<p>I go to a magnet school... enough said..</p>
<p>9/10</p>
<p>^ not enough said. ever heard of Roxbury Latin, Collegiate, Andover, or Exeter?</p>
<p>I feel like you can tell a lot about the difficulty of a school's curriculum based on where graduating students go to college... those two things just seem to correlate. My school sends most of its kids to penn state satellite schools, community college, and sometimes drexel and temple. There's absolutely nothing wrong with any of those options, but we RARELY send any kids to top 30 schools.</p>
<p>It always depends on course selection for our school, it can go from either a 1 to a 10 depending on what you choose and how mature you are in handling it.</p>
<p>I think my school actually warrants a 9 or maybe even a 10. Even the "slackers" work for more than two hours per night, and some work for 9+ hours between 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM (Yes, this is actually possible at my school, I actually calculated that 9) and are still not done with their hw and have to stay up (have no idea average time here, so I won't guess). And one of these guys only has TWO honors classes and though he has gotten all As (new student, so only know grades for first trimester), he barely scraped by in some classes (only 5 classes, as well). And this guy isn't just a grind. He's actually smart (only like 10 ppl in my entire class got above a 4.0 weighted gpa, and our valedictorian has only gotten all As one trimester)</p>
<p>I know the above seems a bit ludicrous, but it really is 100% true.</p>
<p>Maybe what's needed to settle this issue once and for all is a playoff system.:)</p>
<p>Claire1016:</p>
<p>Yeah I agree completely. Nearly all of the kids at my school go to community college, very small/non-competitive private schools in the area, or the state schools (not that there's anything wrong with that). But, that seems to be reflective of my school's lack of rigor in its curriculum.</p>
<p>Schools with rigorous curriculum seem to send many kids to top schools, something my school rarely does.</p>
<p>We have maybe 1 student per year go to a top 20-30 school. Over the past 4-5 years I know 1 person who goes to Northwestern, 1 to UChi, 1 to Notre Dame, and I am going to WashU. Many high-schools, even ones smaller than mine, send more than that to top schools in one year.</p>
<p>7-8, pretty tough, most kids struggle.</p>
<p>But there are a <em>few</em> who can breeze through Honors classes, while the rest of us stumble around like idiots.</p>
<p>I'm at a decent public school, where the school's so large that there's a fair number of intelligent students and not-so-intelligent students.</p>
<p>If I had to give it a number, I'd quantify it around a 7, objectively (that is, if you're actually taking some challenging courses, or it could be like a 2 depending on the courses you're taking).</p>
<p>It's more like a 2 to me, but idk yet...I have easy teachers this year. Sleeping all day, playing all day, still enough for decent grades this year.</p>
<p>"Maybe what's needed to settle this issue once and for all is a playoff system."</p>
<p>haha yes! we just can't trust the BCS any more to decide exactly which school is the most insane and difficult on here. the high schools from the major conferences are just dominating this thread</p>
<p>By the way, in case you guys are wondering, I don't care what you think of my school, so I'm not going to waste time citing examples of workaholics at my school who got accepted into every Ivy and got 2400s on the SAT but who are making D's at my ridiculously tough school. This thread doesn't contribute to anything useful...</p>
<p>"I would give it a 3, only because I'm so awesome and I know it's more difficult for others."
^ LOL. My views are the same as DataBox's.</p>
<p>To be on topic, I'd give my school a 7-8. Some of the classes aren't that hard but some of the teachers are killer.</p>
<p>In my school, it depends on the strength of your courseload, and it mostly depends on your teacher.
College prep classes are such a joke that I don't even take any.
Honors classes range depending on the teacher (classes can go from really easy to harder than AP)
AP's: Our AP teachers are hard, but not that bad.
Overall: I'd say 3-6</p>
<p>Like... a 6. Our teachers expect us to come to conclusions. (This is actually very reality-shattering if you take into perspective the normal teaching methods of high school instructors.)</p>
<p>"This thread doesn't contribute to anything useful.."</p>
<p>Does it really have to? It's just a discussion...</p>
<p>Sometimes I wonder whether going to an uber competative high school gives you that much of an edge when you actually get to college. In my college courses that I'm taking now I've met kids who have come from competative private schools. They're doing well, but not thriving anymore than I am. Sure going to an academically challenging high school helps with study habits and time management, but I don't know if it reallly adds up to anything significant in the end. My friend goes to a private school near my high school and I was looking at her chem homework last year. It was exactly what we were learning at my public high school. It seemed like the ONLY difference was that they had a lot more busy work and the tests may have been trickier.</p>
<p>I'd give it a 9. Some teachers are ridiculously demanding. Its Academic Decathlon team ranked 3rd nationally last year.</p>
<p>My daughter attended a magnet public high school which is supposedly one of the best of its kind in the country. Must be true, as she was offered early admission to veterinary school during her first year in college. The HS curriculum was tough and they worked the kids very hard -- D never had much leisure time.</p>