<p>Why enter hard HS?</p>
<p>All colleges care are your GPA and the kind of classes you take....</p>
<p>so say why not go to some bum HS and become valedictorian then to suffer with low GPA in hard HSs?</p>
<p>Admission ppl don't look at your HS now do they?</p>
<p>You are willing to go to some crap HS and therefore sacirificing your education so you can have a slightly better chance of getting into college? Get a life.</p>
<p>I go to the high school that's in my town. End of story. I didn't know until recently that such is not the case for everybody. I'm sure my school's not a great one--in fact, I know it's not--but I take what I get. Is that considered stupid on the CC circuit? :p</p>
<p>Because the bad high schools are pretty bad. But high schools perform generally the same in the same region so you don't really have a choice.</p>
<p>Um, I think tthat's supossed to be the point of the SAT/ACT - to see whether your A is the same as someone else's A. And I'm positive that they look at your SAT/ACT scores.</p>
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Admission ppl don't look at your HS now do they?
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Actually, they do.</p>
<p>Difference can be huge..i don't think the difference is as trivial as you might say fusion..</p>
<p>.3 difference in GPA can make or break you if you are on the border of 4.0~..</p>
<p>Just one more question..</p>
<p>The school I'm attending now is pretty competitive and well known in my community....</p>
<p>There is a college X that I want to go to...Fortunately some of the people there are visiting our school to provide any questions we might have..</p>
<p>Does this mean that X college will take account the competitiveness of our school and give slightly more edge to my gpa? wishful thinking?</p>
<p>"Actually, they do."</p>
<p>Really? Is that true? I'm hearing from my friends that they don't give a damn...</p>
<p>Yes they do look at which high school you attend. Especially if you attend a competitive school they will, to some degree, take that into account.</p>
<p>"Initially left off the list by mistake, North Gwinnett was recently added to the "Top Public High Schools List" of Newsweek magazine. North is ranked #557 in the country, which is approximately 200 spots higher than last year's ranking and the top spot for Gwinnett County Public Schools!"</p>
<p>Too bad it won't matter since I plan on going to a community college xD</p>
<p>i think fusion is right, good luck once you go to college unprepared because you decided to go to a crappy high school where only the bare minimum was necessary to get A+++'s. colleges love people who sell themselves out just to look better.</p>
<p>Wow, spend four years to die of boredom in crappy school of your choice just to get into college. Wow.</p>
<p>My mom works with a woman whos daughter was at the top quarter of her hs class. the HS is much worse than the one I go to. The reason to go to a good HS is because it prepares you better for college. The daughter of my mom's coworker got great grades in HS science, but had sub par grades in college. Annother thing a good highschool has is a high concentration of driven kids (or driven parents) will prepare you better for an environment with highly motivated students (like at ivys).</p>
<p>The advantages of going to a bad HS is that your grades will be higher. Also, if you are really smart, you will impress your teachers much more than at a good HS and your recs will be a lot better. Finally, you will have less competition from classmates for top colleges. At a good school like mine, so many kids apply to Cornell, Penn, Michigan, and other very competitive schools. At a subpar HS fewer kids apply, decreasing your competition, increasing your chances of getting in.</p>
<p>Going to a bad HS helps the most in Texas because if you are in the top 10% of your class you are into UTA without question, and that is easier at a bad HS than a good one.</p>
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<p>I would much rather be ill-prepared for UCB than well prepared for UCI. My high school is a top 5 public school in CA. The school is intensely competitive and even some future IVY leaguers don't have a 4.0 UW, which is considered the holy grail, unlike some schools that hand out extra credit like it's a buffet or something. </p>
<p>True, a lot of students get into their top choice. But, plenty of otherwise well-credentialed students who are only lacking in one department(GPA) are rejected from top schools simply because of that. These are 2200+ 700+ students who probably would have been valedictorians at any other school and are probably more intelligent/competent than a large section of the incoming freshman UC classes, yet they are made to possibly regret for their entire life for attending our school. It really annoys me to see some grade-inflated 1800/600 score student at their top choice while these students are stuck going to their safety.</p>
<p>your better off going to a better high school than going to a crap one and boosting your GPA...and yes colleges do look and know how good your high school is</p>
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Really? Is that true? I'm hearing from my friends that they don't give a damn...
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Well I heard that from admissions officers. Take your pick on who to believe. :p</p>
<p>Oh and I think public colleges could be an exception. They'll probably look at your GPA and courseload objectively - that is, with little consideration of the school you attend. So I guess for public schools that make sense, but not for privates.</p>
<p>I just wanted to learn more....</p>
<p>But then again school is probably not about education......</p>
<p>Because the four years of high school, is, gasp, about more than applying to college. You will learn much more in a good high school (and I don't mean just book knowledge) than wasting away in a crappy one. I know from experience.</p>
<p>Being at a harder high school also gives you more opportunity. I moved from an extremely good district to a so-so one in the last half of 6th grade, and it awes me still that the projects/field trips/EC opportunties that I had at my first middle school was greater than that offered at my current high school.</p>
<p>Colleges take into account all of the opportunities (classes etc) offered at your high school and its competitiveness. But it really only makes a difference if you attend a really "bad" school or a really "good" school.</p>