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my friend is looking into transfering into a prep school... but the school has to be on the west coast. anyone knows some really good ones on the west coast?

By Tigeruppercut (Tigeruppercut) on Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 06:25 pm: Edit

Flintridge Prep
in rich city la canada flintridge, i go there for summer school.

By Gianscolere (Gianscolere) on Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 07:43 pm: Edit

How about Thacher School- www.thacher.org .Probably one of the most prominent in the West Coast.

Good luck!

By Poutingminotaur (Poutingminotaur) on Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 12:12 am: Edit

thanks!

By Gianscolere (Gianscolere) on Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 05:55 pm: Edit

You're welcome! Please post some more and let me know about your friend's school search.

By Sixtoes (Sixtoes) on Monday, May 12, 2003 - 08:30 pm: Edit

polytechnic school in pasadena is the highest ranked school in the west (based on the worth list- roughly 10% get into harvard yale or princeton). check it out- polytechnic.org

oh yeah, and flintridge prep sucks! (rivalry, heh)

By Proudpapa (Proudpapa) on Monday, May 12, 2003 - 09:45 pm: Edit

Dont' forget about Cate- a really unique and high quality school from what I've heard.

By Poutingminotaur (Poutingminotaur) on Monday, May 12, 2003 - 11:01 pm: Edit

thanks guys! my friend live in LA county... so he's actually looking into polytechnic school, and harvard westlake... those are what i've been hearing so far.
he has strong interest in math/science
any thoughts?

By Gianscolere (Gianscolere) on Tuesday, May 13, 2003 - 05:50 pm: Edit

poutingminotaur: is your friend looking for day or boarding schools or both?

By Poutingminotaur (Poutingminotaur) on Tuesday, May 13, 2003 - 09:40 pm: Edit

i think he prefers day school. but he's also thinking about boarding school

By Sixtoes (Sixtoes) on Wednesday, May 14, 2003 - 01:19 am: Edit

h-w is pretty strict, and its bigger than poly. both have awesome placement. h-w offers /more/ since its larger, but then there are a ton of benefits to going to a small school as well.

at poly, starting next year, you take a semester of chemistry frosh year and either biology, chemistry, or ap chem soph year. ap chem is incredibly tough, pretty much everyone gets 5s. your friend might like that challenge. junior year you can take chemistry (if you took bio soph year), biology, or ap biology. senior year is physics, honors physics, or ap physics. honors and ap have the same 1st semester curriculum, but in 2nd semester honors does a lot of building stuff. its cool. as far as math goes, there are two tracks- one will get you to calculus ab, the other to bc. you can also take stats senior year and chaos theory is incorporated into the curriculum.

poly has an /excellent/ math program right now- it is suited for people who don't like to learn silly rules and prefer true understanding. however, there are a lot of people who don't like the system because basically they're lazy and dislike math. its unclear what the future of the poly math program will be. almost all the texts are written by teachers themselves, and they're very precise and interconnected- which is awesome, it really taught me to love the philosophical aspects of math.

hmm. anything else?

By Celebtracker (Celebtracker) on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 01:47 pm: Edit

How about Hawaii prep? Then there's the school Bill Gates went to. Cate and Thacher ARE good. See www.celebrityprepschools.com for more info.