How smart are the people at your school?

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<p>My school has a high GPA. the top ten percentile has a 3.7 or higher. The average SAT score is about 1050. Students who are ranked in the top ten percentile have SAT scores from 1150-1500. The students who have SAT scores between 1100-1300 and have a 3.5 or higher usually go to the UCs. Two students have an SAT score in the 1400s, none have in the 1500s. ap calculus is usually taken by smart seniors, never by juniors (although i did take the ap test as a junior, 5).</p>

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<p>Harvard will never take 5 students from a school, no matter how ridiculously brilliant it is. It will especially not take 5 students from a class with only 57 students.>>>></p>

<p>Its entirely possible. My school was a public magnet school, and our average SAT was around about 1380. Highest average SAT in the US for a public school. Average class was 180, we sent about 4-5 to Harvard a year, and we're a school in Los Angeles County, probably the highest applications per acceptance out of any geographical area for Harvard.</p>

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<p>It will when the Dean of Admissions attended it, her daughter did as well, and the Dean speaks at our graduation every year. No exaggeration, straight from our school profile.</p>

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<p>My school, as a whole, is smart:</p>

<p>Private school (90-100/class)
Average SAT from last year: 1298</p>

<p>Some college choices for last year (although last year's class was abnormally smart):
UPenn (9)
Princeton (4)
Yale (3)
Brown (3)
Cornell (3)</p>

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<p>Okay here goes the worst school in the list so far. the average SAT score is 750 and only the top 30% take the SAT. We have a graduation rate of 9%. The school is, get this, in front of a project and behind another project, then next to a burned out building. We have metal detectors, x-ray machines and kids still sneak weapons in. Just the other day a kid bought in a internet bomb and the whole city was put under alert, the SWAT team was bought in and everybody was evacuated. I am the valedictorian and have the highest SAT score in the history of the school. Its not even 1300.</p>

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<p>Oh... Dean of Admissions. I take that back. -___-</p>

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<p>Class of 237, pretty wealthy and competitive public high school in Southeastern Massachusetts. Six of 237 scored 1600 on the SAT, 11 more over 1550. The top 40 is so competitive that our GPA has gone to the hundredths point since everyone has almost the same grades (I'm 35th at 3.93).
In addition, for those of us with "lower" scores, our school is also a highly competive athletic school. My football team just repeated as state champions (<a href="http://www.mansfieldfootball.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.mansfieldfootball.org&lt;/a&gt;) and my track team has now won seven straight Division III state championships (XC, indoor track, outdoor track).
Early signings for sports thusfar (that I know of) include Brown, Davidson, Georgetown, Notre Dame Colorado, UPenn, UCSD, Stanford, Wooster, Bowdoin, Amherst, Williams, Vermont, and UMass-Dartmouth.</p>

<p>Sucks.</p>

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<p>Highly ranked public school, in middle-uppermiddle class. 97% white.(school needs more diversity)</p>

<p>82% went to a 4year college or higher.
8% went to community college
4% army/navy/airforce
6% workforce</p>

<p>Average ACT score, 24.9
SAT, not sure (SAT isn't a big deal in midwest)
middle 50% of class 3.3GPA</p>

<p>1st ranked guy/girl both had 4.8GPA</p>

<p>554 students in graduating class.</p>

<p>(11) WUSTL
(9) University of Chicago
(8) University of Michigan
(2) Stanford</p>

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<p>One of the top pubic schools in Maryland, and one of the top in the nation</p>

<p>Ranked 37 in a newsweek article I think...</p>

<p>From class of 2004....</p>

<p>Columbia 2
Dartmouth 3
Brown 1
Georgetown 8
Johns Hopkins 7
Northwestern 5
Princeton 4
UPenn 7
Yale 2
U. Michigan 9
UVA 7
UNC CH 5
Washington University St. Louis 11</p>

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<p>My school is a top ranked school in CA, and is ranked 600something in the nation. Not excellent, but pretty good. </p>

<p>At my school, anything below a 4.17 (W) is the 2nd decile. The only recent school profile I can find is from the 03-04 school year. The seniors c/o 04, had a class of 486, and 95% attended a college. 68% went to a 4 year college (last year 4 attended Harvard, 5 others attended misc. Ivies/top LACs) and 27% attend a 2 year college (the local JC). </p>

<p>Heh, my class (juniors) has 650 people, I would bet 99% are going to attend a 2-4 yr. college.</p>

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<p>Tiny public math/science high school in MA. Takes the top students from high schools all over MA. Our graduating class has 43 students.<br>
100% go to 4 year colleges.<br>
Average SAT is between 1350-1400.
About 5 students each year will go to a state school, and the rest all go to private schools. In the past 2 years, we've had acceptances to pretty much all of the ivies, MIT, Stanford, NYU's Stern, Georgetown, Amherst, Caltech, and a lot more.</p>

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<p>Hey iolllloi, do you go to RM?</p>

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<p>my school sucks at the sat</p>

<p>class size 633</p>

<p>sat avg mid 900 - 960
top score this year was 1460
only score in 1400 above zone</p>

<p>less thann 10 people got 1300 </p>

<p>only one person in the last three years of graduating classes had a above 1500
and less than 5 had above 1400 - out of the last three classes= 5 /700 people scored( approx amount of people that have taken the sat in the last 3 yrs) above 1400 on the sat within the alst 5 years</p>

<p>our school needs help for testing</p>

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<p>let's put it this way....average ACT was a 20! However the top 25 or so are pretty smart.......</p>

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<p>My school...
a public arts school.
average ACT- I think somewhere around 22.
awful class selection but amazing arts programs.
Last year our val was national merit (1st in the history of the school), and went to Barnard. This year we have a couple national merit finalists (i think), and so far an abysmal record with ED/EA acceptances- everyone was rejected except the sal who was deferred at MIT.</p>

<p>There are some smart people at my school, a lot of them in my arts program (creative writing), and a whole lot of less than smart people. it's frustrating, because with limited course offerings I'm constantly in classes where we're taught things like what a plot is. rar.</p>

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<p>sigh....my gpa of 3.91 weighted is only #41 out of 344 people..my school ranks now..they just started to rank this week.. weird eh?</p>

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<p>My school has a lot of very smart, very competitive people, but we also have our fair share of mediocre students and a number of students who barely get by. We have more disabled and rural kids than the other school in the district and that school has more money, so our test scores (especially assessments for No Child Left Behind) are lower.</p>

<p>Our school average ACT is 22. State average is 21.6. National average is 20.9. Minimum score for acceptance to public schools in Kansas is 21.</p>

<p>So yeah, we do ok.</p>

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<p>87th in the nation, 1 in az</p>

<p>98% on to four-year universities, 1% to 2-year
63% out of state</p>

<p>i have the 3rd lowest SAT score in the top 5% (about 30 people) with a 1520</p>

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<p>my school is garbage. there are more 200s on SAT sections than 700+ on a single section. yeah.</p>

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<p>our valedictorian has about a 5.05 out of 5.33, where as i am 20 and have a 4.58, fairly wierd because the top 15 or so aren't even that smart, they get mid 1300s but after that me and several other kids hover around the 1500 mark... 1-15 are in regular honors 16-25 are mostly in aps, kind of a wierd break down if u ask me, oh right 450 in my class</p>