Large School

Applying to College
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<p>I go to a pretty huge public school (850+ in my graduating class). I do pretty well anyways (top 10% atleast), but sports haven't went so well. Will the fact that my school is huge help me, or will colleges not care?</p>

<p>BTW, many people were/are in your graduating class (in HS)?</p>

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<p>I don't think the size of the class matters that much, unless you're the valedictorian. Otherwise if you're in the top 10%, or top 25%, or whatever, you'd probably be in the same percentile ranking no matter what size your school is. </p>

<p>At a large school it is obviously harder to make a varsity team, so they might take that into account with extracirriculars.</p>

<p>My son's class has 350.</p>

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<p>Um, Bump I guess...</p>

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<p>"it's a very competetive school, the average writing, physics and chemistry SATs were in the mid 700's. If my scores are lower than that, will it hurt me?"</p>

<p>Average? Are you sure? Even TJHSST's average scores don't reach the mid 700s... </p>

<p>Did your school publish that their averages were this high, or are you deducing it from people you know? Because I have a hard time believing that's true (especially since a school having 2600+ students would lead me to believe it's a true public school).</p>

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<p>Average subject test scores are usually much higher than average SATI scores. At my (public) school, both bio tests, math2 and physics have averages in the mid-700s, and chem and USH have averages in the low 700s. I'm getting this right from the school profile. So it's definitely possible.</p>

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<p>Ohh, I misread, my apologies.</p>

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<p>what about the oppostie situation. say, a graduating class of 11 (myself included). being in the top ten percent means being number one and being in the top 25% means being in the top three. my hs is about 57 kids large and shrinking.</p>

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<p>thats crazy, 11 kids? I mean thats kind of cool, but it kind of sucks at the same time, I guess it depends on where you stack up and if the poeple you go to school with are your friends.</p>

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<p>it wont matter. 432 in mine</p>

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<p>about 230 in mine</p>