<p>Newsweek just realesed the new rankings based on the 2006-2007 school year!!!</p>
<p>mine isn't in there...</p>
<p>oh well... I guess taking college courses eliminates it from rankings :(</p>
<p>crap. My school is like 1000th. I just moved from the 125th school though.</p>
<p>Is that bad? Do colleges really care?</p>
<p>^ I don't know, but I wouldn't rely on it much. My school is #5 but only because of what classes it offers. I doubt it'll make a difference.</p>
<p>not including schools like stuyvesant/TJ/NCSSM/etc. + not including private schools = why bother</p>
<p>Dont worry. Those rankings really dont mean anything to colleges. My school is in the 100-300 range even though we offer more APs than any other school in the nation (well, according to my teachers), but our district separates 9 and 10 from 11 and 12 and we have an enormous graduating class, which is what Im guessing is pulling us down. Ah well, Im disappointed, but trust me, no college is going to turn you down for going to an 1000+ high school. :p</p>
<p>TJ would own if it were there. :p</p>
<p>My school will never be on there.</p>
<p>We offer 4 AP classes, total, all 4 years.</p>
<p>And yet we have one of, if not the, top SAT mean scores in NJ.</p>
<p>my school isnt on there, haha.</p>
<p>Mine wont be on there either. We don't offer ANY AP's. >.<</p>
<p>Pssh, my school isn't on there, but this crappy school (Patrick Henry) is #500 simply because it offers IB. Nobody who wants a decent education goes there.</p>
<p>Oh man, if I gave a crap at all about science league (meaning, of course, if I was ANY good in the sciences), I'd feel offended. Our techie-science-nerds are rather passionate about their respective competitions though, so it's kinda funny seeing how into it they are.</p>
<p>I am going through an early onslaught of senioritis. I hope it goes awayyyyyy.</p>
<p>The annual Newsweek "best high schools in America" ranking is incredibly misleading; it ranks schools based on how many AP exam they administer, NOT the pass/score rate, which I believe, reflects the "best schools in America". Just because every student in the school takes an AP isn't reflective of the strength of the school; the pass rate/avg. score is what matters. Sure, you can force every student to take an AP, but if very few pass, I don't see how that could make a school "better" than another school with very high pass rates/scores, but less students. </p>
<p>Over time, I suspect many high schools have caught on and encouraged ANYONE to take an AP, regardless of how well they can and/or will do. My high school just a few years ago was in the top 25; now it's in the top 200, and the same, if not more students have taken APs. Just look at the index of the top 25 schools... incredibly inflated numbers in a otherwise pointless list.</p>
<p>My school just wasn't on the list because it was simply wayyy too good to even bother trying to rank. We do, afterall, have 5 AP classes. And we send a lot of students to community college. </p>
<p>Haha.</p>
<p>TJ, Stuy, NCSSM, and the like ("Public Elites," as Newsweek dubs them) are on a separate list:</p>
<p>Crappy rankings.</p>
<p>I wonder if they have some private hs ranking... Aren't these all public?</p>
<p>Yes, they're all public.</p>
<p>Mine is not up their but I didn't expect it to be.</p>
<p>Haha, my school isn't on there but one of the choice of 3 school districts because of where I live and the other 2 are on there. I know for a FACT though that at least one of them isn't better than mine.</p>