<p>What bull! Sure, some of the top high schools actually merit their rankings, but as much as some CC kids understand the flaws in the US News college rankings, high school rankings are much, much, worse. Jeesh. Rant over, I should probably sleep now.</p>
<p>I attend school in Arizona, the 49th best state for public education. It doesn't matter where I'll go in Arizona- I'll still receive a sub-par education (did I mention we spoke English 90% of the time in Spanish III?)</p>
<p>I figure I'll just attend a good college to make up for that. :)</p>
<p>Where did you get the figure "49th best" (lol) from? </p>
<p>btw, i was referring to boston magazine's rankings (or was it from somewhere else? i forget..) but ^ was pretty funny</p>
<p>i wonder what they base it on? average non-dropout rate? lol.
i'd have to say as long as a school has a lot to offer, it's decent.</p>
<p>State</a> ranks 49th in education study</p>
<p>I got it from that. It's actually a pretty notorious figure at least among my family and our friends.</p>
<p>Smartest</a> State 2006-2007</p>
<p>That one says we're the dumbest state. I only wish I lived in Vermont.....</p>
<p>High school rankings are based on the average number of APs each graduating senior takes.</p>
<p>atrophicwhisper - those rankings are so weird! how can california but the 47th smartest state? either i'm ignorant or those rankings are flawed. like all rankings inevitably are.</p>
<p>Yeah, they don't make sense; VM at #1 but NY at 16? CA at 47? Riiiight.</p>
<p>At least they can all claim to be in the top 50. =p</p>
<p>Well, here's what I imagine: California has such an influx of non-English speaking immigrants along with an increasing rate of minorities that it skews the study. The last time I checked, minorities outnumbered whites in California. </p>
<p>But who knows? Maybe the results are just skewed.</p>
<p>^they are.</p>
<p>well, let's think about it this way, in terms of averages. cali and NY have huge populations, and i know for a fact there are parts of NY that aren't so hot. Plus what atrophic said about cali. </p>
<p>it's like cornell being ranked 12th on US news, when in raw numbers, the top 1000 students of it's class beats out any other school in the nation.</p>
<p>still doesn't explain why texas is 26th. maybe texas is smarter than i thought (not dissing tx, i was born there)</p>
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<p>What do you mean? I'd say the top 1000 at Cornell are probably equal to the top 1000 at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, etc. Now, the bottom 1000 at Cornell... not so much.</p>
<p>The High school list is complete bull. I attend #7, but the list that most people know about is the list of schools that fail to break a 1300 SAT CR+M. It's pretty much the list of failures.</p>