<p><em>raises hand</em> CRAPPY high school right here! We've got like 3000 students, and only about a handful are really motivated and concerned about their education. Most people who graduate will go to the community college, if they even go at all. There ARE some that go away for college, though those schools are usually mediocre at best. I'm not positive whether or not anyone has ever made it to an IVY from around here, but I doubt it, as we all probably would have heard about it in the newspaper if they did. Haha</p>
<p>Based on Texas public school rankings, my hs is a crappy school. Huge drop-out rate, bad attendance, not great TAKS scores school-wide, and bad retention rate. But, we have many AP's offered at my school, so there are opportunities at my school. It's just that only a select group take advantage of those opportunities, and that select group is very small in comparison to the 3,000+ student population.</p>
<p>our school is horrible, we have only 3 AP classes, most of the students are idiots. The top 12 students (of 600) are always published in a newsletter type thing each year with the school they will be attending, all of them go to nearby state colleges, few ever go out of state. This is due in part to our faulty guidance counselors, who think giving you an opportunity to attend a state college is wonderful. They don't realize some people want more, and unless you personally bring it up, they don't even offer it as a possibility. If you do bring it up, they have little to no information.</p>
<p>Our teachers, sports, and EC's are all very good, but beyond that, it's not the best in the world. There are too many kids, with more each year and nowhere in sight of a new building. Speaking of buildings, ours is essentially a fire hazard (a friend of mines dad's runs a roofing business and says it would go up pretty quickly), it has black mold in a couple of the rooms, the roof also leaks in the freshman hallway (only annoying because I have to to go english in that hallway), our guidance department essentially sucks (almost not incentive to competive kids to go anywhere on the level of HYPS), 3 counselors for 1100 students.</p>
<p>we're better off than cleveland city schools but it's still fun to gripe about our own petty problems!</p>
<p>ilovetocamp-"well, a mechanic is a decent job, and u don't really need TOO much of an educaiton and just a love of cars"</p>
<p>not necessarily true, you need a specific education. Cars are more and more run by computers everyday, that's why they're called 'automotive technicians' now</p>
<p>my school is 5000kids......624 are seniors. and im one of the 624.......I say about 150 to 180 of them is rank B+ to A+.......the rest is history.....and I know the guy who's ranked 624. =/ He just start working on his grades now. Oh well, better late than never.</p>
<p>Um.. I think I may win? I go to a public school in a town of 600 people. My school has 200 people K-12. We have no AP or IB courses and no honors classes. I don't think anyone has ever even applied to an Ivy before. I will more than likely be the first to apply to one.</p>
<p>I Do I Do :(</p>
<p>"The six schools added to the Impact program are Lafayette and Abraham Lincoln High Schools..."</p>
<p>I go to Abraham Lincoln High School. IT IS AN IMPACT SCHOOL! They still over about 10 APs and several honor programs. They almost always have 3 or under students entering ivy-league schools. Also, there is a very low graduation rate (school of 2800).</p>
<p>my school isn't "crappy", but sometimes I wish I had the oppurtunities others had. I had never even heard of aime before this year.</p>
<p>i'm going to be an @55, and say we had 18 people go on to Princeton, another like 3 to Yale, app. 5 to Cornell, 2 to Harvard, and maybe 4/5 other people who went to Dartmouth, columbia, Brown, etc...this is out of a graduating class of less than 300 people.</p>
<p>Well,sometimes i wish i did not go to my high school, because if i was to go to one of your guys "sucky" hs, or at least a mediocre hs, i'd be able to get that 4.0 and be one of the people every year to go to the ivy. sometimes when you are with super genius people, it stinks cuz your left in the dust. i mean they had to take out rankings, so we dont know what rank we are cuz kids commited suicide or were too competitive. You guys who are the smartest in your grade, dont feel bad , just know that their are definitely some pros to the situation. It doesnt really matter where you go, its what you do with your own self. </p>
<p>best of luck.</p>
<p>in some ways it's a disadvantage to go to a competitive high school. the name says it all, COMPETITIVE high school. it's harder to make the team sports, be elected as club leader, bcome the _____ (fill in the blank) leader at your school. and also, it's harder to be be at the top of the ladder at a more competitive school.</p>
<p>My school has 1100 students,3 AP Classes - AP Art History, AP American History, AP Calc and the guidance departmenet acts like there is no such things as out of state colleges.</p>
<p>"we're better off than cleveland city schools but it's still fun to gripe about our own petty problems!"</p>
<p>Well I guess that's true, cleveland school's are in real bad shape. (CEO Byrd-Bennett is doing a great job)</p>
<p>I go to a pretty bad school. We have about 1200 kids and a very high drop-out rate. Less than half go to 4-year schools. Hmm... we haven't had an Ivy kid in a few years (Dartmouth). I think that was the same year we had our last (2) NMS's - none since. My school offers 4 APs.</p>
<p>I go to a very crappy middle school. I could go three times a week and still have my 4.0. We are completely underfunded and the kids have no ambition. I can't imagine what it would be like in the nonhonors class.eeeeeeewwwwwwww.Alotof kids fail</p>