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<p>you should have left the SAT score out of the description!</p>
<p>One girl will be playing lacrosse for UNC in the fall, and another will be playing soccer for Penn. A member of our outdoor track team went to nationals this year. And we have a nationally ranked swimmer who swam in the olympic trials (didn’t make it to the actual olympics though unfortunately).</p>
<p>Academically we’ve got 7 or 8 people from last year’s graduating class going to ivy league schools. One kid applied out-of-state to UNC Chapel Hill and ended up getting a full ride to go there.</p>
<p>Within my group of ~50 students we have more students scoring above 2250 than below. More 35’s and 36’s than I can count on my fingers (and probably toes).</p>
<p>Last year a kid qualified for the Canadian IMO team.
We had a double state champion sprinter, set a state record for rushing yards as well.
Tennis singles champion three years in a row, and a pair of doubles champs.
I took 20 AP and IB tests through junior year. Will finish with ~25 tests total, fairly normal for my graduating class.
We had an RSI and a TASP.
This year - over 10 to HYP, plus a kid doing the Columbia-Julliard program, and that’s not counting the Caltechs or MIT’s.
No Olympic athletes, though we had a pole vaulter make it to the trials.</p>
<p>One kid, who is a junior, at my school is taking multivariate calculus, linear algebra, abstract math this year and plays varsity football and couple of other sports. He was also national ranked in his language. On track to take bunch of high level upper division college math classes in his senior year.</p>
<p>Also, has a bunch of APs an SAT 2 with multiple 800s.</p>
<p>I’m sorry this is so off topic, but how do I create a new thread? I’ve been trying to for about 30 minutes.</p>
<p>Go to the bottom of the front page of HSL and there should be a thing that says New Thread. Or the top of the page. I’m blind. Haha.</p>
<p>My high school had a senior that was on a national singing competition last year and she got second place. I’ll keep it vague.
Pretty fun stuff.</p>
<p>@Forever58: Interesting. What’s the name of your school?</p>
<p>In my school, one guy got accepted into Stanford, something which hasn’t been done in about 10 years.</p>
<p>There was a guy at my school who took 16 APs (2 Soph., 6 Jun., 8 Sen.) and got all As in the classes and 5s on all the exams. He had like a 2360 SAT and like a 5.45 GPA weighted. He won every single AP Scholar award, was valedictorian, in a thousand clubs, leader positions in many of them, won numerous national math and science awards, and won many awards for speech and debate, which he loved. He got full rides to Duke and Vanderbilt and several other scholarships from other prestigious institutions like Brown, Cornell, and UPENN. He chose to go to Princeton though. Also, on another side note, I took some of the same AP classes he did with some of the same teachers and all I ever heard of was how he made like 9’s on almost every APUSH essay (he had a 99 average in the class), and scored 93s and 94s raw on the hardest practice exams at the end of the year for AP Gov. and he ended up getting like a 113 curved score.</p>
<p>We had a girl who was the 3rd fastest runner in the country lol</p>
<p>I guess I’m going to freshman year and I got 150 on AMC10…if that’s somewhat impressive? Yeah I know…it’s not much…but my school isn’t competitive. :/</p>
<p>A kid made it to the interview process at Harvard.</p>
<p>For my school (rural), that’s legendary.</p>
<p>My school has produced quite a handful of “extreme” characters!</p>
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<li>sons of a former NFL linebacker, playing football at Stanford and Nebraska now</li>
<li>models for Wilhemina and Ford Agency</li>
<li>Class of '12 Valedictorian was a Flinn, AP, and NM scholar, and was accepted to Harvard, UChicago, Princeton and Stanford.</li>
<li>Finalist on So You Think You Can Dance.</li>
<li>State champion diver, slated to compete in the 2016 summer olympics</li>
<li>Teachers that were olympic athletes or played for the NFL or MLB.</li>
<li>Class of '08 valedictorian went to Caltech and is now working on the atom smasher in Geneva</li>
<li>We also produced a serial rapist murderer, who attended back in the 80s. Woo!</li>
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<p>Hate to break it to you, but there’s no such thing as an interview round. If I remember correctly, they just give interviews to as many applicants as possible.</p>
<p>it’s not exactly “extreme”, but this one kid that just graduated was incredibly charismatic and had no comfort zone. He was president of everything, ran track one year because he felt like it and was amazing, auditioned for a really heavy drama without any prior acting experience because he thought it would be fun and blew us all away, went to DECA internationals and placed, is an Eagle Scout, in the IB Diploma, was runner-up for Homecoming King, and everyone from teachers to students to security guards love him. He’s above average smart, but not a genius. He now goes to Cornell, though. Everything works out for this dude, but you’d never be jealous of him. He’s the best, and I’m glad I got to know him this year.</p>
<p>Oh, and we’ve also graduated Broadway’s biggest diva, as well as a Satan-worshiping murderer.</p>
<p>So he lied to me… lol.</p>
<p>Then I guess we’re just really cruddy. A 1600 is considered a “great” SAT score here.</p>
<p>Well I wouldn’t see much extreme people at my school, but I got to hand it to my relative. He entered competitions at like age 8? Then got transferred into a good school because of his grades. And is now coming up with theories which MAKES SENSE. And right now he’s only in the first year of Junior High. Usually our conversations would be about science and he understands well about how life works (as in physics, how math came to form, why we use certain math methods, how forces applied on life, etc.). He even figured out this one impossible question or at least impossible to the scientists and mathematicians right now. He told me how he got the logic and well it made sense. He even started designing things. And he got full scores on the state tests. Well he’s extreme to that point…to the point he usually talks about science and points out flaws in like everything which can get annoying .____. He’s also trying to come up with cures and stuff to help society…His love for education is strong, and I’m happy for him ^o^ I know he’ll far in life.</p>
<p>Woah you must go to a prestigious school to have so many talented people! :O</p>
<p>Drew Brees! (much younger than me, lol)</p>
<p>People in school with me:</p>
<p>A Gold Glove winner who played with the Toronto Blue Jays.</p>
<p>A guy who was partly responsible for the Red Sox losing the World Series in 1986.</p>
<p>A girl who did research with Stephen Hawking. I lost touch with her, then saw her one night on a PBS special.</p>
<p>In my previous STEM magnet high school, 7 students in my graduating class received 36 on the ACT. Also, a recent grad is currently studying at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Also, each year our school sends 10-15 kids to intel isef/sts/Siemens etc</p>