<p>Hi guys, i've been looking through this forum a good while now and i loved how involved everyone in this forum is.Also i'm pretty new to posting stuff, but i had a couple of questions in mind.</p>
<p>1.Do colleges really look at the highschool u attend?
Because currently i'm a junior attending Boston Latin, (bls.org) and it has a pretty good reputation of being the 1st high school. So i was wondering if that would help at all when college admissions look over your transcript?</p>
<p>ALSO:
2.Are there any really good engineering colleges in the Northeast people would suggest, thats urban, and is diverse?</p>
<p>We had the MIT adcom come to our school and talk about the college admissions process, and she did say that high school mattered (but then what else would she say to a roomful of people who pay $20K a year to send their kids to the "best" area prep school). The sense I got was that the adcoms have a relationship with the GCs at these schools and can work together to find a fit and that they know the programs at certain schools and know that their graduates meet high standards. You're at a great school (and I'm not just saying that because my kids' favorite teacher just started there this year) and I think it will make some difference.</p>
<p>I think it matters to a certain extent. It depends whether you "stand out" at your high school. For example, I used to go to a highly competetive private school but felt overwhelmed and decided to switch to a more "laid back" school. At the first school, I was somewhere in the top 50% of class rank, whereas at my current school I'm top 10%. I got into good schools in my opinion, definitely some of the best from my class, but then again, everyone in the top 10% got into great school- like ivys. Now at my old school, hardly anyone got into ivys, and most didn't get into schools like me and my current peers did. You have to stand out I think, even at the best private schools in the country.</p>
<p>Sorry if this wasn't what you want to hear, it's just been my recent experience/opinion.</p>
<p>High school matters in that if you go to a top high school and get lower grades, colleges realize that you could still be at the level of the valedictorian of a less competitive school. It could also work the other way though, if you're at a top school that offers a lot of AP's, you better be taking them and have a competitive schedule while in a school with relatively few AP's, its understandable if you dont take many.</p>
<p>"Jonathan K. -- He means that Boston Latin was the first high school in America. I think."</p>
<p>Oh.. okay. I thought The Collegiate School in Manhattan was. At least that's what wikipedia said. It was actual the first educational institution in the U.S. I think. Look it up. :)</p>
<p>Head Master John Lovell closed the school during the Revolutionary War by saying, "War's begun and school's done; deponite libros [lay down your books]". The Roxbury Latin School, founded in 1645 in Roxbury, Mass., is therefore the oldest school in continuous existence in North America, since it remained open during the war. Roxbury Latin, a private school serving boys in grades 7 through 12, moved to West Roxbury, Mass., in 1927.</p>
<p>Roxbury Latin is a private school; Boston Latin is a public exam school and I believe is the oldest public high school in the US. (Don't trust wikipedia for anything - anyone can post any "information" or edit anything they want.)</p>
<p>Jonathan K., again, Collegiate School is a private school (and not strictly a high school, since it's K-12); Roxbury Latin is also private. Boston Latin, on the other hand, is and always was a public school, paid for by the citizens of Boston. It is the oldest PUBLIC high school in the US.</p>