<p>hey... one race school here... 1500 white kids... and me... 1 asian</p>
<p>Uh, the average SAT here is 1140, which is very good for a school in our area. It's regarded as the best school in the county. Like half of the senior class will end up at UMCP, especially those who got in the Honors Program. A few community college and trade school people. And the top 15% will end up at the top 25 colleges. It's competitive, but not cut-throat thank goodness.</p>
<p>I went to public HS in Northern VA. Class of around 320-340, started freshman year with about 400. School average SAT was ~1090-1100. 35 IB Diploma Candidates, many more in partial IB program. Top admissions are the best schools in the country (ivy, etc), many [of the top students] to state schools UVA and W+M.</p>
<p>And I know this was said awhile ago, but I have to take exception to this:</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."</p>
<p>The magnet school for Northern VA averages 1480 on the SATs. The highest of any school in the country where the population takes the SATs (unlike schools that have been mentioned where only the very top take them, and the rest take ACT). They send 1/3 of the class to UVA, 1/3 to "better" schools, and 1/3 to "worse" schools.
<a href="http://www.prepreview.com/english/us/public/Public_Thomas_Jefferson.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.prepreview.com/english/us/public/Public_Thomas_Jefferson.htm</a></p>
<p>our school... wow, where can i start.</p>
<p>its a science/tech magnet school called TJHSST. it is the most challenging, rigorous school you'll ever go to. only 400 out of 3200 applicants are accepted each year, and is a school to over 10 districts in virginia.</p>
<p>the curriculum is so rigorous that, UVA accepts students generally with a 3.5-3.6 GPA, with some extracurrics. at our school, about 10-15% go to Ivy Leagues (this year, 15 students out of 400 are going to MIT. not sure about other ivies). in fact, UVA is considered a safety school. if you dont make UVA, you either go to Vtech or William and Mary (all in-state colleges). then there is the bottom 5% that go to either community college or colleges far out there that you've never heard of).</p>
<p>the school is a really interesting one. im glad to be going there; making it into college is easier.</p>
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<p>LOL! thats the school i'm talking about! its where i go to. haha, coincidence</p>
<p>mashimaroban: I don't know where you heard that it was easier to get into college from TJ, but there was an article in the Washington Post about 3 or 4 years ago about a study that found it was actually harder to get into a good college from a selective high school like yours.</p>
<p>Plus, I wouldn't say TJ is THE most challenging and rigorous school...I went to Blair, and we crushed you guys in Intel this year :-).</p>
<p>uh... i go to TJ, so i would actually know how well people get into colleges. trust me, a HUGE proportion of TJ students go to UVA. and its always a safety school, for half of that amount.<br>
yeah, well, we crushed you guys in the amount of semi-finalists, didnt we? -.-. and in the average SAT score. no? =D</p>
<p>sure, tj makes getting into uva easier. but it does not make getting into the most selective schools easier. there are so many qualified students and the top schools can only select so many from one school. its a tough situation when the majority of the class is applying to to the hardest schools. the average sat of people goign to james madison university from tj was above 1450 - you cant look at tj college application process as part of the larger national trend. - its a completely different realm. (the average gpa is around 3.7 and average sat 1480)</p>
<p>in my school, lets just say that every person goes to college and a good number of people received a 2300+ on the SATs- and a 3.9 gpa is in the 40th percentile- lol</p>
<p>my school is full to the brim with highly competitive intense kids who find it normal to study for 12 hours a day throughout the week.
that siad i must add that most of these kids are idiots.</p>
<p>i draw a line between intelligence and hard work.</p>
<p>some people i know did not know who our country's finance minister was (!) 99% of the kids at my school dont read the newspaper and know nothing of anything outside their little bubbles.</p>
<p>sure u may get super grades, but intelligence is much more than grades...</p>
<p>I went to an arts boarding school with around 240 students where you have to show youre at least a decent academic student as well as being artistically gifted to be admitted, so our stats are somewhat inflated when compared to a normal high school. My class had an average SAT composite score of 1149 and we had seven National Merit, two National Achievement, and one National Hispanic Finalist. Almost everybody took at least one AP course before graduation and we amassed just under $12 million in scholarship offers. A lot of us are going to conservatories or colleges and universities with top pre-professional arts programs, so we arent too heavily represented in the Ivy League though our Valedictorian is going to Swarthmore and we have one apiece going to Harvard and Yale. I guess around half are going to state universities and everybody is going to college somewhere except for a couple of dancers who are going straight to professional ballet companies. Dang we rawked! :)</p>
<p>NYC public school: 31.2% white, 29% Hispanic, 10% black, 29.6% asian and others...</p>
<p>My school's average SAT score is 1000 (old SAT / 1400 new).
The average GPA is in the 73-75 range (on a 100 scale).
The college acceptance rate is 100%, continuing education rate is 95%. </p>
<p>Class of '04
VAL : Greek male, 3 APs (Art, Eng, History), 92 GPA, around 1500 SAT
SAL: Brazilian female, 3 APs (""), 91.92 (also the val's girlfriend..how cute!), Bible school, around 1450 SAT</p>
<h1>3: Black female, 3 APs (""), 91.88 (lol), UPenn, 1400 SAT</h1>
<p>CLASS of '05
VAL: Greek male, 3 APs (Art, Eng, History), CCNY Honors, 93 GPA, 1430 SAL: Chinese female, 3 APs (Art, History, Calc), SUNY Binghamton, 92.9 GPA, 1350 SAT
3: Chinese fame, 4 APs (Art, Calc, Bio), SUNY Binghamton, 92.78 GPA, 1350 SAT</p>
<p>CLASS OF '06 (as of now):
VAL: Colombian female, 94 GPA (1 AP - AP Spanish), no SAT score yet, 145 PSAT<br>
SAL: Black female, 93 GPA (2 APs, 1 honors - AP Calc, APUSH, Honors Eng), 170 PSAT</p>
<h1>3: Polish female, 92.9 GPA (2 APs, 1 honors, AP Calc, APUSH, Honors Eng), 195 PSAT</h1>
<p>lets do a tj versus stuy debate haha</p>
<p>My private school in California is pretty small (86 kids in my class), and I think it's a good school, but kids definitely aren't that cut throat. Out of my class, 33 were accepted by an Ivy league school, 8 to Stanford, 10 going to UCLA and Cal, 5 going to good LACs like Amherst, Colby, etc. and a few others going to other really good schools like MIT and such. The rest of the class usually goes to pretty good schools too. I think our SAT average was 1380, with a GPA average of 3.35. We had 11 National Merit Finalists for what thats worth.</p>
<p>The thing is that our school of 320 kids also makes the playoffs in 3/4 of the sports we play in a league made up mostly of public schools about 5 times our size. I think probably why our school does well with colleges is that we're not all work-a-holics and while people are still caught up in the hysteria a bit, they actually do things for fun instead of resume padding.</p>
<p>our valedictorian is very smart and did bio research at several universities. our salutorian committed suicide a week ago.</p>
<p>Oh my god. That's horrible...I'm so sorry :(.</p>
<p>Hm. 500 in the senior class or so. Everyone is pretty much in the mindset of "take at least 1 AP and/or 2+ honors classes otherwise you'r ein the 'dumb' group" So because of peer pressure:</p>
<p>495/500 are going to college
5 are...going off to travel/live off a trust fund/work at minimum wage labor jobs</p>
<p>Average SAT (old): 1300
(new): 2200 (I'm the second lowest so far with a 2120) This is based on info I've gathered from my friends...There are 2-3 perfect 2400's at my school.</p>
<p>Well, grade inflation. About 150 have 4.0's+ weighted, but classes are hard. 80% of students pass the AP tests (the 20% who don't come from "weaker" AP classes that don't prepare very well). Next year, we have 20+ going to Berk, 20+ to UCLA, ~20 UCSD, ~30 UCD, about 10 to community colleges, 40-50 to CSU's, 20 going to "big name" schools (Stanford, MIT, Harvard, UPenn, Columbia, JHU, Northwestern, CalTech) and the rest to liberal arts schools or non-CA unis like Colorado or Michigan.</p>
<p>Pretty much, among the "upper tier" or people, if you fall behind in a class because you were sick, some people don't even want to help you catch up. It's that bad. I know because I was in that situation, so what the hell is "I don't know what the homework is" (when I ask someone who got the homework from the person who said that, she told me) and "...I'm too lazy/busy/tired to help you with your calc homework" (and then goes off to run at the track).</p>