<p>Our high school does okay. From my older son’s class Val got into Yale hooked and Harvard unhooked. Sal into Wharton. No. 3 is at Caltech (unhooked) No. 4 is at Princeton also unhooked. There are other kids at Ivy’s from that class too, though I can’t remember them all - though I know no. 25 is at Brown. It’s not a magnet school. It’s way, way down the Newsweek list. I don’t think it made the USNWR list of high schools at all. Its average SAT scores are not much above US averages. But the top 10% of the class does very well.</p>
<p>From what I’ve seen of the classes - most of those for the top performing students are excellent. They are at least as good as any I had in prep school with the caveat that they don’t write enough papers and classes are larger than I would like.</p>
<p>Our school is large and there are huge differences between the top 10 and the bottom 10%. They do rank and they do weight grades.</p>