<p>I thought it might be interesting to compile a list of schools from which our high school teachers earned their undergraduate and/or graduate degrees.</p>
<p>Format:</p>
<p>subject:
college:
well-liked:</p>
<p>Also, at the end of your post please feel free to add a brief statement as to the number/percentage of students from your school which attend HYPSM, Caltech, lower Ivies, top LACs, and et cetera each year. I am curious to see whether the caliber of our teachers' schools is reflected in their teaching (hence, the "well-liked" section) or in the caliber of the schools their pupils then go on to attend.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<p>subject: AP Bio
college: Princeton (grad)
well-liked: 50-50 split among those who love her classes and those who hate them</p>
<p>AP USI
Rutgers University
yes (!!!) but is generally regarded as a poor teacher</p>
<p>AP USII, AP Euro
Lafayette College (undergrad), Brown University (grad)
yes; dry personality, but excellent teacher</p>
<p>AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC, AP CompSci
Princeton University
yes!</p>
<p>AP Lit I
Montclair State University
yes! </p>
<p>My high school has sent between 1 and 5 students to CC top schools each year.</p>
<p>Subject: MYP Chemistry, IB HL Chemistry
College: BS, George Mason, MS, Georgetown
Well-Liked: Definitely.</p>
<p>Subject: IB math HL 2, IB math SL 2
College: BS in Biology, VMI, MS, GMU
Well-Liked: Best and Most popular teacher in the school.</p>
<p>At my school, most got their degree(s) from EMU (Eastern Michigan), some got their degree from MSU, just a couple from U of M.</p>
<p>subject: English I (haha sorry… freshman here!)
master: u chicago
doctorate: he’s leaving so he could study russian lit at berkley
well-liked: most people at least like his class.</p>
<p>I’ve only heard of about 5 teachers in my school.
3 from SUNYs- Oneonta, Geneseo, and idk the 3rd
1 Fordham
1 who did undergrad CUNY Queens College and doctorate at SUNY Stony brook
1 other doctorate from stony brook (english… i find that odd)</p>
<p>I probably should’ve mentioned that I’m not a format stickler; feel free to respond in an abbreviated form, as well, or only for a single teacher. </p>
<p>(Thanks to those who have posted so far!)</p>
<p>PhD’s from UChicago, Stanford, Princeton and some place in Germany. Earlier ones include PhD’s from UCLA, Caltech and another 2 from Princeton (so strange).</p>
<p>All of my teachers in high school have attended University of Illinois, Illinois Wesleyan, or Illinois State University I believe.</p>
<p>I can only think of a couple: PhDs from UPenn and some place in Ireland and masters degrees from U of Chicago and U of Virginia.</p>
<p>Subject: A.P U.S History
College: Stonehill, University of New Hampshire, I think
Well-Liked: He’s quirky, but he’s my absolute favorite teacher. I’ve learned so much in his class, and in terms of the class, the average on the AP exam is higher than the national average.</p>
<p>Subject: Physics Honors
College: Harvard (still don’t know why she didn’t take the six-figure starting sallary at CERN to teach us miserable kids :-)).
Well-liked: People like her when she talks about stuff other than the course work (T.V Shows, black holes, Harry Potter, the fourth dimension, etc.). You can ask her anything, and she’ll have some deep explanation. But as a teacher, she tends to be really dry. She hasn’t exactly sparked my interest in Physics. </p>
<p>Subject: Pre-Calculus
Colleges: BS at Umass Boston, grad degree at WPI
Well-Liked: No.</p>
<p>School Yield: There’s always one kid who gets into a bunch of ivies. A fair share get into top, or well-known schools. A lot end up at the state schools. We really cover all ends of the spectrum.</p>
<p>My AP World History teacher had degrees in WH and Economics from Georgetown. </p>
<p>Biology teacher graduate from Harvard…</p>
<p>That’s all I can think of right now. :D</p>
<p>One undergrad from Duke; none of them has a grad degree; 1 from Top Public School; everyone else from 4th tier private or public school.</p>
<p>subject: honors anthropology
college: University of Michigan (the best in the country for anthro)
well-liked: She basically has her own cult, consisting of anyone who has ever taken her classes. If you have taken one of her classes, you will take more.</p>
<p>subject: AP Biology
college: not sure, but in Michigan
well-liked: Everyone loves her but simultaneously everyone hates her</p>
<p>subject: Intro to Psychology
college: University of Michigan
well-liked: kind of</p>
<p>subject: Symphony Orchestra
college: University of Kentucky undergrad, Eastman (Rochester) grad
well-liked: See description for my anthro teacher.</p>
<p>subject: Honors Humanities
college: Like, 5, and I don’t know any of them
well-liked: Definitely, although it is widely acknowledged she’s a little crazy (which makes people love her more)</p>
<p>subject: AP Calc BC
college: University of Michigan
well-liked: Yeah, pretty well-liked.</p>
<p>School yield: While we usually have a few kids who get accepted to Ivies and other top colleges, most who do go to in-state schools anyway. Most don’t even try.</p>
<p>Subj: Organic Chem / Physical Chem
Undergrad: Jesus College, Oxford
PhD: Jesus College, Oxford
Rep: An OK teacher… He is somewhat crazy though.</p>
<p>Subj: Further Physics
Undergrad: Edinbrugh University
PhD: Caltech
Rep: Has a reputation for separating the wheat from the chaffe. Those who are have talent at physics love him, those who aren’t amazingly intellegent but study hard to get good grades hate him. </p>
<p>Subj: Further Pure Math
Undergrad: Trinity College, Cambridge
Reputation: An absolute hero, one of the most liked teachers in the school.</p>
<p>Subj: Further Applied Math
Undergrad: Clare College, Cambridge
Reputation: Not that great… I spend most of my time correcting him and there’s always an easier way to do everything he tells us.</p>
<p>Subj: Music (Two teachers)
Undergrad 1: King’s College, Cambridge
Undergrad 2: Royal Academy of Music
Rep: Teacher 1 > Teacher 2</p>
<p>2 Harvard (both science teachers - geniuses I tell you, but ironically horrible at communicating).
1 William and Mary
1 Rutgers
1 University of Virginia
1 Penn State
1 US Naval Academy
1 NYU </p>
<p>A few graduated from foreign universities.</p>
<p>subject: AP Physics C
college: Ohio University
well-liked: Yes</p>
<p>subject: AP Chemistry
college: Washington University in St Louis (was debating between it and Uof Mich)
well-liked: One of the most beloved teachers</p>
<p>subject: AP Art History
college: Northwestern (Her father went to MIT!)
well-liked: Adored, considered to be one of the nicest and most organized</p>
<p>subject: APUSH
college: Ohio University
well-liked: Pretty well liked. More liked than disliked</p>
<p>subject: AP English Lit
college: U Minnesota
well-liked: More liked than disliked, but that’s on account of her antics</p>
<p>subject: Pre-Calc, AP Calc
college: UCincinnati
well-liked: very well liked by her AP students, more liked than disliked by her Pre-Cal students</p>
<p>AP US History
JD, Columbia Law School; MA, History - Columbia University</p>
<p>Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
BA, Princeton, Phd, Princeton</p>
<p>AP Environmental Science
BA, Michigan, Phd, Stanford</p>
<p>Choir
Phd, NYU</p>
<p>AP Literature
BA, Barnard MA, UChicago</p>
<p>AP Spanish
MA University de Buenos Aires</p>
<p>AP Government: Hofstra University (BA/MA)
-Awful individual and even worse teacher.
-If I failed the exam, it will only be because I saw his face the morning of.</p>
<p>AP Spanish: St. Johns University (BA/MA)
-Yet another instructor incapable of teaching. We have far too many of those.
-I learned far more about how to evade flying spittle than conjugating verbs.</p>
<p>AP Literature: Oxford University (MA)
-The best teacher I’ve ever had; she wrote my college recommendations and changed my life.
-An excellent teacher who simply liked to give too much work. However, her literary analyses were quite interesting to lsiten to.</p>
<p>AP Art History: William and Hobart College (BA) & Hofstra University (MA)
-For a freshman teacher, she did an awesome job. Even if she did have a dreadful tendency to misspell.
-She got stuck with a bad class. If she didn’t have a class full of stoned seniors, she might have gotten passing grades out of her students.
*
AP Calculus AB*: Hofstra University (BA/MA)
-Nice guy who put me next to the window, thus ensuring that I would not learn anything throughout the whole year.
-He put forth a valiant but ultimately futile effort to prep students for the exam.</p>
<p>AP Biology: Brooklyn University (BA/MA)
-A poor Biology teacher but excellent AP Environmental teacher.
-Did a very bad job of prepping students for the exam.
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Physical Education*: Stony Brook University (BA; not sure if he required a MA :p)
-He lets me skip class. I have nothing bad to say about him.</p>
<p>It’s odd, I just realized I’m not entirely sure where my teachers went to school. And I’ve been here for 4 years already, what the heck?</p>