<p>You might be thinking, duh, high school matters. But I'm not talking about that. There are very supposedly "stupid" public schools and smart private schools. In the private colleges, getting a high GPA and higher class rank might be much more of a challenge. Does this matter?</p>
<p>very random.</p>
<p>which is correct? can not or cannot</p>
<p>also, using 2 adjectives together dark, beast-like or
dark beast-like </p>
<p>... I don't really understand what you're asking but ok... There are some high schools which are more challenging than others, of course, but public and private have nothing to do with it. Someone who is in the top ten percent of a top 100 high school that happens to be public and a 2200 on their SAT, will have a greater advantage over someone in the top 5% of a mediocre private school and a 1900.</p>
<p>Yes it does. I'm not basing this on pure statistics, but from what I see in San Francisco. My high school is the top public school in the bay area top 5 in California. Annually, we send around 30 students to Berkeley and usually 2 or 3 to each HYPSM (I'm one of them(stanford), btw)</p>
<p>Meanwhile, at what can be argued as the distant second high school, only a few top students are sent to berkeley and HYPSM seniors are only once in a couple of years.</p>
<p>Lamdun- That doesn't sound right... my school, too, is in the top five. We send <em>at least</em> 10-15 kids to HYPSM every year. About 25-30 to Berkeley as well.</p>
<p>"2 or 3 to each HYPSM" as in 2 to 3 to harvard, 2 to 3 to yale, etc.</p>
<p>So 10-15 if you want to put it that way.</p>
<p>On that matter, I'm very impressed with Gunn High in Palo Alto. My pole vault coach is a teacher there and he told me that 19 students were accepted at Stanford alone this year. He also told me that many students felt shafted because last year that number was 38.</p>
<p>I will answer your questions, oh curious one.</p>
<p>I will begin with your first random question. </p>
<ol>
<li>"Cannot" is correct.</li>
<li>The dark, dangerous octopus camouflaged itself as a coconut.</li>
</ol>
<p>Now the highschool question- I think it depends on the schools. Georgia is ranked 49th in public education, second only to Alabama (I believe). Therefore, the Georgia curriculum shows an immense amount of impurities, thus forcing all of the public schools to, how should I say... suck? </p>
<p>There are a few decent schools, yes, but they're on Georgia terms, not National terms. I attend a private schools, simply because the public schools here are so bad.</p>
<p>p.s. I think it's immature of you two to have your little "Whose school has move people going to HYPSM?" contest. But maybe that's just me.</p>
<p>Yes it does matter---but not like you may think. Take me for instance. I'm in the top two percent of my public high school class. I got into MIT, because I did the best that I could possibly do at my high school. Admissions can't ask more than that. But a comparable student with my intelligence and motivation at a private high school would be scrutinized more closely because they'll probably be in the middle of their graduating class. I know a kid at a private school whose scores are actually better than mine (and a million extracurriculars) who didn't get in because his class rank wasn't good even though he had over a 4.0. From what I've heard from everybody, class rank is really what matters. It's how you do in your environment compared with everybody else.</p>
<p>oh --and I'm from Georgia too--actually one of the better public schools--McIntosh High School. Yeah, 49th really sucks doesn't it? But it's really just representative of all the bad intercity schools. I know that at Middle school science olympiad national tournaments, both of georgia's schools are always way up there---booth (yay warriors!!) beat Thomas Jefferson (supposedly the best private/magnet school in the nation) several times. So just because it's public in Georgia doesn't necessarily mean that it's bad.</p>
<p>Yeah I know of McIntosh, and I too did Science Olympiad. Man those were the days. </p>
<p>Sure, the intercity schools are factored in, but that doesn't mean that Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Cincinatti and other cities simply had theirs disappear. It just proves that education needs to be run by educators and not politicians like Kathy Cox.</p>
<p>Yeah, you're right about the intercity schools. I'm just glad that I'm leaving Georgia next year.
God I hate Kathy Cox. She taught at our school back in the day. My favorite bill that she tried to pass was "biological changes over time" instead of evolution. I still chuckle about that.</p>
<p>Also, stuff like the whole Cobb County evolution trial thingy really puts a bad rep on Georgia.
Again I say, thank goodness for good colleges outside of Georgia.</p>