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<p>Trust me, the odds are they already know how “rigorous” your school is. Adding an honors in front of every class defeats the purpose when EVERYONE takes honors classes.</p>
<p>I’ll dissect the rest of your post later, I’m going back to bed :).</p>
<p>40% of Ivy students are from private schools anyway…and sorry fuzzleshnops, even though you clearly made this thread to stroke your ego, “Pine View School” has no special cache with admissions while publics ranked under it like Stuyvesant and Boston Latin do.</p>
<p>“My school is a gifted school. You have to have an IQ of 130 to get in.”</p>
<p>If they’re not using some absurd extremely inflated IQ scale then no one at your school should have trouble with AP classes, and there should be no need for honors classes. If they’re offering lower classes than AP and everyone has a 130+ IQ that’s not at all about pushing you. </p>
<p>They’re either not pushing you, or they are using some inflated IQ test and your school is unimpressive.</p>
<p>A school like that should have honors be the highest level, something harder or beyond the level of the AP classes.</p>
<p>^ Cranbrook is in Michigan and places a paltry number of students in to top colleges compared to the performance of truly elite privates…you fail.</p>
<p>Man, that post makes me wish I had gone to an elite private so I could have gone to a top college.</p>
<p>Oh, wait…</p>
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<p>I was accepted to Andover/Exeter/Deerfield but attended a private day school in nyc instead. I never considered Cranbrook.</p>
<p>^ i don’t spend my time ■■■■■■■■ an online forum, so i will now stop responding to your posts</p>
<p>Nothing on the Cranbrook website makes it sound any better than top public schools in Michigan. I can also tell you I never even heard of it until it was mentioned here.</p>
<p>I can tell you that here in Michigan that Cranbrook is just seen as a school that really rich kids go to. Not really smart kids.</p>
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It’s ridiculous to judge a school based on it’s website.</p>
<p>I don’t go to cranbrook but I have a few friends there and Cranbrook is a highly ranked boarding school in the states. I am pretty sure people who have gone through boarding school admissions have all heard about it… I personally find it insulting that a boarding school like Cranbrook which costs about 40000 a yr is being compared to a public school since I attend one too… but I guess I can’t say much since I don’t know what the TOP public schools are like.</p>
<p>I think my school is about 59 or 60. GO GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH!!!</p>
<p>Boast my ego? REALLY?</p>
<p>I’m just proud of my school.</p>
<p>“It’s ridiculous to judge a school based on it’s website.”</p>
<p>It’s ridiculous to judge a private school based on it’s website? No it’s not!</p>
<p>They’re job is to convince you to hand over a bunch of money to go. In fact, that’s their number one priority. If they can’t do that well, it’s not a very good school.</p>
<p>Nope, mine isn’t on the list. I’m not surprised that Pine Vew is on it though - and number 14 at that. I lived in Sarasota all through middle school, and regret moving away instead of staying and attending Pine View (it would have been the school I went to, had I stayed).</p>
<p>I doubt that the best schools on this list are that much better than the ones around 1000. I mean, we’re not comparing Thomas Jefferson-whatever and Detroit Public Schools. The best schools just get the best kids - and usually, who the best kids are is decided long before high school.</p>
<p>Boston Latin School is overrated.There are a lot of public schools in MA better than BLS.
[Public</a> Schools Chart - Boston Magazine](<a href=“http://www.bostonmagazine.com/boston/public2009]Public”>http://www.bostonmagazine.com/boston/public2009)</p>
<p>Schools in suburb are usually better than the examination schools in the city unless city like NYC with a huge population.</p>
<p>Yeah mine’s on there.
CHS, baby</p>