<p>doesn't it **** you off when kids who went to noncompetitive schools go "i never study, but i'm valedictorian of a class of 500, hehe"</p>
<p>it annoys me to no end! i cannot be consoled.</p>
<p>I take it, it's bothering you that you live in the Library and you are still at the bottom of your class. Don't worry Daddy will buy you a spot at Harvard, or in your case Brown or Cornell.</p>
<p>ky97942-just how many 500 person noncompetitive (presumably you mean "public") high schools do you know? Just how do you know they're noncompetitive? Inquiring minds would like to know.</p>
<p>Wow strong ignorance.</p>
<p>I'd have to say I hate it too. I'm 32 in my class of 177, but it started as over 200 kids. Many kids failed out because I attend a difficult school. My classes go twice as fast as the classes at the public school in my town. It does kind of stink to know that had I gone to my public school, I probably would have been in the top 10%.</p>
<p>it's like hotchkiss or lawrenceville vs a random public school in California.....the adcoms are not robots..they know better
btw i chose california becoz the education system in CA..ah hem....thanks to that jacked austrian</p>
<p>mlevine07-I agree that you would have been in the top 10%, but do you think you would have been valedictorian of a 500 person "non-competitive" school, as the original poster is casting aspersions on?</p>
<p>valedictorian and top 10% is different. For the 350 available spots in my highschool, this year there was an applicant pool of around 9000 students. Acceptance rate is lower than HYPSM .lol. To ****ing bad that the colleges in the US don't know about this..</p>
<p>I go to a private school, one of the best in my country, and yes it does **** me off lol, but its fine when they're validictorian or whatever cause they deserve it, cause even if its not a very comptetive school being in the top 10 is pretty hard to achieve. Im just ****ed that colleges in the states wont really know that my GPA is so much harder to get than this other kid at a public school where they probably sell the exam questions to them, cause Us colleges arent really going to know about every school here.</p>
<p>Exactly.......juggie,, where are you from ??? I have a similar problem too.</p>
<p>I should know better than to respond to this type of thread, but here goes...
SOME public schools are less competitive than privates and SOME privates are less competitive than publics. It would be better to erase the public/private designation and go with competitive/non-competitive. All of us can find examples of each type in our home towns and I have to think that the ad coms of the top schools, who frequently receive applications from said schools, know the profile of the schools and rate their applicants accordingly. For the record...an IB diploma or similarly rigorous course of study is hard everywhere. No one is selling the answers or making it easy for top students to get straight A's. That is very tough. As far as big publics go, there tends to be a "school within a school" for the top IB/AP kids. They are not competing for the top ten spots with kids who are taking "regular" and/or vocational classes; they are competing with other highly motivted, hard working students who are determined to get on to top schools.</p>
<p>where I live all publics are pretty bad...
comfy, I'm from saudi btw</p>
<p>yeah, same here man......all the publics are bad.....</p>
<p>Making blanket statements is ignorant. First, many adcoms do know what schools are competitve. Second, I go to a public school and have approximately 675 kids in my class. My school is very competitive. As a matter of fact, the western suburbs of Chicago have some of the most competitive schools in the country and adcoms are aware. One of my friends applied to a college that required top 5% of class to be admitted. He was in the top 10% and the college admitted him - based on the fact that he came from such a competitve area/school. Finally, many of the private schools in the Chicago area are much less competitve than the public. The local private schools offer very few honors/AP courses and have little variety in course selection.</p>
<p>daviban , I'm sorry but I'm talking about the public schools in my country...Rampant Cheating and stuff like that....And I hope the adcoms in the US know about the schools here...How hard the courses are and other things...</p>
<p>I go to an insanely competitive public school (non magnet, etc. regular public school). We have FIFTEEN people tied with perfect 5.0s for val. right now. We send ~30 kids out of 400 a year to top 30 colleges and LACs. Dont tell me it's unfair.</p>
<p>Sounds like it's a ready excuse for getting defered/rejected...</p>
<p>Justification...blame the inequity in the system..."poor me for being affluent, for going to private school..."</p>
<p>Every year...the same thing. Complain about it, then make blanket statements about ALL public schools. That's not very intelligent.</p>
<p>BTW: as a private school person, I can attest to cheating at the private schools, and it is in the top 5.</p>
<p>Yeah. I'm pretty sure my competitive, non-magnet public highschool is more difficult than your private school. However, most of our students have less money and will end up going to the state uni on full scholarship instead of Harvard or Yale...although there is certainly the Harvard/Yale contingent as well. In one of my classes, three students out of thirty recieved a perfect 2400 on the SAT, and two more, 2390. Everyone else scored 2200+.</p>
<p>I'm not one to grouse, but I was forced to attend a school with a graduating class of FOUR. I was valedictorian, but that is negligible. It is thoroughly vexating to think that I could have easily been in the top 5%-10% in a competitive public school. My point, even though the American school system is skewed, you shouldn't complain because someone always has it worse off. </p>
<p>I actually happen to know a person, whom was the only person in his graduating class.</p>
<p>^Dude, where do you live/go to school? That's amazing. Is it a special kind of school or what?</p>