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Newsweek releases Top 1000 high schools in the nation.

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Link: Top 1000 High Schools

If you notice, my old high school blew the competition away 😛 I graduated 6th out of ... I don't remember.

#8 on the list, SEM, has an awful principal whose sole mission in life is to beat TAG at anything. Originally, he wanted to beat TAG academically, but that can't happen. Seems like he fails at life.

Where is your old/current school on the list?
 
Umm, it's not ridiculous. Most states have a GT or TG or TAG program setup.

GT = Gifted and Talented
TG and TAG = Talented and Gifted

Normal high schools might offer a few GT/TAG courses, such as English, etc. The school I attended, however, was 100% TAG courses. It was the TAG High School (public, Dallas ISD).
 
I don't feel like reading what these rankings are based off of, but I'm finding a lot of HS in my area that are ghetto laden.
 
I got my diploma from #237 without ever attending a class there. In fact, I couldn't name youmore than a single teacher at the school. In 2005 they got 10+ kids into Harvard from a class of <150. Just a plain old public school in a town of 15,000 people in the 'burbs of Boston.

I don't care because any school or student can be "gifted and awesome as a school or person" if you throw enough money at it, thus why my school was so high as it is in a town where the median house price is around 1.5 million.
 
Note also that this list does not include so called "public elites" like the NYC Specialized Science High Schools and Hunter College HS
 
The methodology is rather odd. I took an AP calculus exam which I failed. Yet according to the methodolgy used here my school gets a bump up in the ranking simply because I sat for the exam.
 
This is a ridiculous way of ranking schools. For example, my school only allows about 95% of the class to take maximum of 3 AP's (the top 5 percent can take 4); however, I know many high schools that let you take as many as you want. Somehow we are still in the top 100.
 
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This is a ridiculous way of ranking schools. For example, my school only allows about 95% of the class to take maximum of 3 AP's (the top 5 percent can take 4); however, I know many high schools that let you take as many as you want. Somehow we are still in the top 100.
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That's the shittiest rule I have ever heard. I took 18 AP classes, 17 AP tests, and passed all 17.
 
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