<p>so i guess schools like UCs will only look at your grade objectively?</p>
<p>you just hear what you want to hear, don't you?
everybody has been saying easy high school = bad for colleges, besides admissions officers are going to look at everything subjectively.</p>
<p>stupid freshman. or eighth grader, even worse.</p>
<p>and you see only what you want to see..</p>
<p>i'm not even an eighth grader..</p>
<p>i'm a senior who's BEEN attending super competitive high school...</p>
<p>looking back, i just wanted to know if that was worth it or not..(some of my friends dropped out in sophomore year and went to some of lesser school)
i felt kinda cheated...</p>
<p>now knowing that they look at your school..i feel better..</p>
<p>Yes, college adm comms look at how rigorous your high school is considered. Even the state schools do this--this helps in making scholarship/financial aid decisions when comparing students from different schools with same rank/scores.</p>
<p>Venkater said
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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.
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<p>The above [bold] only [bold] works if you are applying to a public U that is governed by state law mandating top 10% automatic enrollment, such as UT-Austin. Top 10% are automatically admitted no matter what high school they come from. This is supposed to even the playing field. A caveat to this in Texas is that UT-Austin enrollment is so high, that you are not automatically guaranteed a spot on that campus...you might have to go to a different campus in the UT system and have to transfer in. We visited last year from OOS.</p>
<p>Yes, college adm comms look at how rigorous your high school is considered. Even the state schools do this--this helps in making scholarship/financial aid decisions when comparing students from different schools with same rank/scores.</p>
<p>Venkater said
[quote]
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.
[quote]
</p>
<p>The above [bold]only[bold] works if you are applying to a public U that is governed by state law mandating top 10% automatic enrollment, such as UT-Austin. Top 10% are automatically admitted no matter what high school they come from. This is supposed to even the playing field. A caveat to this in Texas is that UT-Austin enrollment is so high, that you are not automatically guaranteed a spot on that campus...you might have to go to a different campus in the UT system and have to transfer in. We visited last year from OOS.</p>