<p>What's so good about The Harker School (San Jose, CA)?
Several of my classmates have been transferring there recently. My public school is ultra competitive and we're the best in the Bay Area, so I was wondering why they would want to.</p>
<p>I’ve just heard that it’s a really prestigious private school on the west coast. I met someone who goes there and it seems pretty intense. From what I hear many of the students matriculate to top universities but beyond that I don’t know any other information.</p>
<p>A friend who has two kids in the school describes it as highly competitive academically with a big number of Asian students. Stronger in math and sciences, and the college matriculation is impressive.</p>
<p>If you are already in a highly rated public HS, there’s only marginal benefit to attending Harker. I know several people whose children attend Harker and their goal is having their kids attend a top 10 college and money is no object. I’d rather save the money for college.</p>
<p>Is it that great? There college matriculation was impressive, but for many (60%) they didn’t go anywhere. All the people I know that went there weren’t very competitive in my HS.</p>
<p>I go there. It is highly prestigious, 8th graders in pre calc ect. Many people’s goals are to get to a top notch university. pretty much all asian and indian half and half ish if you care with like 20 others. most class’s are ~150 kids.</p>
<p>to go, yes money can’t be an object. i’m a twin so both my sister and i go there and IMO the prices are ridiculous. 50k/child highschool, 40k/child middle school, 30k/child elementary school, and they still charge like 1k/year lunch, 500+/year laptops ect. tons of oppurtunities too:). and they don’t offer discounts for second kids ect unless you work their big discount.</p>
<p>we had triplets who went so they were paying $150k/year+ for just school. however their are kids their with families in the tens, hundreds of millions a few billions so yes for most money is no object. their are also many mid-class families that most of salary goes there for all the opportunities.</p>