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Newsweek releases Top 1000 high schools in the nation.

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Originally posted by: DaiShan
Originally posted by: Safeway
Originally posted by: 50
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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If it's a public school it isn't a bad rule. Public school AP exams are funded by the school, not the students. When I was in high school some of my friends at public school thought that it was a big joke and actually walked out of their AP tests. No harm, no foul to them. I had extra incentive to pass because my parents told me that if I didn't I would be paying the ~$87 for the test. I'm not sure if they were serious or not, but it got my attention and I passed them all heh 😀
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I honestly can't remember how the system worked at my public school. I still have a feeling that I had to shell out some money for my AP tests. I think there was a mix of students paying a reduced rate to take the AP tests and for some it would be fully compensated by the school. Either way, I took AP tests without limitations.
 
Originally posted by: Safeway
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).
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word......I just installed a 7800 GT
 
Originally posted by: Accipiter22
Originally posted by: Safeway
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).
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word......I just installed a 7800 GT
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:thumbsup:
 
Screwed up list. It ranked New Trier in surburan chicago at #391, despite the fact that ..."New Trier Township High School has been included in the "top ten" and "most successful" lists of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and PARADE magazine. The school was also identified as "quite possibly the best public high school in America" by Town and Country. Life also recognized New Trier as one of the best high schools in America with cover stories in 1950 and 1998."

Right...Best public school in IL, but somehow nationally it's almost #400? Right....

 
Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Originally posted by: halik
Originally posted by: AntaresVI
Originally posted by: halik
Originally posted by: Safeway
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?
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umm highschool is virtually irrelevant as far as employment is concerted...
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What does that have to do with anything?
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It makes any ranking of highschools pointless. If you went to the best highschool in the nation and followed it up with a community college, you're still screwed.
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i shouldnt be shocked by a comment like this from you, but even you didnt appear to be this ignorant in the past.
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Go ahead and fool yourself into thinking that "it's not where you went, but what your learned". Brand name education open doors for opportunities and social networks that community college can't even remotely touch. I can show you a list of the kids from my last internship (premier investment bank), all the schools represented were in top 25.

I have yet to meet an employer that even looks at what highschool you went to.

 
Originally posted by: DLeRium
Boo #147, but this is stupid. We have some of the smartest kids in our school, and we feed the top schools in the nation..

53 incoming into Cal last year? Geez.
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And you still got PWNED at physics by PurdueRy.
 
That list is possibly the most retarded way of ranking schools that I've ever seen.

What about college placement, SAT scores, etc.

This is while back for me...but when I was in HS taking AP's most of my friends were not taking AP's at all because the schools they were going to (MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Harvey Mudd) DID NOT accept AP tests for full class credit.

So were my graduating class to be ranked our class would've probably not even been ranked at all even though 75% of the graduating class were attending top 50 universities.

I don't remember all of our test results as a class but I do remember that of all the folks that took the calc AP, 95% passed it and over 50% got 5's.
 
Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
So if a high school forces their students to take 5 AP tests, they win by default.

Dumb.
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At JCIB you were never forced to take AP or IB tests. I only took 2...
 
Originally posted by: DaiShan


Put those same kids in an inner city school that doesn't have enough money for books and see how well they turn out.
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They will still turn out better than the inner city kids at a wealthy school.

The people have already been filtered out through the system. The people that live in the wealthy areas have proven themselves to be able to outsmart their competition. It's not politically correct, and it does seem elitist, but it's the truth.
 
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: DaiShan


Put those same kids in an inner city school that doesn't have enough money for books and see how well they turn out.
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They will still turn out better than the inner city kids at a wealthy school.

The people have already been filtered out through the system. The people that live in the wealthy areas have proven themselves to be able to outsmart their competition. It's not politically correct, and it does seem elitist, but it's the truth.
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You should go volunteer for James Hart's campaign.
 
Originally posted by: DaiShan
Originally posted by: mugs

They'd do well, because they have parents who would make sure they do. Money doesn't fix schools, some of the worst schools have high funding and can't do jack with it. Education starts in the home.
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Are you serious? He said that those kids are just naturally smarter and you are saying that if you put them in a situation where they have no ability to learn they will still learn? Do you really think that poor people are just genetically inferior?
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Did you even read his post? He said that their parents would make sure that they learn and that education starts in the home. Then you make an idiotic reply stating that they have "no ability to learn".
 
Originally posted by: Gigantopithecus

You should go volunteer for James Hart's campaign.
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Liberals can't accept the truth if it doesn't conform to their touchy/feely utopian view of society.

I hate to break it to you, but just because you're human, it doesn't mean that you're exempt from competition in life. Survival of the fittest is still in effect, whether you want to accept that or not.
 
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