<p>Mass and Cali, no doubt.</p>
<p>Mass - private school, old money, kids
Cali - public schools, new money or average money people, more Asians (not to be stereotypical, but its kinda true).</p>
<p>in new england obviously :)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.morganquitno.com/edrank06.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.morganquitno.com/edrank06.htm</a></p>
<p>That link must be a joke. Seriously.</p>
<p>One: MA should be the smartest. Harvard, MIT, Johns Hopkins, etc.
Two: Montana, Wisconsin, and Iowa are in the top 10?!?!?!?!?!?
Three: wrong, wrong, wrong!!!!!
Four: CA is the 47th smartest state. Stanford, CIT, Berkeley, etc?!?</p>
<p>Whooa...where did you get Johns hopkins in the mix with Harvard and MIT? Yes, Harvard, and MIT are both in MA, but JHU is in MD...but true though, I agree MA is a pretty smart state</p>
<p>Well, all I know is Florida sucks.</p>
<p>California has been down there for quite a while... a number of districts don't perform well academically because their APIs (Academic Performance Index) are quite low. We have a large number of illegal immigrants, so that may be another factor as well (not trying to point fingers - I don't mean to offend anybody).</p>
<p>Oh, haha yeah sorry, I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that. Perhaps I was just too furious. :)</p>
<p>Florida!!! Haha, I wish. I think we are #49.</p>
<p>Iowa has the highest graduation rate followed by North Dakota.</p>
<p>Top 10:
1...Iowa
2...North Dakota
3...Wisconsin
4...Nebraska
5...Vermont
6...Montana
7...Minnesota
8...West Virginia
9...Pennsylvania
10..Utah</p>
<p>Money has nothing to do with smart students. Money does nothing for the quality of education. We spend more per student than many other countries that out-perform us on international tests at age 15, yet we score higher than they do at age 8. We could improve our schools trememndously if we allowed kids to choose their own schools, thus causing competition. Our education system is a stagnant unionized, government-run monopoly, and nothing gets done in a monopoly.</p>
<p>Student Vouchers.</p>
<p>If you go by PSAT cutoffs, it's probably California..
Then again somebody might argue that not everybody takes the SAT... (For example the ACT is more widespread in Iowa, so hypothetically Iowa can be the smartest state... hey you never know!)</p>
<p>We rank up there. Some of the inner city schools bring us down though.</p>
<p>I've noticed that pretty much everyone is going to say that it is their state...</p>
<p>I didnt say we are the smartest state. I doubt that. I would probably say Mass. or MD. from what i've seen.</p>
<p>Whatever state I'm in.</p>
<p>NY defenitely lol</p>
<p>Maryland!!!</p>
<p>Californiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</p>
<p>New York! (10 char)</p>
<p>The question is too ambiguous to answer -and SAT results by states are useless because in states with higher participation rates -the scores are invariably dragged down</p>