<p>For me my school is public and the main focus is football. No one else really gets reconition. Just to give an idea of the students. No one in a few years has passed the AP Bio test, let alone got a good score on it. My honors classes are open enrollemnt, regardless of GPA, intelligence, maturity, etc. How about you? I'm curious.</p>
<p>Also, what sparked you to want to work harder to get into a good college? For me it's just watching so many people do so poorly in the realm of careers, and never holding a sustainable job.</p>
<p>Private Jesuit All-Boys School, excellent academics (they'd better be considering the 10s of millions they collect in tuition every year) with a wonderful math/science program, very good humanities department as well.</p>
<p>Moderate focus on sports, and we dominate at all of the boys sports because of the huge applicant pool.</p>
<p>Erm, well, I need a degree (a couple of them actually) if I want to pursue my intended career, although my future college might not fit your standards of "good" very well...</p>
<p>An over-subscribed public middle school with an excellant Math / Science program but a sucky, over-subscribed English program and two elective classes (you have to repeat one, become a T.A. or take a "Leadership" class where you play board games). Oh, and our football team just lost their 23rd math in a row.</p>
<p>I will be attending an over-subscribed public high school with excellent academics, an amazing athletics program (well, better than my middle school) but a super-serious drug problem (it's the worst in the state).</p>
<p>Yippee!</p>
<p>Oh, and I started working harder when I moved to America and realized I might actually try here as it seems easier.</p>
<p>I attend a highly prestigious private institution in which only the most academically driven and socially sophisticated students attend. We work together to create a positive educational atmosphere and to discover the educational and emotional concepts in which we endure.
Over 50% of graduating seniors attend top ten universities, and I will likely be no exception since I am one of the finest students in the institution, and I display a vibe so shining and glorious that is difficult to match by all means.</p>
<p>Wish me luck, my comrades. I shall wander to Stanford, shall I?</p>
<p>I go to a large public high school. We have a decent AP program, and lots of students pass the exams. We have decent athletics and our marching band is the biggest in the area.</p>
<p>Message to Praying4Stanford: ARE YOU SERIOUS??? Please deflate you ego. I sincerely hope that you are joking, otherwise you are an arrogant jerk. You could just say that you go to a prestigious school without bragging about how brilliant you think you are. I hope Stanford rejects you! I wouldn't want someone like you in my school.</p>
<p>yes Praying4Stanford you will wander to Stanford....</p>
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"I will likely be no exception since I am one of the finest students in the institution, and I display a vibe so shining and glorious that is difficult to match by all means"
<p>Oh just chill, Praying4Stanford is pseudoepiclulz status. Don't get mad at he/she/it.</p>
<p>To answer the question, my school's a fairly big, semi-competitive public...it's very divided, on one hand there's quite a bit of intelligent students, and on the other hand a lot of the vice-versa types. Very diverse. </p>
<p>I'm the #1 slacker of life, but recently I'm increasing my academics/etc by .001% each day, so hopefully something works.</p>
<p>My school is a medium-sized (I think? ~1500 students) public school. Decent in some sports, horrible in others. Our... band is really good, from what I hear. Lol.</p>
<p>Competitiveness ranges from 4.0 students to people who don't give a crap about school and are just getting by.</p>
<p>Public, medium-sized, academically-oriented , competitive school, that is good in tennis and CC & track due high Asian population. One of the best public schools for math.</p>
<p>I go to an extremely small private school. I think there are ~ 100 people in the entire high school. We have an excellent volleyball program and have been state champions four out of the last six years. Most of our teams are fairly decent, though football is definitely a weak point. As for academics, I think it's the same as with most schools. There are people with 4.0's dreaming of Yale, and there are people who don't really care.</p>
<p>Was bottom 10 percent state scores when I went in freshman year.
3 people out of a class of 30 passed the AP Bio test... (including me)
I'm the first National Merit Commended in... no-one really knows when before...
Less than ten percent of seniors go on to four year colleges or universities after graduation.
I'm in the first Calculus BC class created in 12 years.
Never sent a kid to an top private school in the recent decade. </p>
<p>Then on the other hand,
I like my school, the kids are nice, there is no dog eat dog competition, the honors/AP teachers care a lot, and the counselors mean well.</p>
<p>A big public located on a...mountain.
Like many int'l public schools, no APs, no IBs, no Honours, nothing.
It's SO MUCH FUN.HAHA. I LOVE MY LIFE</p>
<p>Small secondary school. Although it claims to have excellent foreign language & science departments it has neither. Compared to the other school in the district it actually lacks a lot of things.
Anyhow just one more year.</p>
<p>I'm not sure because I'm still new but it's a medium sized school full of rich kids imo. A lot of the student body is very academically driven but everyone tends to party quite a lot. That's all I have determined so far hah.</p>
<p>I attend a medium-sized public school. We're tenuously good at everything, but not quite solidly good, you know what I mean?</p>
<p>I want to get into a "good" college because I want to be challenged and because their appreciation of academics suits my personality more than schools that emphasize partying and football. Not that I don't like partying/football; I just don't want them to be what my undergrad life revolves around.</p>
<p>Public. continually ranked top 5 in state, but only makes top 100 in nation.</p>
<p>I'd say it's somewhat good, but all around...pretty...crappy. But of course I still love my school <em>cough</em> It's just that I wish I would have gone to another one O_O</p>