does the hs you're attending matter?

Applying to College
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<p>my hs is one of the top 5 public hs in CA
api: 914
AVG. SAT: higher this year, this is for 2003) 1272
our valedictorian is usually 4.5/4.6
we offer around 9 APs but you can't take any until junior year
we count +/-</p>

<p>yeah, this probably can't stack up against east coast schools, but what i'm saying is, a B or even a C in one of our AP or even regular classes would probably be an A in any other school. but instead of people get lower scores, they work like maniacs to get A's. i'm not a genius in math, so my gpa is kind of low, 3.7 uw/4.0 w and i'm ranked 117/340 ish people. </p>

<p>since colleges get a profile of your hs, will a 3.7 at my hs count more than some oher hs?</p>

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<p>they do take the competiveness of your high school into account, but 117 is still rather low so i dont know how much it will help</p>

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<p>toffee, do you go to Saratoga?</p>

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<p>Or Mission San Jose? Oh wait your class size is smaller. Never mind then. But you asked a question I've been wanting to know the answer to myself.</p>

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<p>Yes, the high school you go to can matter....</p>

<p>The New England Boarding schools have a great realtioship with Ivies and other top tier schools.</p>

<p>My friend knows someone from Andover who had basically a C average, but was admitted into Georgetown...</p>

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<p>yea i live in orange county and attend 4th best public high school in california. I talked to my counselor and he said schools take into consideration the level of competitiveness of the high school and how everythng relates to that.</p>

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<p>beastmaster, do you go to MV?</p>

<p>yeah, i know 117 is low but i plan to get straight a's this year and all my bad grades are in math.</p>

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<p>Yeah.
It's okay, I have a lower rank. XP</p>

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<p>At a medical magnet school my rank is 30/200, how does that look? Srry to hijack this thread. :-(</p>

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<p>oh god, should've known there were MV people here. <em>waves</em></p>

<p>not very knowledgeable about the above, but it seems pretty decent to me.</p>

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<p>andomae, you go to mv?</p>

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<p>beastmaster, yeah i go to toga. are we top 1 and 2? or lower? </p>

<p>yes, i sympathize. it's okay, we could totally be valedictorians in some hs in the boonies. or so i tell myself.</p>

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<p>and gluclose 101, i think a 30/200 is good for any school, but ESP for a medical magnet school. now stop making me feel bad. </p>

<p>i am so depressed about my ranking...</p>

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<p>Well, our school claims to not rank, but I bet they do behind the doors, with the college admissions ppl. Oh well, I suppose ignorance is bliss; I have no clue where I stand in relation to other people in my class; I just know that I suck. :P</p>

<p>Oooh, Orange County people! I bet some of the people here go to Troy. :\ I go to Sunny Hills myself, a once prestigious public school gone crappy, thanks to our lovely ***** of a principal.</p>

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<p>mv? did you read the article in ny times about whites leaving mv + lynn b/c of competition?</p>

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<p>i did...our econ teacher printed it out for all of us</p>

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<p>lol. mv = monta vista and lynn = lynbrook?</p>

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<p>Cali is cool!</p>

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<p>yeah, i don't know why we're always ranked like the 49th state or w/e since i always hear of mv, lynn, and yes, toga. maybe there's like pockets of good schools and the rest are crappy.</p>

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<p>Oh, I thought Cali had a GOOD education system.</p>