<p>Everyone- what's your school like? Demographically, socially, etc?</p>
<p>As for me, I got an extremely large suburban high school in TX. I'd say ~90% of students' parents income bracket is >150k- it has TONS of immigrants from Asia and South America and is incredibly diverse and extremely accepting</p>
<p>I don't think I've ever been to a school where people are so friendly- but it's insanely competitive with a 4.42 GPA just barely making the top 10%</p>
<p>My school is large (not huge) and very diverse demographically and socially. However, there are a lot of kids from wealthier families, and I’d say we are on the competitive side of the spectrum. We have weird course offerings though (we have AP Art History and AP Music Theory but no AP US/World, I don’t get it).</p>
<p>My school is very small (less than 200 students in the four grades) and not very diverse. I think we have like 1.5 minority students (one is half African American). Everyone there either comes from a family just above the poverty line, either that or the family is in the >100k club. Not really much in between. It’s not a competitive school. No AP classes are offered, but most of the classes are taught at a college level (if the teacher has a masters degree, the course is often dual credit). This leads to quite a few drop outs- students at the bottom of the class often stay an extra year or two, or drop out after sophomore year. The majority of the class goes to either the state flagship or a different state school.</p>
<p>My school is pretty large & very diverse. Alot of the students come from well of families but it’s not too competitive</p>
<p>My school is small, competitive private school with about 400 students. It’s also a boarding school. Most boarders come from Asia. And 40% of the student body are minorities.</p>
<p>My high school that I attended has about 2800 students and Asians are the largest race at around 30% outnumbering Whites–it is very diverse economically and racially.</p>
<p>The average weighted GPA is very high, that is because there are around 24 AP courses (P.S., attend a safety school that accepts all the credits and you can enter as a junior or senior)
Top 10 is very competitive, in fact you pretty much have to abuse the system to be valedictorian or salutatorian–you must load up on APs, get exempt from graduation requirements without the GPA boost, and take honors theater every year.
–I think people are far too focused on their GPAs and SATs than other things which kind of annoys me.
We have a good math team, used to have a good Sci Oly team, but the school in general dislikes math and physics–too many want to go into the medical field and very few want to go into engineering.
Oh and extracurriculars, I’ll say there is too many and people use this up just for their college applications…
The maximum is 10 AP courses during Senior year and likely, if you aren’t good at managing your time you’ll be busy with so much stuff college is likely to seem easy when you get to it.</p>
<p>I’m at the most affluent school in my district, by far. Our school is also crazy competitive; the top 10% of our class all have above a 4.0 GPA. We’re known as “the white school,” 75% of our student body is white.</p>
<p>I go to a top public school in the Bay Area, so it’s pretty competitive, unfortunately 
The “good” thing about that is that we have a pretty good track record of getting people into elite colleges. The bad thing is that there are a bunch of perfect/near-perfect SAT scorers and Siemens semifinalists and whatnot, so it can be hard to stand out among the pack.</p>
<p>People here are really nice! It’s a great school and you definitely don’t get looked down upon for being “too smart” or something silly like that 
And it’s pretty affluent, but no one is a snob about it. The only time you can really tell are when parents decide to pick their kids up in their fancy Bentleys or Porsches, lol.</p>
<p>^I swear we go to the same school. My HS is the same except we’re in Southern California. Most kids go to UCs or top 30, while a dozen or so go to the Ivies. It’s super competitive which sucks at times, but I also get way more opportunities compared to my friends at other schools.</p>
<p>White kids + grade inflation. 4.50GPA is ~10% barrier.</p>
<p>I go to a mid sized HS (~1700 students) in a suburban area, with a university in the back yard. Its mildly competitive overall, depending on what graduating class you’re in. We are very white (~88%) and the largest minority is Hispanics (~4%). Most of the school is lower and lower middle class, but there are some snobby rich kids (and you definitely know who they are) as well as some not snobby rich kids. </p>
<p>We have lots of APs, and admissions into some of them, especially AP U.S. and AP gov, have become selective. At my HS people are pretty unaccepting of “smart kids” (including some teachers), making life difficult in regular classes. Most honors/AP kids take nearly all honors and AP, and we’re like a family, which is great for a relatively shy girl like me!</p>
<p>I go to a small performing arts school in Detroit, MI. There are about 180 students in total, including 50 in my graduating class. </p>
<p>No AP courses are available and competitiveness is a term only used in the arts. The average ACT score of my class is a 17.5, up from the previous year’s 15. Most students attend fine arts colleges, less reputable state universities, HBCUs, or community college. </p>
<p>While we excel in the arts, we are deprived of academics, but the educational system in my city at fault and that’s a different discussion altogether. </p>
<p>98% of students are minority and most are low-income. Most teachers are white. We have really great discussions about race and ethnicity. My classmates excel in the fine and liberal arts, but are not proficient in math and science, but again, my school is not at fault. It’s not too diverse, but I find diversity in other aspects- our talents, religious beliefs, and geographical representation. </p>
<p>Also, my senior class is divided into two classes, obviously one is “smart” and the other is “stupid”. The 25 students in each group have the same academic classes, while arts and electives are composed of all grade levels. I’d estimate my group’s ACT and GPA are 21 and 3.6 while the other would be around 15 and 2.9. So while I have intriguing class discussions, I have no idea about the other senior class.</p>
<p>Rural public school in northern Ohio. 600 students, ~99% white, average income is around $30,000. 60% of students go to a two-year or four-year college after graduation. We had four AP classes in 2012-2013 and seven AP classes in 2013-2014. The school calculates an unweighted GPA and class rank, but no weighted GPA. People are friendly, but not terribly ambitious.</p>
<p>I go to a mainly white public school in Michigan. Supposedly top 15 in the state. There are no fights, and we have some pretty smart kids and some pretty stupid kids. ~1400 students. Sometimes the top students go to Ivies or Stanford, but usually Michigan. We have pretty good teachers, but our AP teachers are really good. They’re all really passionate about their subject, we don’t have some 3rd year teacher who doesn’t know anything about their subject filling in as an AP teacher. So, at most schools AP Psych or English would be considered some of the easier APs, but the teachers we have are really good, so they’re not joke APs. We only have AP English, no comp or lit, and it’s senior only. Our AP Euro teacher is a part time college professor. AP Chem and Calc AB are considered the hardest APs, Environmental Science is probably easiest. We have a lot of graduation requirements, so you can’t really go gung ho on APs until senior year, I have to take a 0 hour to take just one as a junior. Our languages department is probably weakest, history or science is probably strongest. We’re a good school but nothing phenomenal.</p>
<p>Our school is about 1800 students or so, with a lot of Hispanic and white kids. It isn’t a competitive school; almost no kids have ever gone to Ivy’s, at least not that I know of.</p>
<p>We have most AP’s, except Computer Science, Calc BC (rumor is they’re adding it, though), Music Theory, and Micro (though most self study). Most are jokes. APUSH is AP ultimate study hall. Macro-joke. Psych-joke. It’s a shame, but whatever.</p>
<p>There are some gangs and stuff, with a double homicide two years ago connected with a gang. There are fights and stuff. Every so often some kids head goes through the glass window. A teacher (fired) used to come in drunk and stick her head out the window to ‘get some air’.
We have one teacher that is so hard they have to schedule a non-honors class at the same time/different teacher just to catch her multitudes of dropouts. Great class though.</p>
<p>Just like runner019, our smart kids are all pretty close, I guess. They’re my non band friend group.</p>
<p>My school is large, approx 2,000. My school is very diverse. My HS sucks lol. They had to lower the passing grade to 65 to everyone would pass.</p>
<p>I go to a TINY boarding school (less than 100 students) on a working ranch in the middle of a national Forrest. I believe about half the students are international and there’s only 10 or so people that live in state. It’s not very renown but for its size, diversity, and setting, it still kind or blows my mind haha.</p>
<p>I have around 40 students in my class, 150 or so in my high school. We are a very small public school in a rural area. I’d say a sizable number of the students are below or around the poverty line. We have only a few minority students, we are probably about 95% white.</p>
<p>We don’t offer any APs, but you can take them online. The only college classes offered at our school are calculus 1 and english comp/literature (they make up a full year), but there are opportunities to take college classes with students from other local schools through video conferences.</p>
<p>Many, many, many graduates go to a local state school, and I am aware of only a few that have gone to a high ranked university. I’m the first in ten years or so to go to an ivy.</p>
<p>All things considered though, we have a pretty good school. Most of the teachers are excellent and our facilities are very new. We have been hit hard by budget cuts, especially in the science and art/music department. For example, we have one band teacher for grades 5-12 and there is no physics class offered this year in our building. Sports are average, though track does well consistently.</p>
<p>My public school is pretty large in size, but it’s not that good of a school. Only around 650 are expected to graduate this year, and there are so many more seniors.</p>
<p>However, the school does offer a bunch of AP classes, sports, afterschool activities, and much more. It’s definitely worth it if you’re one of the students that try and do well.</p>
<p>I go to a public school of 1800 students in north central NJ. It is located in a suburb of NYC. Although I could be doing better personally, the school is ranked top 30-50 in the state and this definitely gives me an advantage in the college search. We offer a bunch of APs, and I plan on taking two next year myself (Euro and Psych). There are a few kids who go to the “second tier” Ivy Leagues, but a lot go to either Rutgers, Delaware, Monmouth, Maryland, Loyola MD etc. There are five 2013 graduates currently attending Quinnipiac :)</p>
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