<p>I go to a private school. I get a much better education than I could possibly get at the public. And I’m much more prepared for college to boot.
Also, I’ve been to good public schools and a decent one (in a different state from where I am now), so I do in fact know both ‘worlds.’</p>
<p>It’s not wise or in any way correct to over-generalize the way you have.</p>
<p>I have already established this…but AP Exam scores can distinguish the AP classes of a school, depending on the Average Score.</p>
<p>You are very wrong about competitive schools having that. None of the top tier Private and Boarding schools have such a program and they are faring well with their Ivy League Admissions.</p>
<p>“competitve school have low honors, honors, high honors, AT (advanced topic), Ap (advanced placemnet), Ap Highest honors. These are only offered in magnet schools or extremly comptive schools”</p>
<p>This is actually incorrect. I go to one of the so colled “magnet or extremely competitive schools”, and have friends in many others, and I have never ever heard of these names.</p>
<p>These “extremely competitive” schools must have either tons of students or very small classes…how else could they offer 6 different levels of honors in the same subject, in addition to (gasp) regular level?</p>
<p>Seriously, high honors vs. low honors vs. whatever…</p>
<p>…it’s late and my eyes are probably deceiving me…</p>
<p>How about giving us the name of your school?</p>
<p>I think the OP is biased because of the low-caliber AP classes that he has seen in HIS school. </p>
<p><a href=“http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/tag/scarsdale[/url]”>http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/tag/scarsdale</a></p>
<p>OP, not all schools have sucky AP classes… </p>
<p>Is Scarsdale High even on Newsweek’s top 1000…? (A Note: Newsweek may not be accurate, but any GOOD school is at least within the top 1000…) All I see is Edgemont (40s)</p>
<p>FYI, the average student gets a 2180 on the SAT at our school (most don’t even study) and ~60% of all AP exams taken are a 5 so…</p>
<p>Also, with the new CB standard of turning in a syllabus, I don’t see how any reputable calc class can start limits in January…</p>
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<p>That’s so not true. A five is a five. If anything, the kid from a less regarded school gets the nod for overcoming whatever perceived deficits the school presented them, over your fine school and fine classmates. </p>
<p>The class labels are silly. When does Super-Duper Special-High But-Not-THAT-High Honors start?</p>
<p>Actually, where we used to live, the school was so large they had different levels of honors. Three in fact. We then moved to a school that had only 150 kids in the grade and they could not offer as many levels. It really stunk for my son, who was very very smart, but young and immature. He feel somewhere between honors and regular and they would not keep him in honors. If they had more options, he would have been placed in lower honors at our old school and been more challenged.</p>
<p>MomofFour, that would be right after Super-Duper Special-High But-Not-That-LOW Honors!</p>
<p>FYI calculus isn’t even on the regular SATs. All the AP exams are uniform, so if your AP class isn’t teaching you the necessary information then you will not pass regardless of which school you attend. You point out that it might be a bit incongruent if someone has all A’s in AP classes and doesn’t do well on the SATs or AP exams (since history and sciences and calc proficiency are not measured on the SATs)…but I would suggest that it might be equally disturbing if someone has all C’s, few honors classes and 800’s on the SATs. Were they just goofing off in class and not working up to their full potential?</p>
<p>oops this is one REALLY OLD thread!!!</p>