Is YOUR high school a gold, silver, bronze, honorable mention or neither school?

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<p>Somewhere in the silver list... I don't know how you know where your school ranks... in fact I can't find my school on the list (but the US News sight doesn't like my browser) but I know we are silver because my school wouldn't stop putting it in the announcements and on their website.</p>

<p>Wow. Talk about run-on sentences.</p>

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<p>We're gold (top 100), for the first time, and we were also ranked first by our state in it's academic ranking. Now we'll see if it helps with admissions. I'm not holding my breath.</p>

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<p>I would certainly like to see them rank only High Schools that do not have selectivity as part of their process. TJHS may be the top rated high school, but is it "fair" to hold them to the same standard has "Local High School #1" (fictional high school... representing the majority of US high schools) who receives their students from the "general population." If you read on the US News comments, their are many parents who are "proud" and proclaim how their HS's "earned" the ranking and then state how "hard" it is to "get into" their particular school. Personally, for me, what I would like to see is how are districts working with the students that live in their attendance zones. If a district hand picks their students and demand the standards of excellence to get into the program then why in the world should they not be number one or in the top ten?</p>

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<p>^ if schools don't select from a wide area, then the schools in the wealthiest towns win. this type of process can never be fair.</p>

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<p>My DD's district has 2 on gold and one silver which she is attanding because of IB program/gifted program.</p>

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<p>Last time I checked it was Gold.</p>

<p>It's still Gold.</p>

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<p>mike0515, perhaps your school just might become more than a lump of worthless coal if student's like yourself learn that "Mine's" is grammatically incorrect.</p>

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<p>^^...lol...^^</p>

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<p>^^...lol...^^ I guess that says it all.</p>

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if student's like yourself

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<p>Shouldn't that be written without the apostrophe?</p>

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<p>Uh.. we don't even get a metal ranking, we're a lump of smelly sulphur.</p>

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<p>do you think if you get a ranking your school is "competitive"??</p>

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<p>Oh so you caught the irony? Good job.</p>

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<p>Of course "Mine's" is a perfectly acceptable contraction for "Mine is," which fits the structure of the sentence and the context of the thread very well.</p>

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<h1>11. Gold medal. =]</h1>

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<p>My school is gold status. Whoopee.</p>

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<p>I'm a silver...that's not that bad, I suppose.</p>

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<p>Token, now you're just completely butchering the English language.</p>

<p>"Mine" is a possessive pronoun- just like "Jack's", "yours", "hers", and "His".</p>

<p>What were you saying again?</p>

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<p>This is lame, my public school is #2 in a competitive state, yet we aren't on any of that...</p>

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<p>Haha my school is a "Governor's School of Excellence" but we all know what a load of bologna that is. We're not even on the list. We're like the Jamaican bobsled team: epic FAIL.</p>