<p>not even close 
wish i had these cool charter high schools at my disposal, though. wisconsin (and particularly my part of wisconsin) doesn’t have much in the way of public boarding schools.</p>
<p>I’m sure the list is somewhat biased towards some aspect.</p>
<p>And, again, it doesn’t include private schools.</p>
<p>I’m not surprised mine is so high. It goes 2-12 and all we heard throughout those years were speeches related to going to good colleges, utilizing your gift and getting prepared in middle school for high school classes.</p>
<p>Though, my school had the best teachers ever. They all genuinely cared about you and really wanted you to meet your potential. And my school was a liberal hippie school. (It didn’t have sports. If you wanted to be cool, you joined Speech and Debate or were a filmmaker.) It was amazing.</p>
<p>Of course, my school was heavily biased towards the rich. The county I live in, Sarasota, is so expensive to live in. Many of my friends’ parents were doctors or lawyers. Some of my friends’ parents paid a lot of money to move across country just to come to my school. Though, you couldn’t tell unless you looked at the school parking lot… which was filled with Mercedes, BMWs, Lexuses, etc.</p>
<p>Haha, I can’t believe anyone still reads these lists. They’re so bogus (high school AND college rankings by US News… and most other rankings as well).</p>
<p>I’m guessing you go to Hart?</p>
<p>Mine usually makes the 1000 list on that one site but our AP pass rate is 20% lower than state/national average</p>
<p>^ The school a district over always makes the top 1000. It is such a joke school but they continually shove kids into taking AP tests. Something like 21% of the test takers actually passes with a 3 or higher.</p>
<p>Wow, my school is 80. Not bad at all</p>
<p>My school has a 90 something pass rate of AP exams, though. Kids are smart enough to know that if they don’t do well in a subject, to take Honors instead of AP. (my school doesn’t offer non-honors)</p>
<p>^ If all of your classes are honors/AP then doesn’t that defeat the very purpose of an honors course?</p>
<p>My school is a gifted school. You have to have an IQ of 130 to get in.</p>
<p>Having a regular speed class would be too easy and definitely not challenging enough. My school is all about pushing you… hard.</p>
<p>^ Yes, but an honors course is supposed to be a step higher than normal classes within the school. Hence, an honors course in an all-honors high school defeats the purpose and is just redundant. </p>
<p>Btw, IQ tests for high school are ridiculous. :rolleyes: IQ tests are notoriously inaccurate.</p>
<p>I’m from an upper middle class college town, and a lot of my friends’ parents are professors, engineers, politicians, lawyers, etc., but our school isn’t even ranked in the top 1000.</p>
<p>I love it when poor people get into better schools than rich people.</p>
<p>my school not on there because many of the students at my school are satisfied with a 3 and hope to get a 4 or 5 by luck. Or that they don’t take ap exams seriously enough.</p>
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<p>It’s to show college admissions that we are taking honors classes. If the honors/lowest classes were not marked as honors, that would screw us over for applications. They are equivalent to honors classes at other schools, why should my school not use the title of honors? I don’t think honors is relative to each particular school. And many people take advanced classes in middle school that give them high school credit (e.g. taking Algebra I in 7th grade), so those are definitely marked with honors to distinguish those classes. The only high school classes not marked as honors are your first two years of foreign language, since that is mandatory by the state of Florida.</p>
<p>I don’t think IQ tests are that inaccurate for general intelligence. Yes, there are cultural biases but that clearly doesn’t matter since there are many types of people who go to my school. My school is pretty diverse in many ways (except economic, but there are a few poorer folks like me). You have genius academic students, you have extremely artistic students, talented musicians, etc. who all foster in an academically-focused environment. You can have an intelligent conversation with almost everyone in my grade. And I know a couple of years ago, the average SAT score for my school’s graduating class was 1340, which isn’t bad at all.</p>
<p>At graduation, since class sizes are around ~150-180 students, the principal reads our names and then talks around one or two minutes about that student, saying what all they did in the community, what their specialties/hobbies are (film, art, music, computers, etc), major accomplishments/awards and where they’re going to college. From listening to everything, I guarantee you that no one thinks that the IQ standard placed on our school was inaccurate.</p>
<p>Maybe schools around you that got ranked high don’t deserve it. But my school is legit. I’m not saying it’s better than other schools that it beat, but it definitely deserves to be highly ranked.</p>
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<p>Only 1340/1600? My school has an average SAT of 1500+ and my school is completely crap.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but I had to say that. :)</p>
<p>Why do you say your school is bad?</p>
<p>Dammit, you were supposed to be skeptical of my claims.
My school really is terrible. I’m an international - I’m the only one who took the SAT in my school. :p</p>
<p>Sorry, I fell for the trap. :)</p>
<p>Do you have any SAT-like test in your country?</p>
<p>Not exactly SAT-like, but we do have standardize multiple choice exams, which are often the sole basis for admission.
I don’t know the exact scores but my school is probably average at best.</p>
<p>i see lowell/gunn/mv/lynbrook/paly are in the top 100 as usual</p>