP classes, as many or as few as they want (as their schedule allows).
4) Fairly competitive, sends most students to local university (which is fairly good) and a quite a few ivies every year (though last year was terrible).
5) We have tons of asians, and they’re all very competitive and fairly cliquey. The school across town gets the rest of the minorities. Otherwise it’s just an upper-class school. People are generally nice though, there aren’t too many of the pretentious type.</p>
<ol>
<li>Public</li>
<li>750</li>
<li>27 APs offered, no IB program</li>
<li>Class of 2007 (since I found it somewhere): A lot of OOS schools. Columbia, Penn, & Princeton attended. 72% to a four year college (that class was 653 people), 91% to a higher education.</li>
<li>Lots of crazy asians. Lots of clubs and sports, state champs in a few I think.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Public</li>
<li>Roughly 120 per year</li>
<li>We have about 10 AP classes (maybe a couple more), as well as a couple classes that get you community college credits. Probably about a third of the class takes them. No IB classes- I never even heard of them until I came here.</li>
<li>Usually, we send a few kids to Ivies and other elite schools, but that didn’t really happen this year. Almost all of us go to 4-year schools, though, and a lot of us go OOS.</li>
<li>There’s not much to say about us- my school’s mostly upper-middle class white kids. The only thing that sets us apart is our talent for basketball and our almost obscene devotion to the Dave Matthews Band. (Their devotion, I should say. I hate DMB.) We have good technology and some really amazing teachers…but most of the students just don’t care enough to take advantage of it.</li>
</ol>