<p>Hello! In my city there is a new college prep school opening. My parents are trying to decide if I should go to that school, or the local public school. At the college prep school I can take more AP courses, and have a definite math class my senior year, however the public school has more extra curricular activities, which school would look better to college admissions officers, or would it really matter?</p>
<p>If you do the best you can in the public school, the college isn't going to be like "oh well there's this prep school in her area where she could've gone, but didn't, that's lame"</p>
<p>Likewise, if you show that you're dedicated to some extracurriculars at the new prep school, then they will see that. Plus, you can found clubs and teams if you want to at a new school, if you want to. So really, pick the one that you're more interested in (if you're strong in academics, I'd go with the prep school, because in the first few years of any school like that, it's only going to be the people who really want to be there)</p>
<p>well it depends which city we'r talking about here but in most cases i would say go with the prep school....sad but true, but there are a disproportionate number of people at top colleges who went to private school.</p>
<p>oh! note on extracurriculars at new small college prep schools</p>
<p>I go to this charter school with a total student body of about 500 students, that opened in 1999. I've been on varsity track since my freshman year. At most other schools, I'd be JV. At my school, I was named a jumping captain (ok, compared to other white girls I am a pretty good horizontal jumper). My point is, at small schools, people rarely get cut from sports, especially in their early years. You can join a sports team for fun, and be on varsity, even if you've never played it before in your life. And that will look pretty good on applications, probably.</p>
<p>thanks for all the advice</p>