<p>228th.. we were like top 30 two years ago!</p>
<p>hahah tako i had a heart attack.. at first i went leafing through the list and MV wasnt on there, i checked a second time and it was 147. dang, our school went from 57 to 147?!</p>
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<li>Down from 220 in '05. I don't think they ranked us in '03 because over half of the school was magnet. And now everyone is dropping out of magnet.
If we didn't have the residents than school would be so much better....</li>
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<p>Monta Vista is below Lynbrook</p>
<p>"WOW my skool's 659" - should be lower if that's the way you're spelling words.</p>
<p>Why am I not surprised my highschool didn't make it.</p>
<p>My school dropped 20 places =(</p>
<p>What? This is stupid. Stupid. My high school was in top 30 when I was a freshman there and now it's.... 61? </p>
<p>Yup, something's up.</p>
<p>I go to the City College that was bashed on the first page...</p>
<p>The classist spew that comes from morons like pprn00dle really makes me mad...</p>
<p>this ranking disgusts me - in no way does the ratio take into account the actual scores of those that take it - in our school, we maintain such percentages as 90% of students in AP Calc BC that get 4's or higher - in easier course such as AP Human geo, we laugh at 4's
I hear in some places in Florida, school practially require students to take classes when they don't want to (and when the AP test rolls around, they praise a score of 2)
Personally, at my school, I take 5 courses - i know some that take 7 and some that take none b/c my school gives us a choice
i can say i just took my AP eng lang test today and the seating was 50 x 30 - the ratio can't attest to a school's "ranking" if your school is large (mine is 4,700+)
i'm sure that school in dallas is small - what kind of public school is called Talented and Gifted</p>
<p>umm, pprn00dle, I have friends that attend city and they routinely go to Ivy league and prestigious institutions! for the shooting part, no one has been shot on campus in the last 20 years or more. therfore please shed a better light on Blatimore since there are fine institutions in Baltimore and good locations in the city!</p>
<p>thanks anisha08</p>
<p>oh at least we're in the top 150! </p>
<p>But 3.236 to 2.772?</p>
<p>Gosh and with the whole AP Bio-one-of-the-best in the world thing, i thought we would improve! </p>
<p>Hmm....</p>
<p>Truetrue. :( But our school doesn't offer THAT many APs come to think of it, we just are crazy competitive. Interms of state budget funding, of course we get beat out by magnet schools.</p>
<p>hmmm...how high on that list are you supposed to be for top colleges to care at all...</p>
<p>man we were like 250s now were 545......</p>
<p>The Public Elites is the list that matters most.</p>
<p>I personally think that the ranking is a bit messed up overall.</p>
<p>This list is complete crap. I went through all the Georgia schools and know most of them from having either friends there or casual talks through various band things. It's hilarious that some of the schools were ranked higher than us. But if it's based on AP classes we have a large school and have many people in IB, not AP. Not to mention that a lot of our funding was cut due NCLB for the AP classes. </p>
<p>But we definitely have better technology, higher SAT scores (according to the AJC), and a more expansive language program (to Spanish and French 7 this year.. will have Spanish 8 and 9 next year) as well as a higher rate of 5s on AP Calc BC (last year only one person of the 40 people who took the test got below a 4, and over half got 5s) than any of the north Atlanta suburb schools listed. Whaaaaat crap.</p>
<p>Haha yea, this sucks.</p>
<p>By this index my school sucks. It offers IB, but the clear majority don't take it. Out of my senior class of ~400, only about 60 are full diploma candidates. However, if you applied this ranking to just those 60 candidates our scores would obviously be higher.</p>
<p>Any list that ranks public schools and puts Scarsdale High School at number 164 is worthless and shouldn't even be read. It is probably top ten if not top five in the country in terms of quality and places tons of kids into Ivy League schools each year. Also, all of the schools on the list are average public high schools at best in that they DO NOT INCLUDE any school with an average SAT score of over 1300 (according to their Q&A section) - i.e. Whitney, Illinois Math/Science, Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Thomas Jefferson, etc.</p>