<p>Interesting stuff. People always say the school I go to is special for excelling at both academics and athletics. Too bad I'm not really part of that though!</p>
<p>Token, I'm not sure what you were looking for in your original question, as I suspect there are a fairly large number of high schools that are well known to admissions officers at top schools. </p>
<p>Re the new questions, I hadn't heard of Jenks before.
Re the old one, I don't know how many to add, what about
Other schools that always seem to have a number of strong students:
Palo Alto and Gunn (both in Palo Alto), Hunter College HS (NY), Boston Latin,
and maybe Newtrier (Chicago suburbs)?</p>
<p>lol, I was completely joking, tokenadult. My school is very very good and owns Oklahoma in most areas, it comes nowhere near the level of TJ or Stuy or the Cal ones.</p>
<p>I'll put in a plug for BUA (Boston University Academy). It is a private school and rarely makes lists because there are no (zero, really 0) AP classes. But, that's because it is affiliated with BU. Kids take college courses instead. Most start with one or two classes as juniors, and often take two or three as seniors. Some start with college classes as freshman.
Last year, 53% of the senior class were NM Commended or Semi-Finalist.</p>
<p>^^tokenadult</p>
<p>Of your list, I don't know Jenks, and I'm not sure about Milton. The others I know, and they are good, no question. I second frutiaspice's mention of Bronx Science (in the olden days, I knew of it before I knew of Stuyvesant), Flare12345neo's mention of Dalton and Andover, and Aedar's mention of Palo Alto, Gunn, Boston Latin, Hunter College HS, and New Trier. I'd add Sidwell Friends in DC, Groton, the University of Chicago Laboratory School, and Harvard-Westlake. There's probably a good public high school in Pasadena ;). (Omission of a school from my list does not constitute disagreement with the poster who mentioned it, just that I don't know the school.) Fill-in-the-blank Country Day is often good. If you scan the list of schools of the USA Today academic teams and Presidential Scholars, you'll turn up more strong schools--also the ones with multiple USAMO qualifiers.</p>
<p>Illinois Science and Math Academy
Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics
Montgomery Blair HS math/science/CS program (MD)
Richard Montgomery HS IB program (MD)
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Enloe (NC) HS
Indiana Academy for Math, Science and Humanities
Bx Sci (NY)
Brooklyn Tech (NY)
Ward Melville (NY)</p>
<p>We don't mention TJ and Stuy in our house.... ;)</p>
<p>I completely disagree with OSSM. All they have is a good physics program and an okay math program... and a bunch of people who go to OU. There's a reason why fewer good OK students are going to OSSM. (But then I'm very biased against the school hehe)</p>
<p>(And just a reminder for those who are jumping at Jenks being on the list. I was completely joking!)</p>
<p>Does your high school make the top 500? n
Does your high school make the list? n
Do you feel that their is lot of school spirit at your HS? n</p>
<p>^^jenkster, sorry! (<em>Ooops, reminds self to read thread from beginning, and think a little about UserNames</em>) On the other hand, I don't actually know Milton, either.</p>
<p>^^tokenadult, an addition: Hathaway-Brown. Also, it dawned on me a bit late that "Philips Academy Andover" is almost certainly the same place that people in my area (Fly-over Land) think of as "Andover."</p>
<p>lol, no problem. my actual vote for the best is TJ</p>
<p>Brearly is fantastic and actually the whole top tier of the NYC private day schools are all phenomenal. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Roxbury Latin yet, St. Albans and Georgetown Prep in DC are both great.</p>
<p>I heard somewhere that 50% of all Ivy transfer students come from one of the Phillips Academies. That's staggering.</p>
<p>Schools that send the highest percentage of students to Ivies:
<a href="http://www.electricprint.com/edu4/classes/readings/edu-eliteschools.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.electricprint.com/edu4/classes/readings/edu-eliteschools.htm</a>
Of course, those are all privates. I couldn't find the original 100 list, which I'm sure would have publics.</p>
<p>Does your highschool make the top 500? yes
Does your highschool make the list? yes
Do you feel that their is lot of school spirit at your HS? kinda...</p>
<p>Whitney High School, I believe is one of the top high schools in the U.S. </p>
<p>It's actually in my region b/c I live in SoCal.</p>
<p>Bergen County Academies has major magnet schools for science and technology, engineering, math, as well as drama, culinary, communications, and I think hotel management. It's got some amazing kids there.</p>
<p>As for the Ivy Prep League (in the New York area)</p>
<p>Dalton
Fieldston (Ethical Culture School)
Riverdale Country Day School
Horace Mann School
Trinity
Poly Prep (I think)</p>
<p>and a few others.</p>
<p>seems most of the schools listed here are private/need-testing- for- acceptance. but what about all the wonderful publics in the US? the poster who gave the Newsweek top lists is tapping into this, as none of the test-admissable ones are allowed in.</p>