How Would You Rate Your HS

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>I (too) have a goal of getting 1000 replies to my thread. So, I've taken the liberty of creating this thread. If you could please spend five seconds to reflect upon your high school and reply, it would be much appreciated. Thanks</p>

<p>I felt this topic is general enough so almost everyone can relate to, and yet also appear interesting or provacative to the reader.</p>

<p>How would you rate your high school on a scale of 1 - 10, 10 being the best</p>

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I would rate my high school a(n) __ academically
and a(n) __ for the opportunities that it presents.
I would give a(n) __ as a overall score.</p>

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<p>ill start</p>

<p>I would rate my high school a(n) 10 academically
and a(n) 9 for the opportunities that it presents.
I would give a(n) 8 as a overall score.</p>

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<p>I would rate my high school a 5 academically and a 4 for the oppurtunities that it presents. I would give a 6 overall. (I love my high school despite its many shortcomings)</p>

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<p>I would rate my high school a(n) 4 academically
and a(n) 3 for the opportunities that it presents.
I would give a(n) 4 as a overall score.</p>

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<p>6 acedemically, 2 for opportunities, 5 overall</p>

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<p>I would give my high school a 10 for academics, 10 for opportunity and 9 overall (there have been some issues as of late with social lives of students on campus as well as administration difficulties).</p>

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<p>5 academically, 5 for its opportunities, and 5 overall. Pretty easy there.</p>

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<p>10 academically (tops in the nation)
10 for opportunities (amazing)
5 overall - new administration has been ruining our school</p>

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<p>I would rate my high school a 4 academically (many students are dumb, non-honors courses are extremely easy)
and a 2 for the opportunities that it presents (3 AP classes, too many remedial classes, unfair distribution, limits on honors classes)
I would give a 3 as a overall score. (sports are some of the only good ECs, and as I stated above, it sucks)</p>

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<p>I would rate my high school an 8 academically
and a 7 for the opportunities that it presents.
I would give a 7 as a overall score.</p>

<p>This is hard to do, in my opinion. My high-school has an average SAT of 1085 and offers 17 AP courses(cancelled AP latin because not enough people signed up for it) and has a full IB curriculum. </p>

<p>It's a public school, and has faced some serious cut-backs. The teachers are good, but the administration is a bunch of good 'ole boy hicks. I have brilliant teachers with PHD's working for the school while on the other hand I have to deal with my Vice-Principal who has a B.S. in PE and Health. </p>

<p>My principal is terrible and scared away our only good guidance couselors and makes all teachers attend stupid meetings during their planning periods when they could be doing something useful. He also encourages teachers to never fail students even when they deserve to fail, and gives special preferences to the football players. For instance, last year, the qb for the team pushed a freshman and seriously hurt his head. Well, a teacher got angry and wrote him up(a discipline slip). Since this would affect the football game if he got ISS, the principle threw the note out! The qb didn't even get punished for being a jerk!</p>

<p>The gc's at my school are idiots also. It partly isn't their fault because I have such a big h.s. with so few g.c.'s but still... They accidently didn't send a transcript to one of my colleges! Luckily, I got in ED to my top choice, but that could have been a big problem! Plus, I almost didn't have enough credits to graduate because my counselor wrongly advised me!</p>

<p>Then, we have brilliant people graduate from every grade who don't go anywhere special. In my class of 450 people alone, we have 15% of students scoring above a 1300 on the SAT and 13 with SATs over 1450. We even have 2 1600s. Yet, no one has gotten in anywhere great yet except for Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Southern California, George Washington, Boston College, GT, and UGA. Last year, we had some kids go to Emory and MIT, but our Valevictorian with a 1500 SAT went to a second tier LAC! I think our GC's incompetence is to blame for this problem. </p>

<p>We do have some clubs, but not enough funding for sports. Our tennis courts cracked at the school, so we have to drive to the sports and recs park to play Varsity tennis. It's a shame. Also, drama gets shabby funding. </p>

<p>I guess I shouldn't compain because I'm heading off to my first-choice school next year, but my h.s. still needs improvement.</p>

<p>Good Post!</p>

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<p>uhh...can we use negative numbers...? lol J/k... but I don't feel like doing the categories so I'll just give it a 4 overall</p>

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<p>I doubt you're going to get 1000 posts, I say 100 top, and that's going to an extreme</p>

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<p>I would rate my high school a 7 academically
and a 6 for the opportunities that it presents.
I would give a 7 as a overall score.</p>

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<p>Hoo- your school cancels AP classes when there aren't enough kids? My AP Latin Lit course has 2 kids in it- and we aren't even in the same class. It's scheduled twice so we can both take it. </p>

<p>That said, I'd give my school an 8 on academics, a 7 on opportunities, and a 9 overall.</p>

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<p>I would rate my high school a(n) 9 academically
and a(n) 8 for the opportunities that it presents.
I would give a(n) 9 as a overall score.</p>

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<p>Er, that's the way most schools work. We can't have an AP class unless 8 people sign up for it, and then we have to get someone to teach it.</p>

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<p>I would rate my high school a(n) 9 academically
and a(n) 10 for the opportunities that it presents.
I would give a(n) 9.5 as a overall score.</p>

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<p>I would rate my high school a 9 academically
and an 8 for the opportunities that it presents.
I would give a 6 as a overall score.</p>

<p>I took a lot of points off my overall score because taking advantage of the quality academics and opportunities means hacking down a forest of red tape.</p>

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<p>I would rate my high school a 6 academically
and a 7 for the opportunities that it presents.
I would give a 5 as a overall score.</p>

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<p>"Hoo- your school cancels AP classes when there aren't enough kids? My AP Latin Lit course has 2 kids in it- and we aren't even in the same class. It's scheduled twice so we can both take it."</p>

<p>Yep. I took Latin 1-3 and had all As in the classes, so I signed up for AP Latin Literature with about 7 others. Well, due to budget cuts from the governor, we had to have 15 people for every class. We wanted to fight the school on it, but we really liked the teacher and didn't want her to look bad in front of the school(the principal gets ****ed when teachers argue things), so I just stuck with AP French.</p>