<p>Well, all girls school has definitely provided me with interesting experiences. It’s in the city, 300 girls, and highest ACT average in the state. Extremely competitive. Sleep deprivation is a state of being. Definitely a love/hate relationship, but the academics are beyond amazing.</p>
<p>My school is a mid-sized public school with about 640 people or so. Things spread very quickly. Everyone knows your business. It is maybe 75-80% white and the average income is probably $70,000 +. It is located in central Jersey and it’s quite boring. We do have many AP courses ( US History, Euro, US Gov’t and Politics, Stats, Calc AB/BC, Biology, Chemistry, Spanish Literature, English Lang. and Lit., Computer Science, Environmental Science, Music Theory, and Studio Art). Weighted GPA counts; only a few kids are competitive. My school does not send many to Ivies and top tiers. We get the yearly Cornell acceptance, some great well-known LACs, and then avg. unis. We have not had someone attend Oxford since the 80s and Harvard since the early 60s. Last year was great because we had 1 girl end up at Columbia (rejected from Harvard), one at Princeton, and one at Vanderbilt. I do feel quite fortunate with the opportunities. There are many ECs, but more than anything, the school cares about its XC & Track teams, football team, and marching band. People who achieve remarkable things in academics are barely paid attention to or recognized (many teachers have pointed this out as well). If you were interested in starting a club they would hear you out, but it gets complicated when looking for an advisor, seeing as many teachers have prior commitments and participate in ECs that have to do with their passions.
One thing I despise about my school is this “honors bubble.” I take every rigorous course that I possibly can and it gets extremely annoying to be with the same group of people all day. Because they take honors classes, many of my peers are unbelievably arrogant and snobby. They tend to stick with each other, mocking others and picking out their flaws, seemingly unaware that they have flaws as well. I have got 2 more years left with them, so I’ll deal. It’s not really cliquey, but I notice people of certain races sticking together mostly. The teachers are very caring and many of them know what they are doing (while some should not be teaching). I think I have provided way too much info, but I am trying to stop thinking about M10. Anyways that is my HS for you all!</p>
<p>@ladidadidaifogettherest I sooo get what you mean about the “honors bubble”, I thought that I was the only one that felt that way. I’ve pretty much gotten over it, but when people start talking about how “regular” kids are stupid I get really angry.</p>
<p>Medium-large, relatively underperforming, good opportunities to excel, but no one utilizes them.
Lots of grade-inflation. >1/2 matriculates to state university and/or CC. 1/4 go to nearby state university.</p>
<p>I go to a suburban high school with about 1000 students in a middle/upper class neighborhood. It’s an above average school with a decent # of AP courses and generally good teachers. My graduating class in probably the best class to ever pass through our high school, which probably screwed me (a 3.7 at my school would be top 10-15% any other year, but it’s only enough to round out the top 25% this year, and our average SAT score is 1750ish, which is weighed down by the kids in the bottom trying to get into a local state school). We usually send most of the top 30% to either Pitt or Penn State, with the kids at the top going to schools like CMU or Cornell.</p>
<p>Yeah- and like I said before, my school is incredibly diverse and wealthy- we offer every AP course and are ranked top 10 in the state. Most students in the top 15% attend very prestigious universities just because of how high the school’s standards are.</p>
<p>~1800 students
-Mostly amazing teachers.
-Diverse. Lots of Russians, Ukrainians, Indians, other Asians
-Severe grade inflation
-Not competitive at all
-New campus, about 7 years old?
-Suburban area, no gangs or anything like that
-Good sense of community; people generally branch out to different groups and respect each other</p>
<p>Mine’s pretty big, 'bout 3800 students. Completely outdoors, like a college. In southern California. Best school in the district, but there’s only 3 high schools in the district. #180-something in California. Surrounded by huge houses with wealthy people. Mostly white, then hispanic, then asian. Close to Native American reservation. Hmm, let’s see. It has IB. Ummmm, I don’t know what else to say.</p>
<p>I go to a small (400 student) all-girls catholic high school, which is pretty competitive. It’s in a suburban area on a hill, nice view, quaint campus. Not very diverse, since it’s mostly caucasian and asian. I can’t wait to go to a co-ed college though. I will say one good thing about my school is that it encourages us to be more confident and independent as women. Plus, there isn’t many conflicts between us or bullying at my school, so it’s nice. </p>
<p>My schools has around 3000+ students. Since it’s in Southern California, we have a large Hispanic population (~40% or so). I’d say that the student body is pretty mixed and diverse, and there’s a gap between the studious AP kids who are super cutthroat, and the rest who don’t care to go to college. Teachers are amazing (especially if they teach AP classes), or at least the ones I’ve had. Super liberal but I guess that comes with the geographic location. Major over crowding issues and almost every class has between 30 and 40 students. Oh, and I forgot to mention a very tight-knit Mormon clan</p>
<p>I go to a fairly big (by Scottish standards) public “secondary school” of about 850 students. Which over here includes 7th and 8th grade (Secondary 1 and Secondary 2). Our school is overwhelmingly white (over 90%), we have (including me) about 5 black students and some people from Poland and the Philippines. Because we are in the oil capital of Europe, we only have 1% of students on free school meals and the income range is anywhere between £20k to £200k (i.e. My friend’s dad)</p>
<p>Since mandatory education stops at S4(10th grade) most people leave to either get a job (as plumbers, carpenters etc.) or continue in what we call a “Further Education College” which are technically similar to Community Colleges or Technical Schools. The people who stay on at school typically try and aim for university - mostly within Scotland. </p>
<p>We study National 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers, all of them are assessed externally via an exam. We don’t have GPAs because what you get in your exam is your qualification. National 5s are roughly equivalent to basic high school level, Highers are equivalent to less intense (but still very intense!) APs and Advanced Highers are much more difficult than normal APs. You take Highers in 11th grade or 12th grade( if you didn’t do well at National 5) and Advanced Highers in 12th Grade. Universities here base admissions off of just Highers while some in England will ask you to get certain grades at Advanced Higher. Not a lot of people do well academically but the few that do (me and my friends) are very competitive with each other and only 3 people in my year are applying to American and Canadian universities</p>
<p>Additionally, one of our teachers was caught with a library of Child Pornography last summer. </p>
<p>Well, I hope I have given you a snapshot of my school here in Scotland (sorry if I’ve rambled!)</p>
<p>I go to a private school in NJ that’s pretty tiny - like 550ish students in PreK-12. My graduating class is like 40 people. Most people have pretty high GPAs (a large portion of students get straight A’s), and good SAT scores. It’s kind of competitive - people don’t compete with each other outright, but everyone wants to be the best. So I guess the competition is kind of festering somewhere, unnoticed 
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<p>I go to a private religious girls’ school in NYC with about 200 girls, ~50 per grade (mine has 54). The academics are excellent (we’re privately accredited so that we can avoid the Regents curriculum and we have many diverse electives) but we have huge religious studies requirements (about 1/3-1/2 of the week’s credit hours) which limit the number we can take per year. Electives are offered on a case-by-case basis, based on student voting- if enough students (~10) want to take fashion design (as occurred this year) they will hire a teacher and it will be given the next year. The problem is that there are only three elective slots on the schedule, each of them five credit hours, so that you can only take the number of electives that can fit into those three sets of five credit hours. There are a decent number of APs, but only the number people vote to have.
EVERYONE is white. We had one Asian girl a few years ago and we were like yeah, we’re diverse now! Then she graduated and oh well. It’s also private and pretty expensive, so people tend to be wealthy- however, they do have people (like me) on academic scholarships.
There are a lot of very intelligent girls (we’ve had a Harvard acceptance a year for the past couple of years) but many people aim more for scholarships than for prestige (we have a high acceptance rate to the CUNY honors programs).
I tend to be friendly more with the smart kids but the school’s small enough that there isn’t really a lot of competition- everyone’s pretty much friends with everyone else. There’s a kind of an unspoken competition among the smarter kids to do well, and the school experience is pretty intense as the hours are very long, but nobody would look down on anybody for not doing well. </p>
<p>My school is kinda isolated, only HS in my community, about 1300-1400 students. To be in the top 10% you need to have a 3.8 GPA, I’m ranked #49 out of 388 students with a 3.75 GPA which puts me at about the top 12-13% so I can be in the top 10% if I can get to about a 3.8 which I should be able to manage as my GPA has gone from 3.38 after 1st Semester Freshman year, to 3.57 after 2nd Semester Freshman year to a current 3.75 after 1st Semester of Sophomore year (I pulled a 4.17 1st Semester Sophomore Year) So my GPA should continue to increase if I can keep this up.</p>
<p>But anyhow, my school is about 65% white 30% Mexican and 5% every other race.
Some kids smoke pot, but they are quiet about it, there are almost never any fights or gangs going on, but it can also be as boring as hell at times because nothing goes on. Academically we have like 12 AP Classes, but we only offer Spanish as a foreign language option which kind of sucks. Our school has some very good teachers I feel though.</p>
<p>1)AP Calculus (AB)
2)AP Statistics
3)AP European History
4)AP US History
5)AP Government
6)AP Art History
7)AP Biology
8)AP Chemistry
9)AP Environmental Science
10)AP English Comp
11)AP English Lit
12)AP Spanish</p>
<p>I’m from a town in Central California, we’re about an hour east of San Francisco. My town is a poor town, at-least compared to other cities around us. My school represents that’s heavily, 83% of the student body is under the poverty line and 77% of the school is Hispanic, 7% Asian, 2% African American and 12% Caucasian. The student body totals 1682 students. However, I’m not disappointed at all with the school - it’s extremely good, in my opinion. Our teacher-student ratio is 24-1 which is low compared to other school districts around us. We have 14 AP classes to chose from, 2 pre-ap classes. While our college rate is lower than other schools around the nation, I think it is good considering the economic and home life situation of students here - 41% went to a four-year university, 46% went to a community college and 3% went into the military last graduating class. Our district has also been spared the worst budget cuts and no staff members have been laid off which makes us extremely lucky compared to other districts in our area - for example, a school district in my area in a town called Denair has had to lay off a lot of teachers and may be put under state control later this year.</p>
<p>Students are nice too, we have a big sports program but the sport players mix easily with the academic people which is nice. I’m not sporty at all and I’ve never been bullied and I don’t hear much about people being bullied. Our school does however have a big problem with marijuana and drinking but at-least that’s our only problem - which - I think is somewhat manageable. </p>
<p>I go to a public high school in NJ. There’s honestly such a gap in between the “smart/honors/AP” kids v. the rest of the,. The rest of them being kids who cheat, party, smoke weed, etc. Thank god I’m beefing up my schedule next year. We’ere also really ethnically diverse with a 45% minority, almost the majority, with the largest minority group being Asians. I feel that I connect so much better with the nerds rather than everyone else.</p>
<p>Anyways at my school there’s about 1,000 kids. I’d say that the honors kids at my school are somewhat competitive because I have a 3.8 GPA (I think weighted, I’m taking 1 honors class this year) and I’m ranked 80/237 or something like that. </p>
<p>Unless you excel at a language, you can’t take AP classes until Junior year either in science such as Bio or Chem or APUSH, AP Government and Politics, or AP European History. I find this complete garbage when there’s freshmen at other schools taking AP classes. I know there’s two seniors who got accepted to Ivy League schools: Cornell and Harvard. But besides that, people are being accepted to schools ranging from the University of Chicago to Montclair State or CCM (county college). There’s seniors taking strictly AP classes, quality ones, and there’s others filling up in every easy class or study hall available. The gap between the ambitious students v. the students who do not care at all is ginormous. </p>
<p>My school offers 16 out of the 34 AP classes.
-AP US History
-AP Government and Politics
-AP European History
-AP Biology
-AP Chemistry
-AP Physics
-AP Environmental Science
-AP Calculus
-AP Studio Art
-AP Statistics
-AP Italian
-AP French
-AP Spanish
-AP English IV (which I would consider AP English Language)
-AP Music Theory
-AP Computer Science A</p>
<p>I go to a sizable (2200 students) average-ranked public high school on Long Island. It’s 70-80% white, but a very large number of whites are immigrants or first-gen (especially Polish). Solidly middle-class. I like it very much, I moved to the area from another town that was very large, well-off and unhealthily undiverse (80% either Italian or Jewish, 20% other whites, absolutely no immigrants or people of color). Very glad that I moved. Fights don’t happen that often, but when they do, they are FIGHTS). 12 AP’s offered. One or two kids going to an Ivy League each graduating class. Somewhat poorly funded EC’s and an inept central administration are my biggest problems, but I still enjoy it very much. :)</p>
<p>I go to an average sized public high school (~1000 students) in Delaware. The demographics are 44% African American, 46% Caucasian, 4% Asian, 5% Latino. 45% of kids are considered low income. It was on Newsweek’s Top 1000 High Schools list in 2008-2010, and 2012, and is considered to be the best public school in Delaware. My school was the first school in the state to adopt the IB Program, and about 1/4 of the kids are in it. </p>
<p>Beyond the IB kids, there’s a pretty steep dropoff in performance. Because almost all of the top achieving students are in IB, my school only has 9 AP courses, and on average, 5 people take the AP exam in those respective classes - that is, ones not comprised of mostly IB kids. </p>
<p>Grades are fairly competitive (e.g. 4.2w GPA is borderline top 10%), but nothing extreme. Until this year, there was actually a bit of grade deflation because we used the 7 point scale rather than the 10 point scale. </p>
<p>Most of the sports teams at my school are pretty uncompetitive, but the soccer, lacrosse, and field hockey teams are at the top of their respective conferences. The only sports teams people actually care about and get the most attention are basketball and football, and both are mediocre.</p>
<p>In terms of colleges, most people end up at the local CC, Wilmington University, or Del State. The more competitive kids - i.e. honors, AP, and most of the IB kids - end up at the University of Delaware. Only some go to OOS schools, and they’re usually just in border states and not overly prestigious. There are usually about 1-3 Ivy acceptances per year, along with a handful of others at other top universities. </p>
<p>I go to a medium size high school the highest UW GPA is a 3.8, once we found out the class rank it got hella competitive the top 10% are thousandths of a decimal away from each other. All range 3.898-3.820. Damn school won’t do top 10% by W GPA… My 4.3 would smash these simpletons.</p>
<p>My school’s fairly average sized, at ~1300 students. My school isn’t too diverse; it’s about 91% white, 6% latino, 2% black, and 1% asian.</p>
<p>We have most APs, although obviously not enough to make me happy (lol). We’re missing: both of the AP economics, all AP languages with the exception of AP Spanish, AP Chemistry, AP Language, AP Physics 1&2, AP Physics E&M, AP World, AP Comparative Govt, AP Human, and a few more that I can’t remember atm. We’re not going to get classes for the new AP curricula that are soon to appear o_O (i.e. AP Research & Seminar. Didn’t even realize these existed until today), but which schools are?</p>
<p>It’s not a super competitive school. There are a handful of kids who are aiming for Ivies, but that isn’t saying much given that they’re way less qualified than I am, objectively speaking, which actually is saying something. (cough cough I’m not qualified at all cough cough ahem). Most kids in the school either go to the nearby community college or the local religion-based uni post-graduation. Almost everyone has a 4.0 average, unweighted. Our school doesn’t weigh afak.</p>