<p>My school has around 3000 students. The students are pretty well-rounded, which is nice. There is a huge focus on academics and/or sports, and if you aren't good at one of those, the school doesn't care about you. Most people do drugs. The teachers are generally really good. Our English department is amazing. Our math/science department is, to say the least, lacking.</p>
<p>Private, Roman Catholic, all-boys college preparatory school.</p>
<p>Whatever the hell that means.</p>
<p>Work hard. Party harder. That is our motto.</p>
<p>Excellent selective public with absolutely no school spirit.</p>
<p>I adore it academically, but socially it leaves some things to be desired.</p>
<p>public competitive magnet</p>
<p>My school's a smallish, half-decent public school... we pass standardized tests, and we're ranked in the top 15 or so publics in the state (not saying much, I don't think). Our average ACT score is 22, and only 2 APs offered.. so we're nothing great, but every year a couple kids break the mold and go to top schools. For everyone else, it's off to Kent State/Wright State/Youngstown State...</p>
<p>Private, offbeat. Only 40 students in the entire school. Students range from druggies to prodigies (the violinist of a popular rock band goes here, as does a 12-year old kid in grade 11). People are really passionate about their interests.</p>
<p>There are no sports or honours/AP classes offered, but the classes are extremely rigorous, and we have a really good classics program. Usually one or two graduates a year get into the Ivies, which probably gives us the highest rate in the province. The average SAT score is above 2200, but not all students take it.</p>
<p>Public, suburban school.</p>
<p>It opened up two years ago and this year it has its first graduating class (I'm a junior). </p>
<p>So...we're not really competitive at all so far.</p>
<p>An all around crappy school, were only allowed to take 1 AP a year.
Our sports teams just plain out suck and everyones ghetto.</p>
<p>All-boys Catholic school, around 1200 kids, small amount of APs but plenty of honors, care more about our uniforms than the constant partying everyone does, sports are iffy(some are perennial contenders for state while others are lucky to have a winning record)</p>
<p>A mid-sized, semi-competitive public school. All the other schools in my district are very competitive in both academics and athletics but my school is the least of those. A few miles away from TJHSST, so that kinda explains it. Our district wins a lot of state champs for football and swimming.</p>
<p>Our school has about 1500 students this year. We about 10 AP classes, and our school is very academically talented. But not really. We give the illusion that we do by having like, 40 4.0 GPA's. But that's because teachers hand out A's in our school. Only the kids in AP classes really get A-'s, which knocks us out of the the top standing for the grades. Bleh.</p>
<p>But we really do have some brilliant minds. We have a good sports program, and a phenomenal music program. Our band teacher is supposedly world famous. Confused me why he teaches high school band.</p>
<p>public selective teeny ~170 graduating class. I think like 97+% of kiddies go to four year unis; they just happen to be very good ones lol. yeah...</p>
<p>I go to a regular-sized public high school.
We're not too good at some sports (i think we haven't won a football game since homecoming '06), but are pretty tight in others (Track and Field team always puts out at least 5 all-state athletes). We also have a pretty good band.
What I like is how diverse we all, a lot of nationalities are represented here.
What sucks is that the school is REALLY underfunded by the education department, so most of our campus hasn't been renovated by the state since '94. Any construction on the school is done by students and teachers! I think it's pretty cool when you work alongside your APUSH teacher while painting the Gym on a Saturday morning.</p>
<p>suburban (altho only 5 minute drive (in times of traffic) to the city) public school. about 300 kids in my grade. have sent kids to all ivies i think. no MIT however. lots of AP's, honors, etc. crappy GC's.
it's actually a very good share of diversity. you get almost every kinds of people here.</p>
<p>our varsity football team SUCKS BIG TIME. i'm surprised they even got one touchdown in a single season</p>
<p>Wow, three pages. i wasn't really paying too much attention to this thread i started. Lol</p>
<p>Ya, I'm not too big a fan of my school.</p>
<p>Someone in my Honors 10 English, I repeat HONORS, asked what "bias" means yesterday.</p>
<p>Large Public school. Very diverse. Lots of SPIRIT!!! :)</p>
<p>all girls public academically selective high school
amazing academics... last year we had like 50% of people get a UAI over 99 which basically means they are better then or equal to 99% of people in our state.... normally ranked in the top 5 schools....
but social life TOTALLY sucks...</p>
<p>I go to a tiny public high school; not the smallest in the world, but there are less than 200 students in my graduating class. We have a big drug problem and the students here are either ridiculously smart honors kids athletes Mr./Miss Perfect types or absolute slackers, with very few who fall in between. (I'm a ridiculously smart honors kid, but I'm usually overlooked for the Beth Coopers.) We've sent one kid to Ivy in the past eight years, and somewhere between 60% and 80% of every class goes to the local community college. Eck.</p>
<p>What motivates me? Knowledge. I love to learn. I thirst, desire education. That motivation wasn't there my freshman year -- which explains distressingly mediocre grades -- but I can't imagine a world without learning. I want to go to a college that understands this about me.</p>
<p>huge public high school, though not very academically-oriented.</p>
<p>Very small public school. Almost everyone plays at least one sport, many play two. Academics not great, six APs.</p>