<p>Yeah. Newsweek general rankings really do suck.</p>
<p>One of the best high schools in my area is pretty far in on the list.</p>
<p>And really, if they didn't have that Public Elite stuff, we wouldn't make it, no chance.</p>
<p>Haha, 5 APs offered...period. AP Calc BC, AP Chem, AP Bio, AP Physics, AP Stat.</p>
<p>...and you can only take 4 of them, max.</p>
<p>I would say my school is really competitive. I know people that gave people wrong homework assignments just so they get worse grades. I think it's gotten too far. Oh, my school is #5 on newsweek.</p>
<p>Let me put it into simple terms. I am a rising freshman, and I will be valedictorian. I'm not saying that to be conceited, or because I like bragging. I'm saying it because I have no one to compete with.</p>
<p>Newsweek ranking: 100000000000000000</p>
<p>8 AP classes. I don't think anyone has ever gotten a 5.</p>
<p>Does anybody here know that the Newsweek rating means nothing. It is easily the most flawed ranking out there. It's supposed to rank the best high schools in the country, but I guess that Newsweek thinks that number of APs offered is more significant than actual academic quality. Yes, you read that correctly. The Newsweek top 1000 high schools ranking is based on number of APs offered. There is a school in Tampa, Fl. called Hillsborough that isn't even in the top 20 in its county (no money, atrocious test scores, stupid students), but yet it's ranked #26 in the country! This is only because they offer like 50 AP's and everyone takes them, even though their AP classes are equivalent to 3rd grade level classes. And, I'm not making this rant, because my school has a poor ranking. My school is in the top 100, but unlike some of the other high schools on the list, my school has excellent test scores and sends about 10% of its graduating class to ivies each year. Just ask yourself; is there any correlation between academic quality and amount of AP test taken....</p>
<p>I think all of us agree that the Newsweek ranking means nothing. We just find it a passing curiosity. The fact that it doesn't take into account how students do on the exams is its fundamental flaw.</p>
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<p>Plano, right? If you don't mind sharing, which one?</p>
<p>o.O Plano? East or West?</p>
<p>I think both played us at Quiznet...</p>
<p>Whoops, meant rising sophomore. Not that it matters. But it did bother me.</p>
<p>Err... Kind of competitive. We offer about 15 APs... and no underclassmen take any APs (unless it's APES in the place of H Chem). But, no one is really cutthroat about anything. People get stressed out, but you don't find anyone taking advanced classes at the local community college, or entering Intel/Siemens, or taking olympiad exams (we only participate in USNCO). Most of the top 10/20 are potheads, and are very nice and not hung-up on grades. There's only one really nerdy, condescending, awkward, arrogant, and competitive guy... and he was my prom date... and I hate him.</p>
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<p>I think both played us at Quiznet...
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<p>My older sister is currently a rising senior at East (she uses this account too in passing). I used to live in Plano until last summer when our parents divorced, and I moved away with my mom. Ahh well, I wish I couldve stayed, but thats life for you. ;)</p>
<p>extremely competitive school... 20 in newsweek, requires APs to be taken in freshman year and all the way through.</p>
<p>457 haha
dropped from 91 in 2003
our school isn't great and the teachers are worse, its always the students and their parents that pull the API scores up.
However the number of classes offered and the quality of education still sucks</p>
<p>from 2006 out of what I remember
2 got in Harvard
2 got in MIT
3-4? Caltech
a few to the rest of the Ivies i think
there are over laps though cuz some people gets into everything
80 got into UC berk
more to the other UCs
out of class size about 400-450?
1st in the AMC in California this year
2nd in the United States for AMC
we are a pretty math focused school.
AP Calc is the common junior math class
haha the newsweek ranking is werid</p>
<p>We got ranked 655.</p>
<p>I go to a HUGE school (3200 students on a campus bigger than some colleges), so there's really every kind of student from total slackers to hyper-competitive geniuses. We offer more AP classes than most schools, and we beat the national average of students enrolled in AP classes. Our theater program has been chosen to represent the US at an international theater festival in Scotland this summer. </p>
<p>I like my school. Since it's so big, there's every kind of student and a lot of opprotunities to learn and grow. You could definately get lost in the crowd, but if you find your "niche" and are willing to work hard, you'll be fine.</p>
<p>Hmm, Class of 2007 (60-ish people per grade). Top Colleges:</p>
<p>Harvard: 2 going / 2 accepted
Columbia: 2 / 2
Brown: 1 / 2
Cornell: 2 / 2
Stanford: 2 / 2
U Penn (Wharton): 1 / 1
MIT: 1 / 4</p>
<p>Eh, it's a good number, with a few more in top colleges as far as I know.</p>
<p>My school is very uncompetitive. AFAIK, we've never sent anyone to an Ivy. We've sent one person to Northwestern and one to Carleton. Other than that, it's been nothing special. The school is beyond broke and so is cutting a lot - we need to cut over $1 million out of the budget this year. It's a small school, about 550 students in grades 10-12 (though the school is grades 8-12, I don't know how many people are in grades 8 and 9). And the class options are pretty much teh sux also - we offer 7 AP classes total: APUSH, AP World History, AP Calc AB, AP Stats, AP Gov, AP Lit, and AP Spanish.</p>
<p>On the upside, the teachers we have here are absolutely incredible. In the AP classes offered, there's something like a 90% passing rate and in Lit, Calc, and Gov I think the majority of students get at least a 4.</p>
<p>Very competitive and public. 30%+ students taking ap tests. 53 valadictorians this year. I know 3 kids going to stanford and 2 to harvard (but here are prob. more, those are just people I know). About 4200 students. There are 1,012 in my class.</p>
<p>My school is ranked low 200s in the Newsweek ranking. Its very competitive. 3 people that I know of got into Harvard, 4 to Standford, 3 to MIT, 2 to Cal Tech, 7 to UCB last year. And these are only the people I know of.</p>
<p>This is my high school.</p>
<p>Think small, rural. We offer truly only one AP course, AP Calc AB, and two starting next year, AP Euro History, but a chance of dumb luck. Though 5 of us did take APUSH this year, though we don't technically offer an "AP" course. I think in the course of our school's 100 yearish history, we've sent maybe a handful to any school in the US News top 25. Things are improving though, our class is billed as the top class to come through in 20 years. We might have multiple Ivy/top LACs acceptees for the first time in the school's history.</p>
<p>a girl came from the #1 ranked public school (tag) to my private school for junior year. she had made perfect grades at TAG, yet did horribly at my school. well not horribly, but made nowhere near straight A's. and people have come from highland park (#14) and done badly. i dont believe those rankings.</p>
<p>It's a jooke. I'm the only A in my precalc class. Second highest grade is a C-. </p>
<p>And the best thing is, I'm going to get into top colleges instead of the floods of prep school kids in supercompetitive schools because Ivies want diversify. Heheheh. :D</p>