<p>Like 40% of my class are national merit semifinalists.</p>
<p>hmm...600 in my junior class, and we haven't had any Ivy acceptances as far back as I can remember. The top 5% of the class will go to UF, and the rest will either stay home and go to USF or to UCF. </p>
<p>Odd thing is, my school is one of the most competitive public schools in the whole Tampa Bay area as far as I'm concerned, with plenty of AP classes to keep me busy. From Tampa, I've really only seen IB kids make it to the ivies, and even there these are only the elite. I guess the whole region is in a slump compared to the rest of the country...</p>
<p>it really does seem like a lot of people here are the very best kids from some pretty terrible schools. it's something that i hadn't (but now will) associate with the typical CC kid.</p>
<p>I'm so glad that my school doesn't rank.... it's one of the most competitive schools in the country, if not the most. We're expected to go to top 25 schools no matter what... it's scary!!!!</p>
<p>I go to a small rural upstate ny school...near woodstock. Lots of hicks and lots of hippies, it's a unique mix...
Anyway, there are 173 in my graduating class. We get ok placement into top schools - basically if you want to go to a good college you can make it happen if you work hard enough. However, if you don't care, there's really no pressure to care.
Truly, I'm not sure if we could be called competitive or not. I guess we have the resources for those who want to do well, but not many people want to do well.</p>
<p>Competitive...? Not my school. Maybe a 15% four year college going rate, with one person going to Berkeley every year. We figure it's because they feel sorry for us. Nobody has ever applied to an Ivy in a decade or more. It's mostly CSUs.</p>
<p>well last year one person went to Brown another university of sciences um one went to emory dats all i know</p>
<p>Ridiculously competitive. One person at my school in the same grade as me is the biggest bookworm you will ever meet. And she's not even asian! Her biggest weakness: lacks A LOT of people skills.</p>
<p>Our average unweighted would probably be 3.4</p>
<p>hmm...about the crappy school-smart kid thing...peer motivation is a strong thing, and maybe CC extends some of that motivation to those brilliant kids at bad schools ^_^ :)</p>
<p>I've been wondering, when people say they go to a really competitive school, does that mean they have a large percentage of people who are high scorers/good GPAs or competitive in that people are fighting for ranking spots test by test?</p>
<p>My school was recently named a silver medal school (top 500) in the US News. It's competitive in the sense that there are a lot of talented students, especially at the top.</p>
<p>most % of ppl going to ivies, highest average AP/SAT score</p>
<p>Ha ha Missy Jo: "It was standard IB schedule, except I was one of two kids to take BC Calculus as a sophomore at my school."</p>
<p>I laugh because I am one of four people to take BC Calc as a senior at my school!</p>
<p>About 1700 kids in the school, a little more than 400 per grade. There are about 70 or so kids in each grade who take honors/AP classes, and of those maybe 30 or 40 with GPAs above 3.75. Last year, our school sent someone to Yale, UPenn, UCLA, UMich, and something like 40% of our school went to UConn. The year before, there were two Yale admits, one Cornell, one Columbia, two to Carnegie Mellon, a couple Northeastern admits, a couple NYU people, and once again many to UConn.</p>
<p>This year has been kinda different. Everyone who applied to Yale EA got deferred, however there have been a few admits to other top schools. UPenn had two from our school and one is going to Columbia. </p>
<p>So from there I deduce that our school is average. Like 10-12 of 400 people go to top 50 schools, which really isn't too impressive. It's pretty bad for a school which says that its one of the best in the state.</p>
<p>I go to a large public school in Southern California. My graduating class has ~660 students, but the unusual thing is academically each class is represented by an inverse bell curve. We have an incredible amount of brainpower and strong GPAs (3.85-4.0 UW, 4.4-4.71 W) at the top, hardly anyone with "average" stats, and then a huge amount of people with poor grades. Average SAT among the top 25 students is probably 1950-2000, for the school as a whole it's 1472. Last year we had 2 national merit semifinalists I think, and we usually send 1-2 kids to the Ivy League every year. Last year our val went to Princeton, we had 2 go to Berkeley, 1 to USC, and about 8 or 9 to UCLA. This year's graduating class seems to be extremely competitive however; everyone is talking about how the class of '08 will get into more top colleges than any other year. We'll just have to see...</p>
<p>my school is bland, bland, bland. we always have one or two kids that go to an ivy. then about 20% go to either Fordham, Northeastern or UCONN....etc</p>
<p>usual class is made of about 150 kids... makes doing well in class rank hard.</p>
<p>heh, in terms of class ranking, the people in Top 10% are literally tenths of a point away from surpassing each other. Like, I have a 94.1 avg, the person who's 6th has a 93.9 avg, and the person who's 10th has like a 92.9 avg. :-P</p>
<p>Relatively uncompetitive by CC standards. Out of a class size of about 1500 (for three schools on one campus), it may be competitive for the first hundred or couple hundred, and then it gradually declines.</p>
<p>CC-standards: "Aw man, I got a 1550/1600 on the old SATs..."
My old school's standards: "Woo hoo, I got a 1550/2400 on the new SATs!!"</p>
<p>Alex</p>
<p>incrediblycompetative, graduating class of about 50. Ranked 14 on newsweek</p>
<p>ranked in top 30 according to newsweek, I feel it's pretty competitive.</p>