<p>In my district, we have 2 high schools. The school district itself is pretty strong. However, of the two high school, one of them...lets call it school S is more known for getting better scores than school I (80% vs 90%). I am in school I. How much do schools look down on this. It seems that school S also seems to get more people into better schools. Or I might just be paranoid.</p>
<p>I don’t know whether colleges would see a less-than-excellent high school as a dealbreaker; if you went to a poor public school, it isn’t necessarily your own doing. Does your school offer college-prep classes, e.g. AP, IB, and honors courses? If so, that may make you a stronger candidate. Good standardized tests, essays, and recommendations may offset potentially problematic schools. This is just conjecture, though; I’m no expert.</p>
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<p>It doesn’t matter what school you come from; that’s not your choice. What matters is how well you take advantage of the opportunities available to you. Where it might be a disadvantage is that a better school will prepare you better for the workload once you do get to college.</p>
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<p>This could be true for a number of reasons. If the stronger school is in a wealthier area, perhaps the student population as a whole is more inclined to follow a track to 4 year colleges because of an easier home situation, educated parents grooming them, etc. It could also be that a stronger school will hand-hold people into better colleges more easily whereas at a crappy school it takes more initiative to be successful if your guidance counselor doesn’t know what the commonapp is. </p>
<p>The point is that college admissions are up to you. A weaker school might make it more of a challenge to find your own opportunities but it certainly won’t stop you from being a Harvard student. I know a lot of people here who came from bad school systems.</p>
<p>^ I agree, but I feel your chances increase substantially if you attend a feeder school. I believe only large differences matter, such as a school that does not offer any ap classes and forces you to self study all of them is alright I guess… but you would rather go to the school that offers a variety of ap classes.</p>
<p>Both schools like I mentioned are in a good school district. So we have AP and IB programs alright. But on all academic comparison (school grade reports) school S comes out on top. If we get an 8.5/10 they get a 9.5/10. And thats for all reviews. But both schools are in the same district with the same funding and same support, etc.</p>
<p>I went to a mediocre high school with very few adamced academic opportunities. Many of the people I met at Visitas were in the same position. You’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Well, if both high schools offer AP and IB classes, then there shouldn’t be as much of a pressing issue—it’s not as though you’re attending a high school that only offers basic math, English, history, and science. Those score tables are more relevant for the administration (in that they can affect funding, testing, and teacher salaries) than they are for students applying to colleges.</p>
<p>Ok thanks. I think I am worrying to much haha</p>