What do you consider a "large" high school?

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<p>Accomplishments like student gov or NHS president, editor-in-chief, top 10 on the honor roll, or being a member of a sports team with limited spots like basketball or baseball are of course much harder to achieve at large high schools. There's much less competition to become editor-in-chief if theres only 15 kids working on the staff. </p>

<p>I'm sure colleges realize this, but just what do they consider a large high school? 400 kids? 500 kids? 600 kids? When do you think adcoms start to sit back and say, "wow, this kid is special, he managed to become president of this huge ___ kid class"?</p>

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<p>I don't know exactly what a large school would be, but 400-600 definitely isn't. I'm thinking atleast 2,500+.</p>

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<p>3000+ maybe high 2000s
my school has about 3400 people</p>

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<p>large is 3000+, small is under 1000</p>

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<p>large is 3000+, but go to Los Angeles Unified, and you'll see many high schools with 4000-5000 kids. </p>

<p>besides increased competition in terms of numbers, there's usually an increase in QUALITY of competition. for example, athletic teams at large high schools feature athletes that might get recruited, or many team members are those who are devoted to athletics and not necessarily school. you'll be competing against those people for spots.</p>

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<p>I was talking about per class. Like class rank 1/500. So it seems like many of you think around 700 kids per grade?</p>

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<p>i've got 800+ in my class... much too big. i still don't know everyone! 500 would be nice...</p>

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<p>I go to a small suburban school with a senior class of 233. We consider the schools around us to be big if they have more than 600 kids. I think so anyway...</p>

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<p>i used to go to a school w/ 360-ish kids a grade but we all knew eachother..we were close i was talking to my new friend the other day saying that my school may have that many kids in a grade but i knew all of them and i spoke to more then half of them at least 1 time a week...and then also they were my friends... and i speek to more then half of them still</p>

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<p>My class ended up being just under 700. We were a very good size school.</p>

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<p>we only have about 230 total</p>

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<p>My class started out w/1,000 and steadily dropped to about 700. Actually, we're not even the largest school in this area. We're a (relatively) medium sized school of 4,000.</p>