<p>Public elite.</p>
<p>Chipmoney:
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18784620/site/newsweek/%5B/url%5D">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18784620/site/newsweek/</a></p>
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But CT, that doesn't make sense in this case. A lower number is better than a higher number in rank. See?
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<p>Exactly. /<em>comment</em>/ :D</p>
<p>I see.
There there. No wonder you think HS is a waste of time.
You self-study everything anyway, don't you? Can't you register as a home-schooled kid somehow?</p>
<p>I wish I could. I want to drop out of high school. :D</p>
<p>"The Public Elites."</p>
<p>Surprised me. ^^</p>
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High Technology H.S.—Lincroft, N.J.: Takes top students from over 55 N.J. districts.
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<p>My school.</p>
<p>Taggart, is your username named after Dagny Taggart? (sp?)</p>
<p>"Public elite.</p>
<p>Chipmoney:
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18784620/site/newsweek/">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18784620/site/newsweek/</a>"</p>
<p>i saw that but it has no guidelines at all...</p>
<p>No Newsweek ranking. Maybe if considered from the BOTTOM 1000...</p>
<p>Not competitive at all. Our val got accepted to Ivy, and I think was probably the first if not one of the first to do this in our schools history. And our school has been open for a long time. She attending a top liberal though. Shows in fact how much our school sucks. </p>
<p>In fact....dare I say.....I HATE MY SCHOOL.
List of Suckiness:
No AP</p>
<p>No Honors</p>
<p>No IB(not even sure what this really is, just know we don't have it)</p>
<p>Only language offered is spanish and only 3 yrs.</p>
<p>Teachers teach sometimes 3 different subjects.</p>
<p>Math only up to trig. Calc dropped this year bcuz student body too dumb and only me and about 5 other kids were signed up for it and they have to have a certain amount or the class is dropped.</p>
<p>No Lab in our science classes.</p>
<p>No real clubs to speak of.</p>
<p>School revolves around sports. (This I don't mind as much, as I like football)</p>
<p>Lots of other suckiness I can't remember now. Sometimes I just drool at all the opportunities, programs, and clubs, that a lot of people have on here. If I only had half of that.</p>
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Taggart, is your username named after Dagny Taggart? (sp?)
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<p>yeah. Atlas Shrugged is one of my favorite books.</p>
<p>no newsweek ranking- but very competitive- about 20-30 ivies and top 20% go to top 50 schools id say- out of 420 or so...u can look at previous threads for the other information</p>
<p>haha do u go to mcnair charter?</p>
<p>ridiculously competitive...I go to a private school and acceptance rate for this year's freshman fell to below 15%. As for this year's senior class, 9 are going to Yale, 10 are going to UPen and several are to go to Harvard and Princeton.
Yet sadly, I'm not even in the 10% of my class.</p>
<p>No newsweek ranking cause only our senior high schools have a ranking which is aroud 300 i think. But it's actually quite competitive. We have a 1000 people in 9th grade alone, so it isn't hard to get into top 10% but it is really hard to get val. I am around top 2%. I need to get into top 1 %. But yeah our val is amazing, and our school is really good.</p>
<p>My school is not competitive at all.</p>
<p>This year is actually a pretty strong class for my school, with 2 going to Yale and about 8 going to Berkeley, 10 or so going to UC Davis, SB, etc., and the rest either going to CSU or CC, or military/work, out of about 400 students. </p>
<p>On average, its 1 to a top 15 school, 4-5 to Berkeley/UCLA, accounting for the prestigious schools out of 400 students.</p>
<p>Top 10 Privates.</p>
<p>The Newsweek ranking is BS. People in my school took over 1000 AP tests this year total and yet we are struggling to stay in the Newsweek top 1000. We are sending about 50 people to top schools this year, including Harvard (2), Princeton (3), Yale (1), Penn (2), Cornell (5), Columbia (5), Dartmouth (1), NYU (10+), Duke (2), Carnegie-Mellon (3), MIT (1), Georgetown (3), and many, many more. Most of the alumni here who go to top colleges come back and say it's much, much easier than HS.</p>
<p>My current school= so non-competitive its hilarious but its private school and there will never be any rankings its a special ed school..</p>
<p>former school= one of the best in the nation #42 on newsweek..but i sucked at this school</p>
<p>we're really competitive, but we're not ranked in Newsweek at all because kids typically don't take more than 7-8 APs out of their entire high school career. Nearly no underclassmen take any APs at all. However, the APs kids do take, it's like 90% get a 4 or 5.</p>
<p>Which is definitely a case against Newsweek.</p>
<p>But here's some of our acceptance/enrollment stats from 2006:
Harvard: 6 accepted, 5 enrolled
Yale: 1 accept, 1 enroll
Dartmouth: 6 accept, 5 enroll
Princeton: 2 accept, 0 enroll
MIT: 3 accept, 0 enroll
Stanford: 4 accept, 1 enroll
Columbia: 4/4
Cornell: 13/6
Brown: 6/4
UPenn: 4/2
UChicago: 12/7
NYU: 13/5
Tufts: 11/5</p>