High School Size

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<p>So, I used to think I come from a small place. Geographically, we're pretty much in the middle of nowhere, and resource-wise I might as well be in a desert (not entirely incidentally, this used to be a desert pre-irrogation). But I'm looking around at everyone's posts here, and there are like 300 people per senior class. Mine has about 650; 3000 total for the whole school because of the explosion in housing development.</p>

<p>What does this mean? What's normal for the Ivy applicant? How can my school be so huge and so backwards at the same time? Grrr....suburbia.</p>

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<p>650 seems large for a high school...or if not large, then definitely not small. I come from a rural/suburban area, and my senior class is 400, which is far too overcrowded for the size of the school (which isn't really that small of a building). I guess it's all just relative to the geographic area.</p>

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<p>I guess I attend a small school; 400 in my junior class, (largest), 1500 in high school (combined)</p>

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<p>520-ish students in my class. (I live in Southern California)</p>

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<p>Where in SoCal, applegirl? Closer to SD or LA?</p>

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<p>LA. I'm in Orange County. :)</p>

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<p>Hey, my dad works in Orange County. Irvine actually. Housing prices through the roof, man.</p>

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<p>yeah, i felt the same way tkm. my senior class is like 1000 kids...</p>

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<p>Geeze Louise! 1000 is insane. Do they hold two graduation ceremonies by last name, or torture everyone with a 4 hour procession? ;)</p>

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<p>my school is juniors and seniors only, less than 200 in each class.</p>

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<p>yeah, the procession is like 4 hours long...</p>

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<p>120 in my class here.
but I almost went to Stuyvesant in which case I think its closer to about 900.</p>

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<p>I have no idea, but I'm guess mine is around 200 something</p>

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<p>700s here man</p>

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<p>in the senior class we have like 632 i think. and overall a tad over 3000. in so cal i think everywhere is like that. cuz its such a great place to be of course.</p>

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yeah, i felt the same way tkm. my senior class is like 1000 kids...

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<p>I know what you mean. 865 right here...</p>

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<p>87 and will most likely decrease to 80 by the end of this trimester. My school kicks out students that don't have enough credits to graduate, so there are no super seniors.</p>