<p>Millburn High School, Princeton High School, and Ridgewood High School are all NJ public schools. Let's see where they rank on the New Jersey Monthly Top 75 Public High Schools:</p>
<p>Millburn: #14
Ridgewood: #17
Princeton: #40</p>
<p>Clearly, there's more than one way to rate a school.</p>
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<p>Ouch. I did not mean to endorse the list in any way, it just happened I knew what the OP asked about (or it seemsd I knew). I also don't like the Mathews rankings (just discussed them again somewhere: probably, Newsweek published a fresh list, so they are being discussed again).</p>
<p>Well, just to add to the collection: the most (ahem... strange?) criterion I've ever seen was used by Worth magazine, it rated the schools by the acceptances to HYP only. In comparison, the WSJ list makes more sense... :)</p>
<p>Re: post #22, yes, I was sure you were just sharing an interesting link without necessarily endorsing it, and I appreciate that. I agree with you that a broader rather than narrower group of "top" colleges to gauge college placement rates makes for a better list (on THAT criterion) of "top" high schools.</p>
<p>What would everyone's list include? How would any of you rank a top HS, if at all?</p>
<p>My school should be included by those statistics.
What was said about Hunter College is really true. My mom went there for Junior High and then switched to Bronx High School of Science.</p>
<p>What's next? "US News and World Report: The Top U.S. Pre-Schools and Kindergarten Programs."</p>
<p>hey, i would just like to note that i attend lakeside, and we don't have sat prep or ap classes, we don't rank or calculate gpa, and just recieved 40 million dollars from bill gates so that we can have 1/3 of our students on financial aid. AND we manage to get a good ranking on that list.</p>
<p>Tlaktan.....thanks for the laugh!!:D</p>
<p>Don't laugh too long, Soozie. As you must already know, admissions for preschools can be "serious" business -- with an eye toward eventual college placement.</p>
<p>When my D was in preschool & we were shopping for K-8 private schools, the prospective parents at one school were divided into Primary or K-3 level, & intermediate -- grade 4+. For the <em>Primary</em> group, the admissions spokesperson rattled off a series of SAT score histories & "college admissions results" for the edification of the potential new families. I found that almost frightening. (And that was 14 yrs ago.) Who knows what was told to the Intermediate group: perhaps <em>grad school</em> admissions results?</p>
<p>Back to the tangent: my D ended up quite by accident going to a preschool where the enrollment was mostly gifted. Everyone in her preschool class is now in prestigious East Coast schools. But as you can see, the admissions may have resulted from the giftedness rather than the preschool. Nevertheless, I know of parents who hunt down such stats & results, & do deliberately seek the "right" or "track" preschools for their children. Too sad.</p>