Minjok and Daewon

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<p>I saw this in another thread, but I thought it's worth bringing to attention here because this thoroughly blew my mind.</p>

<p>Minjok and Daewon, respectively, scored means of roughly 2150 and 2170 on the SAT. In comparison, TJHSST, the highest scoring high school in America, according to [url=<a href="http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/high-schools/2007/11/29/shooting-for-the-academic-stars.html%5DShooting"&gt;http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/high-schools/2007/11/29/shooting-for-the-academic-stars.html]Shooting&lt;/a> for the Academic Stars - US News and World Report](<a href="http://daewon.seoul.kr/dflhs/dflhs_eng/daefh_mseng02.asp%5D%C2%B4%C3%AB%C2%BF%C3%B8%C2%BF%C3%9C%C2%B1%C2%B9%C2%BE%C3%AE%C2%B0%C3%AD%C2%B5%C3%AE%C3%87%C3%90%C2%B1%C2%B3%5B/url"&gt;http://daewon.seoul.kr/dflhs/dflhs_eng/daefh_mseng02.asp) scores 2155. The only American high school that I know of that scores higher is the Davidson Academy of Nevada located at The</a> Davidson Academy of Nevada ~ Test Score Criteria which (based on information I remember seeing a long time ago) scores around 2200-2300 in grade 11.</p>

<p>Still, I think us Americans should be ashamed that this could even happen. To those here from the US--to be blunt--we're America and it's an embarrassment to have the test scores of this nation's top high school students in our native language bested by students at a foreign high school. You can complain all day about how they "teach the test" or study all the time, how Korean students value test scores more or how American students are just so much more diverse but that doesn't change their score, which we should be obliterating. What American high school, do you know of, bests top foreign students in their own standardized tests? I can't think of any.</p>

<p>This raises the bar quite a bit... it's absolutely unbelievable.</p>

<p>yea well they house the best high school students in south korea, who want to go to school in the US...</p>

<p>what the hell did you expect?</p>

<p>I expected better from us? Schools like TJHSST house the best students in US that want to go to school in the US as well. What's your point?</p>