<p>not just private schools, of course.
which school is the very very best??
and please tell me the reasons! thanks!</p>
<p>I admit, I'm being biased - because this is/was my high school. But I say Hayfield Secondary - we completely kicked TC Williams' butts in Remember the Titans.</p>
<p>But literally speaking, I wouldn't know. My friend goes to some ritzy school in DC that ambassador's, senators, and "important" people's children go to. I can't remember the name though.</p>
<p>please nobody say Exeter, St. Pauls, Deerfield, or Choate. So sick of that debate.</p>
<p>hey you forgot andover!!! haha
of course, it would be in a way endless because each school has its own unique qualities. any public schools, then?</p>
<p>Health Careers! Go Phoenices!</p>
<p>Definitely Health Careers High School is the best!! Exemplary 50 years running and blue-ribbon!! More than 50 percent get National Merit. And most of the top ten percent get into an ivy.</p>
<p>Townsend Harris High School in Queens, New York</p>
<p>I'm serious</p>
<p>It's HUNTER man!</p>
<p>I'd say that TJHSST (Thomas Jefferson) in Fairfax County, VA ranks among the best, with consistently the most NMSQT Semifinalists and many USAMO qualifiers.</p>
<p>And also, I've heard that Hayfield is really ghetto, or at least as ghetto as the second richest county in the nation can get. Is this true? I go to J.W. Robinson Secondary, by the way.</p>
<p>Ew, Hunter. Hunter has no windows. :(</p>
<p>Stuyvesant is where all the action (and all the fresh air) is at.</p>
<p>Your question "which high school is the best" generates a different (but related) question.</p>
<p>Does anyone know, to what degree, colleges/universities factor in "which high school" a student graduates from?</p>
<p>On some of the applications, it asks if the high school is public, private, religious, etc. Also, each high school has its own unique collegeboard.com unique identifier. There must be some statistic that is monitored and tracked on the difficulty level of different schools. </p>
<p>I have to wonder how much it comes into play?</p>
<p>Just for discussion sake, assume two identical students (which I realize is impossible) but assume two students whose numbers are identical on the numeric values (SAT scores, ACT scores, SAT II scores, GPA weighted, GPA unweigted, etc.). </p>
<p>Does one student have a stronger position if he/she went to a school with a more rigorous program, one with more students in a competitive standing (greater % of students taking AP and Honors classes, greater % with over 4.0 weighted GPA, etc. etc.)</p>
<p>I don't mean to introduce factors into this thread, and into the website, that are beyond the control of most students. (i.e., most students now applying, really had no say in which school that they attended, and I therefore do not wish to make them think that they might be at a disadvantage - if they attended a school that was less rigorous. </p>
<p>However, it does make me wonder how much, if any, that colleges consider "which high school" that a student attended.</p>
<p>thanks for any thoughts.</p>
<p>I'm guessing it would serve as a tie-breaker between two otherwise identical applicants, but like you said, this is virtually impossible. </p>
<p>Also, if one high school is significantly more competitive than another, then the numerical twin from the less competitive school would have a higher class rank (an important factor in admissions for many colleges), so he wouldn't really be disadvantaged.</p>
<p>Gah, I'm so jealous of you SA health careers people. I'm one district over ;)</p>
<p>Yeah, so we're the best high school in the state of Texas, which I know because it's blasted over the intercom several times a day.</p>
<p>before this topic get's OFF topic (I BET it will)...I'll go ahead and reply</p>
<p>Jefferson County IB School is the best</p>
<p>for the best highschool in southern california, it's definitely san marino high!!</p>
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<p>if you think Hayfield is Ghetto, then you've obviously never been to a real ghetto school.
Hayfields great, in my opinion.</p>
<p>"Yeah, so we're the best high school in the state of Texas, which I know because it's blasted over the intercom several times a day."</p>
<p>;) HCHS is better ^_^ lol</p>
<p>Not. Mine.</p>
<p>Troy and Whitney</p>
<p>Hunter has no windows?!! O_O scary...
...no wonder people from HUNTER transfer to STUY :D</p>