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Give us a thumb-nail impression of your High School. Is it public or private, small/medium/large, urban/suburban, poor or affluent, coed or single sex? Tell us what part of the country you're in---what state, even?

Provide a snap-shot of your student body. Are there a lot of preppy types? Grunge rule at your school? What's the ethnic make-up there? What's the most popular type of music? What's the proportion of slackers to hardworkers? You know...spill!

By Beck86nj (Beck86nj) on Saturday, August 09, 2003 - 08:10 pm: Edit

Ummm ok

~parochial sp?
~large I think? total student body last year was just over 1000
~in the downtown of a small city
~middle class
~coed, but mostly girls
~jersey


mostly white, all different types of kids, any music really
mostly slackers with a few VERY hard workers

By Emma (Emma) on Saturday, August 09, 2003 - 08:16 pm: Edit

Ok, my school in London:

700 pupils, about 100 teachers, 7 grades (start at 11), 100 people a year.

all-girls

99% go on to university.

Ethnic make up - not as diverse as one would hope but too be honest, i don't really look at peoples skin colour.

Sport is NOT a big thing at all... dont have to do any in the last two grades, and even in the last grade you have to, only 30 mins a week! Hockey team is the only big-ish thing.

Reallllyyyyy nice school food... like seriously amazing.

Nice common room for last 2 grades.

Most popular music, hmmmm hip hop, r & b, pop

Quite intergrated groups. In my year i'd say about 20% would be what you'd call the popular type but its not that defined, one will talk to most people... hmm well not some, blah you know what i mean; basically not bitchy groups.

Slackers or hardworkers...? hmmm i would say that in general hardworking, you have to be pretty intellegent to get in, and theres no point slacking if your parents are paying for you to be there. But of course, everyone will try to get out of stuff. Everyone is rather ambitious so noone would do that badly.

By Purgeofdoors (Purgeofdoors) on Saturday, August 09, 2003 - 10:18 pm: Edit

1200 kids
public
southern - Louisiana
middle of a government welfare housing project
you get the point

By Olivia (Olivia) on Saturday, August 09, 2003 - 11:02 pm: Edit

DASH- design & architecture senior high
magnet school, you can choose to join one of the following "strands" to study in 10th,11th, & 12th grade (in 9th you just have 2d & 3d art, in 10th, 11th, & 12th, you have 2d AND classes in your strand...): fashion design, film, graphic design, architecture, industrial design.
Lots of diversity: mostly hispanic people, some african americans, some haitians, some caucasians. The religion is mostly christian/catholic/some islamic, I think.... very few Jews. (I am caucasian/Jewish)
Mostly slackers, a lot of potheads....
very mixed socioeconomic backgrounds.... very poor to upper middleclass. Not really a lot of the whole "popular"/"dork" thing going on, everybody pretty much mixes with everyone else.

By Olivia (Olivia) on Saturday, August 09, 2003 - 11:02 pm: Edit

forgot to mention- DASH is located in the design district of Miami.......

By Bobbyh (Bobbyh) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 12:09 am: Edit

I went to school in England for two years for primary school (elementary). They had the best school food ever. The only thing is, the damn lunchlady made me eat the crusts of my sandwiches...

By Perpendicular (Perpendicular) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 01:25 am: Edit

No counselors, no clubs, no sports, no nothing. In IB section, only about 15 ppl in a class and only 1 class in a grade.

By Jlq3d3 (Jlq3d3) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 01:35 am: Edit

I go to a small Jewish School in LA that was made the front page of aug 3 Sunday's LA Times.
-We have about 70 per grade.
-All go on to college.
-Our school is based on a harvard professor's (kohlberg) theory about morality. We have weekly town halls and moral dillema discussions.
-It is coed and it is in the middle of LA.
-There is not a really popular group. There are a few slackers but even they are expected to go onto at least a calstate or lower tier uc.
-Someone who graduated last year who is now at Yale is running for gov of california.

By Sirmoreau (Sirmoreau) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 01:45 am: Edit

To run for governor, you only need a 3100 dollars. My dad was thinking about it, but never got around to it. Just because it is a "recall"

By Prethumous (Prethumous) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 02:01 am: Edit

* public
* large (~ 2600 kids in all, 675 in my class)
* suburban
* neither impoverished nor opulent
* co-ed, thank gods
* northeastern Illinois, the town with the state's biggest mall
* sizable amount of preppies
* noticable grunge minority
* pretty much evenly divided ethnicities
* pop is the main music
* for every idle student, there's an industrious one

By Ch2 (Ch2) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 10:48 am: Edit

public
medium/large ~1450 kids 9-12
suburban/small town
very affluent, for the most part
coed
CT
all kinds of groups: preps, jocks, popular people, nerds, slackers, goths, "alternative kids", but some of the groups blend together a little occasionally, which is cool. i don't think we belong to any of the groups really - we just have our own group of relatively average people.
most people either just listen to whatever is on the radio (although i must confess i don't know what that is), but there is a sizable minority of kids you listen to much better music.
our school is pretty competitive so that even popular kids and slackers work pretty hard, and a large minority of kids work extremely hard.

By Jenniferelaine (Jenniferelaine) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 12:37 pm: Edit

This is PreK-12
About 300 kids

100% WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant)

cornbelt of Illinois, there are a lot of farm families, but not all.

School was well known for tech. back in the 80's- we were one of the first schools to get computers.

Huge number of LD kids, they are shipped in from surrounding school districts.

More go on to college than don't, about 80%.

We are currently the one of two non-inner city schools on the State of Illinois Academic Watch List (if the students fail a certain test school gets put on...)

No APs.

Only electives are in Ag. There is a required course in Ag (Agri Business).

All seniors have enough credits to graduate by the end of the sophomore year, but they have to come back for their junior and senior English classes. Juniors and Seniors just wander free adn help out the elementary teachers three hours every day because there's nothing for them to do.

By Entropy (Entropy) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 01:39 pm: Edit

My Wonderful School...

Louisville, KY
Student Population: About 1000
(88% African-American or of African Origin (i.e. Somalia, Ghana, Sudanese, DRC), 5% Vietnamese, 5% Bosnia 1% white, 1% Arab)
The school became 88% white until intergration in 1974
Magnet School (Law, Allied Health, Dental Science, Computer Technology Programs)
7 AP's (Offered just last year)
Advanced, Honors, Regular Programs
99.9% Teachers are condescending jerks
.01% actually care about students
Over 80% of the students are jerks
20% are actually committed to their studies
Most of the Adminstration is a joke
Was the only school African-Americans could go to prior to 1954; originally established by African-Americans in 1880 as a school their children could go to (was funded through their tax dollars)

Muhammad Ali graduated from this school as a "D" student, was ranked 371 out of 392. Hasn't contributed one cent to the damn school but his pictures are all over the hallways.

By Jlq3d3 (Jlq3d3) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 06:53 pm: Edit

Sirmoreau: You need like 3500$ or 10000 sigs. He got 10000 sigs

By Purgeofdoors (Purgeofdoors) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 06:55 pm: Edit

Isn't it $3500 and only 65 sigs?

By O71394658 (O71394658) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 07:50 pm: Edit

Yeah. It's only 65 sigs.

By Valpal (Valpal) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 09:08 pm: Edit

Wow! I have to say that I am amazed by the sheer variety of "types" of schools so far. I had somewhat expected that most of you would be from either small, private prep schools or large, well-funded suburban schools. I get the impression that most of you are quite committed to your studies, (Sirmoreau being a bit of an exception to that assumption.

By Beck86nj (Beck86nj) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 09:24 pm: Edit

Entropy: my parents both grew up in Louisville, and my dad graduated from Speed. My grandparents want me to go there too (or Bellerman), but I don't like the weather there... I'm heading to New England for school.

By South1985 (South1985) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 10:20 pm: Edit

* Top 30 in best high schools of the nation
* Rich pothead school(yes, alot of smart students that get messed up on the weekends)
*Suburban Washington DC
*Very old School
*Populaton = 2,000(school is crowded)
Alot of grunge, a couple preps, alot of "hip hoppers", alot of gang members(ironic for being in top 30 of the nation).
Race = Very diverse, alot of white, good amount of black,hispanic,asian.

By Icarus (Icarus) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 06:05 am: Edit

- south Orange County, CA
- private, Catholic, co-ed
- about 1800 students
- extremely affluent
- 21 AP tests offered
- Full IB program
- 99% white and a few asian
- 99% go on to college (many to Ivy leagues) many others go to USC, LMU, and USD

As far as student body goes, there is no grunge, goth, etc. Among the jocks, preppy, and 'popular', there are mostly surfer/skater types. Typical orange county kids. (as much as i hate to say it, somewhat like the kids on the new show "the oc"). Lifted black trucks and BMWs fill the student lots, and there is a large amount of drugs because the students can easily afford it.

By Poutingminotaur (Poutingminotaur) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 07:22 am: Edit

hey icarus... i know what school you go to!

myself
-central orange county, ca
-public, co-ed
-big.. with like 2600 students
-lotsa AP tests offered
-IB program...going into its 4th year
-40 something percent Latinos, 40 something percent caucasian, a little less than 10 percent asian, only a few african american. about half of the school is really affluent.
-around 60% go on to college... half of them to jc, half of them to 4 year colleges... a few go to ivy, stanford, MIT caliber schools. lots go to berkeley and UCLA, then to other UCs. relatively not that many go to calstates
-student body... pretty diverse. but social scene dominated by the jocks, popular and surfer/skater. and yes as much as i hate to agree with icarus, the oc stereotype does exist... lotsa nice cars, lotsa drugs because kids can easily afford it.

By Saera (Saera) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 07:50 am: Edit

-Small public school (about 700 students total) in semi-rural PA.
-Only about 4 APs, and only offered to seniors.
-Almost all caucasian, a few minorities
-Most, if they go to college, go to community college. Only a few go anywhere else.
-lots of preps, jocks, skaters, and druggies.

By Mazzo (Mazzo) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 12:51 pm: Edit

-semi big private school (1200 students)
-about 15 APs offered
-almost all white kids some blacks and almost no asians
-lots of jocks/ sports dominate social scene
-great food on campus
-musical organizations are really hot
-touchy feely atmosphere
-very religious (though students arnt)

By Chim_Chim (Chim_Chim) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 02:42 pm: Edit

-120 kids
-public
-rural
-food tastes horrible
-primarily white trash Nascar fans who think they're better than everyone else haha
-only 1 non-white kid
-big on sports
-60% or so go on to college. 50% drop out of college in their first year. Most HS graduates return to the town within 5 years because they can't make it in the regular world.

By Jlq3d3 (Jlq3d3) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 03:32 pm: Edit

Its 60 sigs from party memebers and 3500$. The 3500 fee is waved if you get 10000 sigs. I read this on the cali sec of state's site.

By Rowan (Rowan) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 04:02 pm: Edit

Southern California.
* ~1500 students, ~400 in senior class
* Public, almost suburban but more rural.
* 80% white, 10% Hispanic, 5% Asian-American, 5% "other."
* 60%-80% go to college (30-40% of those go to local community colleges (one of three) and another 30-40% to UC/CSU system. Only about 5% go out of state, and 3% of those go to a community college in another state).
* 10 APs offered.
* Food is eh. It's almost all pre-packaged and heated up and sold all week (as in, the stuff on Monday that wasn't sold goes to Tuesday, etc.) But they do have good home-baked cookies. :>
* Big on football, though I have no idea why. Our team barely makes it to CIF every year and usually loses within the first two games. (And we have lost every single homecoming game for the past six years. Gee.)
* 50% affluent, 50% ... not.
* Student body is pretty laid back, quite SoCalish. There are preps and jocks, but they aren't so defined as teen movies would have you see it. The most obvious groups are the goth culture and the artists (including thespians, which would be my group). The pride and joy of my high school (and, sadly, where the most money goes) is the football field we all love to hate. That thing receives better treatment than the students and it *still* manages to turn yellow every year.

By Exonian04 (Exonian04) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 11:30 pm: Edit

Private
1015 students
Small town near seacoast.
All socioeconomic classes.
Coed, about 50/50
Dress Code: Tie


Generally white, but 34% are "students of color"

By Plastikcup (Plastikcup) on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 12:18 am: Edit

Great description of Exeter. My son is an alum. Good luck this year in your collge search. What are you looking toward?

By Chuck (Chuck) on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 12:33 am: Edit

such small schools!
-3,000 last year (slightly smaller this year), 800+ seniors
-40 students + one teacher = fun for nine weeks!
-nine-week block scheduling
-public, coed, northern CA
-evenly spread from affluence to living next door to a crack house (it could have been another drug or a combination of several, but I was at school when the cops came so I'm not completely sure)
-fairly diverse, no ethinic majority
-musical tastes are pretty much split -- we had one hip-hop, one pop, one spanish, and two rock radio stations at our school last year, and I know there are classical and country fans, as well
-I don't know about the food, I've refused to eat it, but that might be saying something...
-most go to college and a large part seem to like the local community colleges, but there are those that prefer CSUs, UCs, and the rare Ivy League or other private
-specific groupings don't seem to last longer than a couple days, and while there are jocks, nerds, preps, skaters, "rockers" and others who defy all classifications, most people roam and actually fit into mulitple groups
-most people are fairly intelligent, but most everyone is lazy which has varying results in regards to competition
-the only things all students seem to have in common is a lack of sleep (although the reasons for this vary from doing homework to partying) and an intense love of music (about one in three people that I know are in at least one band, which I think is odd)

By Number9 (Number9) on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 10:55 am: Edit

Suburban
99% white
near-Canton, Ohio
Both sexes
Public
VERY SMALL
Kids are of average/below-average intelligence
Everyone wants to act ghetto/black, and everyone wants to act smarter than they are.

By Valpal (Valpal) on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 12:09 am: Edit

Hi, Number9,
I find it very interesting that "ghetto" and "black" seem to be synoymous at your school. It's not surprising. The perception of what it means to be "black" is probably exclusively media driven, in the absence of actual black people with which to interact. Now don't get me wrong. There are certainly a goodly number of black youth who wholeheartedly embrace the MTV "gansta rap" identity. However, black kids can be just as varied in their "types"
as white kids. When you begin meeting up with some of them in college, you just might be surprised.

By Magicdragonfly (Magicdragonfly) on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 12:13 am: Edit

At my school..black people..are just..annoying..and act very ghetto..don't get me wrong..i've actually taken the time to get to know this people somewhat and i just..can't be around them. However..there are just as many white people who are just as bad. I think it's a bit easier to see w/ the black people b/c I know of ..probably 2 black girls that actually have a drive and don't act like they are 9 years old. ..I'm one of those people that hangs out w/ the more..intelligent and intellectual crowd..and complains about the idiots..*sigh* they need to have a separate school for them..esp since 3/4 of them don't even want to be in school (i'm not talking about all schools..i'm talking about mine)

By Magicdragonfly (Magicdragonfly) on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 12:16 am: Edit

hmm..I was watching that show..and thinking to myself..this is sickening but probably true to life..that's ..sad.

By Piku714 (Piku714) on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 12:29 am: Edit

*Public/Co-ed
*Suburban
*Massachusetts
*1700 students
~10-15 APs offered
*I've had more good teachers than bad ones
*Block scheduling
*Known as a jock school - several teams VERY competitive on the state level
*The drugged out, drunk football/hockey players dominate the social scene
*The town is made up of cheapskates that vote down any proposition to increase funding to the school system; we therefore do NOT have an auditorium. Our building's falling apart, too. But all those senior citizens don't care.
*Upper middle class town
*Probably ~85% white, mostly Catholic (half the town goes to the same church!)
*In the honors/AP classes, 50% white, 50% Asian
*About 30% of the student body works hard and cares about grades, I think.
*About 5-10 kids go to Ivys/MIT/Stanford etc. every year
*State champion Mock Trial team, world champion Destination Imagination team, competitive calculus team & math team, competitive DECA, good fine arts program (despite the lack of an auditorium)
*Most go on to one of the UMass schools or the local CC
*You will never find any healthy food in the cafeteria

But then, I graduated, so who cares? :-)

By Magicdragonfly (Magicdragonfly) on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 12:34 am: Edit

hmm..
my school:
public
coed
florida- which probably tells you that the school most likely sucks if you know anything about this state
last year it had around 2000 students..gotta be more this year b/c we get TONS of freshman (tho the class size gets down to like..1/2 of what it was freshman year when you graduate..for various reasons)
school was built around 1970 for the purpose of integrating the school system (on court order..how fun..)
a lot of the kids that go there really don't want to..and have either 40 minute bus rides or 20-30 minute car rides to get there due to zoning so there is diversity..(the reason they get annoyed: there is another school that'd be 5-10 minutes away in the car- i'm sorry but I think you should just go to the school you are closest to)
the teachers aren't that great..there are a few that are pretty good but generally *thumb down*
a few of the kids actually have decent cars and i don't know how..I assume it's their parents car (?) or mommy and daddy just live here and commute and bought the car for them
the freshman get to have all their classes in portables (started the year after I was a frosh- thank god) and basically it makes them act like 8th and 9th graders when they are in 10th grade..b/c they might as well be in their own school- it's a whole freshman 'center' supposedly to help the transition- but that doesn't make any sense b/c they have no classes w/ nonfreshman, they have their own lunch period, and the only time they see others is before or after school and between classes (we aren't allowed in the buildings right away..so..people mingle..or if they are special and/or just know the right people- they mingle in a classroom rather than outside..i opted for my friends in a classroom) basically the whole portables thing was most likely b/c it was the only way they could FIT the freshman
um..it sucks when it rains b/c the outside walkways like to flood
we have this thing called performanced based- where..some of the people doing it are *very* intelligent..but they are still doing something a monkey could do..
our administration is full of idiots
the assitant principals and deans are all on power trips, but the principal just doesn't care
I don't eat school food
they lock our bathrooms, and it's become the habit of many to go to the head of the math department for the keys to one of the hall's bathrooms (gets annoying b/c people interrupt class all the time)
it's very easy to skip classes and get away with it..you just walk around the school
many people go into AP classes b/c they don't have the GPA for dual enrollment (which is stupid b/c AP is generally harder..basically they don't belong in the class and slow everybody else down..it's annoying)
and this is waaaaaay too long and not at all what you were looking for..i shouldn't bother posting it but i will anyway

By Magicdragonfly (Magicdragonfly) on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 12:35 am: Edit

oh- it's almost impossible to find somebody in the school who hasn't at least TRIED drugs or alcohol..most get drunk and smoke pot regularly tho..even those that you really wouldn't expect it from

By B0otaful (B0otaful) on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 01:27 am: Edit

let's see...

- the school is HUGE. we have about 1,000 freshmen for 2003, probably a larger number this coming school year. of course, half of those students drop out by senior year. the senior class is about 500 or so.

- my school is full of dumb asses. nobody gives a damn about school and most of the damn ghetto ass pot heads drop out when they're 16 anyways.

- there are of course a lot of over achievers, some go to top colleges including ivy league, ect.

- it's a magnet school.

- if you're not in honors/ap classes then forget it, you have no future.

- a lot of girls get pregnant. a lot.

- you have your share of buttmunchers, the ones that hang around the halls, don't bother going to class.

- we have metal detectors, random locker/bookbag checks.

- most people only care about who goes out with who, the 'what are we doing tonights' and the teen nights at the club..

- most slack off.

i stay away from the bad crowd, but i study a lot because i do love to learn and intend on graduating top of my class. but i have a life too... i do care about the 'what are we doing tonights' aside from studying... so yeah.

By Valpal (Valpal) on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 03:04 am: Edit

I'm surprised you have such a high concentration of slackers at a Magnet School! In your area, the entrance requirements for the Magnets pretty much eliminates the less-than-motivated.

If your Magnets are full of potheads and "buttmunchers"---LOL!---what must your regular schools be like? I shudder to think...

By B0otaful (B0otaful) on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 02:18 pm: Edit

lol actually my school is kind of both, we have the magnet programs, plus the 'regular' classes (non honors/non ap/non elective) and those classes are filled with trust fund idiots that think they can live off daddy's checkbook, but the magnet students are actually smart - filled with trust fund intellects. we have a distinguished science magnet and we win everything in science, first prize and all that, however i'm not in the science magnet because i'm not a science person. i loathe science. i'm more into literature and i take all of the same rigorous courses as the science magnet people minus the boring ass science classes plus the intense literary classes ;P

i won't even delve into what the regular schools are like. simply put... they're spoiled dummies, a lot like the 'regular' students at my school but dumber haha.

By Exonian04 (Exonian04) on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 10:12 pm: Edit

To plastikcup--

Looking at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown as top choices right now. Not a huge fan of the Ivys, or New England for that matter.

By Giglisucked (Giglisucked) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 03:15 am: Edit

How do you like Exeter?

By Elazar (Elazar) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 09:50 am: Edit

Small-jewish-school. A midsized jewish school.
Private.
Singe sex.
basketball team.
Dorm rooms.
Anoying junior class.
Classes for 13 hours a day.
bad food( actuly peoples opinions change about that after spending a year in Isreal.)

By Jimjunior (Jimjunior) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 12:52 pm: Edit

650 kids, private, catholic
suburban, large city
80% white, 15% asian/Philipino, 5% black
middle class to filthy rich
Garage is almost entirely filled with old volvos and new BMWs
No honors classes, 3 APs senior years
Almost everyone smokes and drinks, but most people are very smart., with average SAT around 1300
Sports are followed closely with crazy fans, since I was a freshman we have one state titles in girls basketball, volleyball, boys basketball, cross country, girls and guys tennis and softball
State Champ Mock Trial team, 6th in nation
99% go on the 4 year colleges, most go to private universities

By Jimjunior (Jimjunior) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 12:53 pm: Edit

oh, most people are preppy, lots of ethnic cliques, social groups geographically divided

By Number9 (Number9) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 01:16 pm: Edit

ValPal -
"I find it very interesting that "ghetto" and "black" seem to be synoymous at your school. It's not surprising. The perception of what it means to be "black" is probably exclusively media driven, in the absence of actual black people with which to interact. Now don't get me wrong. There are certainly a goodly number of black youth who wholeheartedly embrace the MTV "gansta rap" identity. However, black kids can be just as varied in their "types"
as white kids."

Yes, I meant black as the stereotypical black attitude. I know there are plenty of black people that dont act like this, and I have a few friends online are like that. Im not against black people or anything, and I know that they vary, like asians/whites/indians/etc, and there are plenty of non-stereotypical ones out there.


While there arent many black kids at my school (about 2), about a majority of the regular kids act black. Someone made a rap group even, they didnt release anything...

By Number9 (Number9) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 01:19 pm: Edit

I used to know someone from the "OC"

He had a Porsche and a Mercedes. He also mentioned massive sex parties they'd have there. He was gay, but it was open to all preferences.

I couldnt stand it there...

By Number9 (Number9) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 01:22 pm: Edit

I dont tend to hang out with anyone. I have a small group I talk to occaisonally, but I dont remain too friendly with anyone.

I cant stand to be around the less-intelligent for the most part, then I cant stand to be around the intelligent that put on airs that they act like more. So I limited myseld to very few people.

Ive found the people at my school (the valedictorian, and the rest at the top of the ranks) don't actually know as much as people believe. They know what is taught at school, but they dont know much about other things.

Im willing to learn as much as I can, I self-study languages, Im always diving more and more into computers, and try to catch something on TLC or History Channel at least once a week to learn something new.

By Irishsweeti (Irishsweeti) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 02:16 pm: Edit

I go to a private high school in Northern NJ.

The school is for girls in grades 7-12, with 7 and 8 considered to be in junior high (aka "lifers" due to their 6 years at the school).

Predominantly Catholic, with a few other religions in the minority (eg, Protestant, Orthodox Ukranian, a couple Muslim). The disclaimer for the school says that anyone can attend, but if you are of a different religion, you must learn about Roman Catholism in Theology classes.

Around 50 girls per class, but only 15-17 in the 7th or 8th grades (about 30 in total). 239 for the entire school for last year 48 graduated this year.

Most girls graduated from Catholic school before going here. A few in the minority (yours truly) from public school.

Many families are well off and very.. comfortable.

Nuns are the director and the principal, but 75% of the staff (including administration) is lay people.

School is more known for academics than athletics. Only team that really succeeds is the track team, due to individual performances.

15 APs offered. Almost every class is offered on an honors level, except for World History, Pre-Calculus, Algebra II, and the Theology classes.

By Zeeko (Zeeko) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 03:06 pm: Edit

about 300 students
coed
public
80% jock/drunks/potheads
10% loser/slackers/LD
less than 10%- VERY smart
i would say at least half the school plays one sport or another.
nobody takes the SAT, or SAT II's
I thing the average amount of ap's taken during the course of all 4 years is something like .046. our school offers quite a few, and you can take classes at a nearby college if you want, but the dumb guidance councilor gives AP classes a face that says I don't think you're smart enough to take this class.

By Gianscolere (Gianscolere) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 05:27 pm: Edit

I'm answering your questions directly.
-Private
-Medium-sized (665 students)
-Suburban (but has an urban feel compared to other boarding schools since its the nearest to Boston)
-Mostly affluent with 25% receiving financial aid
-Co-ed
-Location: New England/ Massachusetts

-Students are very high energy and selected through a rigorous admissions process. Are they preppy? Yes, I would think so.
-Not a lot of grungy types
-29% students of color
-International students represent 25 countries
-Most popular type of music? I don't know.
-Probably 99.5% hardworkers...you won't get in in the first place if you're a slacker.

By Godd (Godd) on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 12:51 am: Edit

i live in the san francisco bay area so my school is pretty urban with the BART (subway) right down the street. and city access with theatre, shops, resturants, mall, all within walking distance.

public with about 2000+ students.

has a reputation for being a bad school, and not very many end up going to college, or go to the community college.

overall gpa is probably below 3.0

more than half latino, then white, then asian, then black. very clique-ie, races hang amoungst the races.

very diverse musically, culturally, and types of people (skaters, preps, gangsters).


sometimes i wish i went to a different school, then again i love it.

By T2opine (T2opine) on Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 11:46 pm: Edit

Ok, here's my high school:

-Public high school in a suburb of Philadelphia
-Grades 6-12 only about 400 students in the entire school, averaging only 60 per graduating class.
-We have a VERY bad reputation in the area for being a slacker school.
-almost a quarter of our student population is in a Special Education program.
-We are very diverse for being such a small school. About 33% of the population is African-American, around 5% Hispanic, and not to mention the many international students that we have, who come from countries such as France, Haiti, Guatemala, Columbia, Mexico, Egypt, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, China, The Dominican Republic, and several others.
-In our town there's not too much to do. You have to go out of town to do anything fun.
-Even though we're seen as slackers, we've had several students get in to schools like, Cornell, Drexel, Dickinson, and NYU.

That's pretty much it that I can think of for my school.

By Asknot11 (Asknot11) on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 01:35 pm: Edit

Ok my school
-3300 students (roughly 800 per grade)
-Suburban Chicago
-Students come from varying economic background...They either live in a 5 million dollar estate or a 300k shack.
-On the whole 90% white the rest mainly asian
-A lot of students end up in Ivy league schools
- Most of those headed to the Ivies drink heavily on the weekend.
- lots of preps, druggies, and there really aren't jocks. The sports people tend to fall into either the druggy or prep type.
- There was once an article in a major newspaper about my schools academic system. They said the way kids were treated made their self esteem lower. Its because we have 5 levels of classes...
honors/ap, accelerated, prepatory, transitional, and special ed.

Oh, and prethemus do you go to Conant? By Woodfield?

By Fairyofwind (Fairyofwind) on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 01:39 pm: Edit

My school
1200 students?
suburban new jersey
upper/upper-middle class
immensely diverse (we have jocks, hotties, smart ppl, everyone you can think of, and we come from many different places around the world)
a few politicking geniuses
in general, decent faculty, but laden down with heavy beaurocracy
everyone eats lunch the same period

By Algonquin_Knigh (Algonquin_Knigh) on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 04:55 pm: Edit

My school (Boston Latin Academy) is #2 in the city of Boston, and in the top 15-20% for Massachusetts and the nation as a whole.

The cafeteria food...lol...my mom's been packing my lunch since preschool and I'm going to be a senior, but let's just say that the vending machines are as well-used as the free lunch cards.

My school is in what is probably Boston's worst neighborhood (Roxbury), but we have plenty of achievers here. Even the idiots are actually pretty intelligent, but just don't try enough (that's me lol). Then there are a few that are truly hopeless, but they usually leave/drop out (often getting kept back first).

My school goes from grades 7-12, and there's about 300 kids in each new seventh grade class. New kids are only admitted in 7th and 9th grades. Class sizes drop to about 230 or so by senior year.

My school offers honors classes starting in 8th grade for math, English, and Latin, and in 10th grade for languages (French and Spanish; there is no honors Japanese and the German program was cut) and sciences. AP classes are offered for juniors and seniors in most subjects.

The diversity level is high. We have whites (mostly Catholic and of Irish, Italian, or Polish origin), Asians (Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian), blacks and Latinos (all backgrounds), and about 10 Jews (including teachers). I am part of this lovely latter minority. =) My school used to be mostly Jewish until the early 1970's, though.

By Supernova (Supernova) on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 08:07 pm: Edit

New Jersey.

about 600-700 kids per grade, 10th-12th.

Upper-middle class ~ The cars in the student parking lot are a hell of a lot nicer than those in the teachers lot

Lots of AP classes offered i don't even know how many.

There are your jocks, your japs, your thug wannabes, your GQs (oh yes), your punks-oh wait everyone thinks they're punk right about now, the asians who make up the smart group, and other non asian smarties. For an upper middle class town i'd say there are a lot of people who do pot and its not always the people you'd expect


As for diversity there are a lot of asians, indians, jews (that would be me), some african americans, mostly white though.

As for hardworkers the people in honors and ap are most of the hardworkers though there are some in regular classes who work. Even in the honors classes there are slackers.

By Mahras (Mahras) on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 11:33 pm: Edit

Here's a look at my school

-Public/Coed (God bless us all!!!)
-Super- selective (6%acceptance rate)
-about 2700 kids (not overcrowded/ supposed to be large)
-Math and Science magnets
-70%Asian couple of whites, hispanics and blacks
-Sends 1/2 students to Ivy or other selective schools
-New York Metro
-Gotta give a test to get in (about 25000 kids try out!!!)
-Quite a few super anime fans, no distict separation between popular and the non. Couple of excellent sports teams.
-All SATs higher that 1250 or you are lost.

That's pretty much it....

By Kewkiekid (Kewkiekid) on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 12:12 am: Edit

public
large
~3750 students this past year
extremely overcrowded
southern California (THE valley)

students of every type. some are affluent, about half the students are bussed in from bad areas.

only about 300 students go on to 4 year colleges, most go to community college (if at all)

average SAT score 1100.

offers almost all AP classes (no Latin or world history) but not all are offered every year, it depends on demand.

we have no money for academics or ECs. all the money goes to football and baseball (we've had one of the top baseball teams in the nation the last 2 years)

By Antithesis (Antithesis) on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 12:51 am: Edit

The student body of my HS is homogeneous, apathetic, anti-intellectual, and can be found puking on their lawns every Friday & Saturday night.

Statistics:
Basics: Suburban & public
Size: 820 students (from two neighboring towns)
Average SAT: 900 (400V, 500M)
% of Graduates to College: 86 (74% in-state)
APs: 16 (sadly unappreciated by most students)

As noted in the satire/political zine I write with my friends, the social structure at our school appears different from that of most institutions.
The athletes and their adoring followers (generally referred to as "preps") comprise a large part of the student body, and generally keep to themselves (and never leave town).
The so-called "overachievers" are the 4.0-1800-Key Club President-Tennis All-Stars. The resumé builders who seem utterly insincere about helping people, learning, or anything that cannot be put on a brag sheet.
Aside from the aforementioned groups, there are no strict cliques; unless the "intellectual lunch table" created by my friend Matt and I could be considered a clique.

Random fact about AHJFRHS: The football team receives more funding each year than the entire science department. I wish I was joking.
Sarah

By Midnightdanzer (Midnightdanzer) on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 05:41 am: Edit

*Southern California
* About 300 students
* All girls
* Roman Catholic
* Mostly upper middle class to very affluent
* about 10 APs?
* Lots of emphasis on the arts
* Strict discipline is upheld
* The majority of students are of either Asian ethnicity or White, but there are Latinos and Blacks as well...the school prides itself on diversity.
* Pretty boring atmosphere...i mean everybody is different in their own way, but there is none of the excitement or chaos of super huge public schools...and it is impossible to NOT know somebody in your class...while at public schools there's half a thousand kids in one grade!
* Everyone is pretty friendly and laid back, typical California attitudes...you'd think that with all the estrogen, there'd be nothing but loads of cat fights and gossip...but it's relaly not like that. It's a quiet, but enjoyable atmosphere...people save their "wild" sides for the weekend parties (where BOYS are around LoL)

By Nyprincess (Nyprincess) on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 04:13 pm: Edit

*about 3000 students
*The Bronx(NYC)
(very urban)
*Very smart hs in nyc
*Everyone goes to 4yrcollege
*About 50 go to ivys
many go to the SUNY's
*30% white
48% asian/indian
the rest black,hispanic, and all the other races
*we don't have jocks/no football team/no lacrosse
*the good sport team is our swimming team and we don't even have a pool. we borrow other school's pool
*very few ppl have cars/ 85% take the train or bus
*The students come the bronx, brooklyn, queens(like me), manhattan,hardly anyone from staten I
*WE have the punks,the ghetto ppl, the goth,alot of nerds. But everyone knows each other
*Some rich ppl/upper east and west side
*but middle class and lower class

By Ali_Liu (Ali_Liu) on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 06:53 pm: Edit

Thank god i am moving to a better school!

By Evil_Robot (Evil_Robot) on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 07:07 pm: Edit

*Suburban Southern California, coed
*2200 students
*450 in senior class (some leave before then)
*Magnet school - a little over half the school is in the magnet program, the rest are from the district (not very smart)
*IB program for the kids smarter than the kids in the magnet school (can do both simultaneously).
*Known for academics - we win Science Olympiad nationals almost every year and compete in various other events like ACSL, Science Bowl, etc at the national level. About 3-4 Intel semifinalists a year, with maybe 1-2 finalists and a few Siemens Westinghouse competitors.
*Average SAT schoolwide: V 585, M 629
*Average SAT magnet kids: V 615, M 661
*Average SAT IB kids: V 684, M 723
*About 50 or so National Merit Finalists a year.
*Maybe 5-10 kids go to Ivies/Stanford/MIT/etc every year
*Most go to UC system or CSU system
*20 AP classes offered
*More AP Computer Science tests taken than the entire state of Arizona :-D. About 2% of the world's 5s in that subject...Overall AP pass rate is about 90%
*Fairly nerdy
*40% White, 40% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 4% Filipino, 2% Black

By Entropy (Entropy) on Saturday, August 23, 2003 - 05:49 pm: Edit

Number 9:

"While there arent many black kids at my school (about 2), about a majority of the regular kids act black. Someone made a rap group even, they didnt release anything..."

>> People cannot act "black". Black people do not act a certain way, although alot of young black people are try to mimic the people they see on TV, and those stand out more than the others. Black people are people just like any other group of people, they have their own minds, personalities, opinions. I believe you want to describe the people of your school as parasites of the "pseudo" hip hop culture that is portrayed on MTV, BET, and those stupid movies (i.e. Bringing Down The House, Marci X)

By Number9 (Number9) on Saturday, August 23, 2003 - 07:34 pm: Edit

*Stereotypically black.

By Hotkoko123 (Hotkoko123) on Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 03:35 am: Edit

- Private.
- NYC.
- All-girls.
- Not as diverse as it wants to be (but our new headmistress is black)
- K-12. About 250 students in the upper school.
- There are preppies, people who are really spoiled, punks, goths...but mainly preps.
- Only about 2 AP courses offered, but I think that the school tells colleges that the classes are college level.
- Mostly overachievers (at least my grade, every grade is different) but there are a few slackers in each grade and a couple people who don't work hard but are really incredibly smart.

College Entrance
1999-2003
Total College Applicants
219
American University 2
American University of Paris 1
Amherst College 4
Bard College 4
Barnard College 5
Bates College 4
University of California, Berkeley 1
Boston College 1
Bowdoin College 2
Brandeis University 1
Brown University 10
Bryn Mawr College 3
Carleton College 4
Case Western Reserve 1
Clark University 1
Colby College 2
Colgate University 3
Colorado College 1
Columbia University 3
Connecticut College 2
Cornell University 5
Dartmouth College 10
Davidson College 3
Drew University 1
Duke University 4
Emory University 1
Eugene Lang College 1
Franklin & Marshall College 1
George Washington University 2
Georgetown University 5
Hamilton College 3
Hampton University 1
Harvard College 15
The Johns Hopkins University 3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
Middlebury College 1
New York University 1
Northwestern University 1
Oberlin College 8
Oxford University 1
Pomona College 4
Pratt Institute 1
Princeton University 7
Rutgers University 1
Sarah Lawrence College 3
University of St. Andrews (Scotland) 1
Stanford University 4
SUNY Binghamton 1
SUNY Oneonta 1
Swarthmore College 5
Syracuse University 1
Trinity College 1
Tufts University 2
Tulane University 2
United States Military Academy 1
University of Chicago 10
University of Miami 1
University of Pennsylvania 5
University of Virginia 1
Vanderbilt University 1
Vassar College 5
Wesleyan University 7
Williams College 6
Xavier University, OH 1
Yale University 24

By Nyu2010 (Nyu2010) on Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 11:30 am: Edit

-1,200 kids
-Very public
-Co-ed
-Mostly slackers, most go to the CC or to local cheap universities
- No one takes AP'S, about four people per AP class.
-Kids are VERY POOR, lunches are going to be free this year due to the fact that nearly everyone got free lunches anyway.
Best Universities Kids of 'O3 entered:
Boston U
Wesleyan
American U
Temple
and one crazy mofo went to Harvard, but everyone else just went to Allentown Business School or NCC (comm college).

Some kids are actually very impressive but underestimate themselves and apply to bad places. No one's very knowledgeable, they think you don't have to take Sat II's unless you "know what you're gonna do when you grow up, har dee har."

By Gallopinto (Gallopinto) on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 01:31 am: Edit

My school
Location: suburban upper-middle class in OR
Population: 95%white. 5% everything else ( by the way i'm asian)
~2000 students.
Ave SAT: probably 1100.
NOT DIvERSE! preps, jocks, potheads, geniuses.
Most go to 4 year universities, but to the state universities. (UofO, OSU)

~5 ppl went to prestigious schools last year.
About 10 AP's offered. Not much... but then again, most people don't even bother with the APs.
Can't wait 'till college!

By Darling714 (Darling714) on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 12:46 pm: Edit

Public or private: Public
Small/medium/large: I'd say somewhere around 1400
Urban/suburban: Suburban
Coed or single sex: Coed
NJ

First of all, I really don't like my school. Compared to others, it's like they offer NOTHING! Our average SAT score was 1100 and they only offer 7 AP classes. I've been looking at a lot of stats, and I haven't even heard of most of these clubs! (Model UN, Key Club, etc.) 98% white, 1% Hispanic, and 1% Asian (which I am - I think it's less than that though)

I'd say that there are only 5 people in my grade who actually work hard. Everyone else either doesn't try or cheat their @$$s off. And our teachers are so oblivious that they don't even notice. They think their students are SO smart...HA! (If you can't tell, I'm pissed about this) Probably only 5 students in the last ten years are attending Ivies. Half the class of 2003 is attending the Community College or not going at all.

The only good sports teams are Girls Cross Country and Boys Tennis...and well, Cheerleading. Everything else just sucks.

I can't wait to get out of this town. WHY did my parents have to move HERE?! OK, I'm done ranting. =D

By Frenchfries (Frenchfries) on Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 11:46 pm: Edit

Suburban
Coed
New Jersey
Public
1400 Students
1000ish SAT average
Block scheduling
Around 12 AP classes offered, for the most part only seniors are allowed to take them
Some of the students are apathetic, some care enough to get Bs, there are about 20 pretty smart students per grade.
In the past two years, the top 2 students went to Williams, the Naval Academy, Penn State and NYU. The rest of the smart kids go to Rutgers, TCNJ and other NJ colleges. Around 45% go to 4 year colleges, another 35%ish percent go on to community college.
Mostly white upper middle class, but Asians, African Americans, Hispanics and Indians don't feel out of place.
Football and cheerleading are the most important sports. Others are ok too, but no one cares about cross country or golf.
I've never gone to another high school, but I think mine is somewhat ghetto, maybe due to budget problems.

By A87 (A87) on Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 07:57 pm: Edit

My school has the worst reputation in the district, and probably beyond. And that reputation is justified with its gangs and whatnot.

35% Hispanic, 15% Filipino, 15% Asian, 5% black, 25% white...something like that.

Administrators hate helping students (unless parents are nearby). Almost impossible to get the schedule you want.

"Sorry, there's no space in Calculus AP."
"Can't you just put another desk in the class?"
"It doesn't work that way."
"Oh...oh well...I'll just take Foods 1."

We use a block system, 4 blocks one semester, 3 blocks the next semester (each block 1.5 hours).

The school is under heavy contstruction (and will remain so for eternity). Half of the school has no ground, so you have to walk on dirt and rocks to get to class (luckily none of my classes are there), and the small fenced walkways make it VERY crowded. Most classes have construction noise in the background, sometimes the entire class vibrates.

I hate my school with a passion, the people, some of the teachers (most are pretty decent, some are great), and ALL of the administrators (unless my Mom is with me). And yet I am the founder of a club that aims to improve the school. Why do I care so much?!

By Valencia (Valencia) on Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 11:40 pm: Edit

My school:
-Magnet school rated somwhere in the top 3 schools in the city
-Chicago
-2000 students 9-12, 200 7-8th graders (affectionately known as ackies)
-30% black, 25% white, 20% latino, 19% asian
-About 22 APs offered
-You can take Honors in any grade, and APs as long as you have fulfilled the requirements
-Grades 9-12 have off campus lunch (sweet!)

A lot of people are hardworking, but then again a lot aren't. Pretty much every social niche is represented here but everybody is cool with everybody, as far as I know. Kids from other schools says mine is Harry Potter-ish. There are 4 houses: red, gold, green, and blue. Gold house has the coolest and most good-lookingest people (Me? Biased? Nahh). Red house has the worst food. 99.99% of Asians are genii and masters at DDR and that glowsticky spinny stuff. A few kids sell/do drugs and even come to school reeking of the stuff. Some teachers are great, and some are complete jagoffs. There seems to be very little middle ground.

By Geniusash (Geniusash) on Sunday, August 31, 2003 - 01:03 am: Edit

Minnesota Suburb
95%White
Rich kids or Farmers
Expensive Cars
Lots of Drugs
No Violenc
Lots of Sex
Girls here are kind of whorish
2000 kids, crowded
Good Forensics team

Great Math teachers, science teachers here are insane

By Dkm (Dkm) on Sunday, August 31, 2003 - 04:12 pm: Edit

international skool of geneva, switzerland
totally international..like 170 countries repersented...mainly caz the UN has HQ here..
9-13, IB program, coed,all rich kids, costs $30, 000 a year(more expensive than most uni's...teachers suck like hell..u get wat u pay for
like 100 kids per grade
most r spoiled rich bastards who cant even pass the year, but still do caz their parents r filthy rich and bribe the skool
good area, good thing is u meet ppl from all around the world..quite a good skool if u discount the education they give and all the costs

By Dkm (Dkm) on Sunday, August 31, 2003 - 04:31 pm: Edit

by 13th grade most dumbasses drop out...some r damn smart, even smarter than me..average SAT(only smart ppl take it) is V720 M750
its a private skool..only very very very rich ppl can enter..most ppl go there caz their parent's company pays the fees(like me) or else noboby is crazy to pay $30 000/year for a high skool

By Anya (Anya) on Monday, September 01, 2003 - 12:37 am: Edit

my old school was K-12, 89 students total, 30 in the high school. Once the freshman class consisted of 2 people. It was a co-ed private school built on a former horse ranch (70 acres in the middle of nowhere, on a hill, surrounded by woods and crazy neighbors with spiked pitbulls) that used to be THE place to get an education, and somehow morphed into the rich parent's last resort when their kids were banned from ever attending public school ever again. I went there for middle school (my parents still considered it a good school).

The high school I actually go to: 1800 kids, public, co-ed, severely lacking funds, the dominant culture is counter-culture; the most largely populated stereotypes are the punks/goths and the hippies, followed not so closely by skaters, and trailed by the handful or so preps and thug-wannabes. Music of choice is any breed of rock, mainly garage band variety... Conservatives are severely in the minority, I've known 2 self-pronounced Republicans in 3 years. It's fun. Not very diverse ethnically, but this is suburban Oregon so what'd you expect. Slackers are actually pretty rare, although most people do go on to state schools or ccs, we do have a handful of Ivy Leaguers every year.

By Firedup17 (Firedup17) on Monday, September 01, 2003 - 02:30 pm: Edit

My school:

...one word...

bleh!

By Istalam (Istalam) on Monday, September 01, 2003 - 08:41 pm: Edit

Don't know much of my new school (starts tommorow) but i have an intersted bio of my school of 3 years.

School in Wilmington,DE
-According to Harvard/ND study (third toughest in country)
-Catholic under the gentleman Saint Francis de Sales
-person that found our school is now a saint
-Single Sex-male
-Extremely Affluent (ironic how they all act gangsta)
-98% white handful african american, im the only indian, and there are two or three chinese
-1100 student population
-99% go on to college (only 1 a year that doesnt)
-New 13 million dollar science wing
-Tons of kids go to Notre Dame (its scary)
-Ivy's here and there
-Uva and william and mary out of state
-Top three Model Un school forever (we havent lost in 2 years (bout 15-20 meets with 20 or more schools))
-Always top five swim team in country
-State champs in soccer (real real good)
-Cross coutnry (something like last 22 state championships)
-same with winter and spring tack
-Extremely cocky kids that think they are God's gift, last year matched with a Valedictorian taht truly was a gentleman (great guy).

By Ml41588 (Ml41588) on Monday, September 01, 2003 - 09:23 pm: Edit

istalam...how do u have 'ivys here and there' if your school is the third toughest in the country?

By Dkm (Dkm) on Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 11:41 am: Edit

u have no girls in ur skool...sorry but that sux..i would never go there

By Istalam (Istalam) on Tuesday, September 02, 2003 - 04:26 pm: Edit

Umm the reason being is cuz alot of the smarter kids Go to Notre Dame that get admitted to Ivy's for some reason lol. And umm alot know ivy's aren't everything, for example last years valedictorian turned down Harvary and Yale for College of William and Mary. Umm and the smart kids that dont care about tradition at Notre dame end up going to Caltech/rice/mit/cmu.

So every year we get bout 5-6 at the ivies. Even though others get in. And trust me even though we were labeled "third toughest high school" i doubt it so.

Even then its still a nice school. And dkm lol i didnt want to go. But when i went i liked it

By Bamagirl (Bamagirl) on Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 11:40 pm: Edit

very small
250 4k-12
7seniors
rural alabama
catholic
you dont go to public school in my town unless you just cant afford private. the public schools are the worst in the state, a state already ranked 47th in the nation
we're all pretty bright average act like 24 although mine is 30 everyon is kind of wealthy too

By Cmaher (Cmaher) on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 04:06 am: Edit

70% Asian, mostly Chinese

Most care about grades somewhat, want to get into a UC..

The others don't give a crap about anything and I wonder why they are even in high school.

By Greatsurgeon (Greatsurgeon) on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 10:03 am: Edit

Department of Defense Military School in the Republic of Korea: Osan American High School

around 300 kids 7-12. graudating class of 40, seniosrs!!! hahaha i have the highest sat score and gpa in the school... 1450/4.1 which is pretty sad, mostly military kids, or contractor's kids... probably 70% amerasian 25% white 1% black 1% hispanic 3% korean... not too diverse;)

By Gianscolere (Gianscolere) on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 12:41 pm: Edit

hey istalam...do you have the list of the top 10 schools that are considered to be toughest in the country...i just really want to know. thanks!

By Istalam (Istalam) on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 03:34 pm: Edit

Actually right now i don't but let me ask my guidance counselor at my old school. It will take a day. But i'll get it.

By Stuyalum (Stuyalum) on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 03:45 pm: Edit

Anyone know the cutoff scores for Stuyvesant and Bronx Science (NYC) for the past few years?

By Gianscolere (Gianscolere) on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 05:16 pm: Edit

ok thanks istalam.

by the way, what's the name of your school?

By Magoo112 (Magoo112) on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 05:46 pm: Edit

Population: 5405 (2003-2004)
Location: Elizabeth, NJ
Number of buildings: 5

I would say there are about 100 really smart students in our school. The rest of them, 5305, are all too preoccupied with being "ghetto" and "gangsta"... They come to school because they are forced to. The new school policy is that 1 day of supspension = 1 day of absence. 18 days of absence = no credits awarded. Seems like a lot of people are going to stay back this year

By Mazzystar (Mazzystar) on Thursday, October 16, 2003 - 05:26 pm: Edit

My school in northern Kentucky:
Private, medium sized all girls school
In urban location, but most students from suburban area.
Ranges from upper middle class to the very affluent. Only about 15% or so on financial aid.
Tuition: Around $7,000
Number of Students: Around 1,000

We may all deny it, but we're preps at heart.There's a mix of people, mostly white kids, but then the small percentage of minorities ( Me included)
Most popular type of music: Geez..rap,punk rock,oldies.
Pop. of slackers: Almost everyone is. You really don't have to be that smart to get in here. There's the few of us who do have brains, but seriously you can be dumb as a stick and still get in.
Most kids come from Catholic grade schools. As long as your from a Catholic grade school and have the money, your in.

By Ryuukami (Ryuukami) on Saturday, October 18, 2003 - 09:22 am: Edit

-Magnet School
-3rd in State
-Too small (only a population of about 400-450 each year..prob even less than that)
-Graduating class of usually 100-.
-One kid every so often has extremely high GPA's...by that I mean a near 100 average. (Don't take this the wrong way...my school is EXTREMELY hard)
-Once every 3-5 years we have a kid go off to an IVY (Harvard.)
-Once every 3-5 years we have a kid to score a near perfect score on the AHSME.
-We have several AP's, but not enough.
-We have a School-Work program where you can get out of school for half a day and work with a company (SRS= Savannah River Institute, i think, lol...sad...i don't even know for sure) Pays $8.00 an hour so I think that is good.
-With all this going on, no one really gives a sh!t about school. Except a very few group of kids. Diverse, and we don't tend to have 'groups,' although we do have the group of kids which we hang around with most of the time.
-Oh yeh....no record of every having any fights, no charges of bringing weapons onto school ground, except when this stupid-ass freshman a month ago jokingly said he was going to blow up the school. He got caught and is going to attend tri-bunal. It was bound to happen to him sooner or later.

By Korey (Korey) on Sunday, October 19, 2003 - 02:40 pm: Edit

public, medium-large(apprx. 1000 students), POOR, located off in some little town that nobody knows about, lol

By Wickedpriest (Wickedpriest) on Sunday, October 19, 2003 - 09:26 pm: Edit

anybody i know, Stuy?

By May_1 (May_1) on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 12:59 am: Edit

--Suburban CA Math/Science Magnet School
--2nd in State
--40% Azn, 30% Hispanic, 15% Black, 13% White, 2% Other
--population of 700-800
--graduating class of ~140
--99.6% of graduating seniors attended 4-year U immediately after high school
--Typically 5 to 7 seniors go to Ivies + MIT + Stanford
--Craploads go to Berkeley and UCLA; I'd even say up to 50% of the senior class
--only a few APs, but we do get the opportunity to take Cal State U classes
--A well-connected and dedicated summer internship program that gets rising juniors and seniors into architectural, engineering, and marketing firms and many students into summer programs across the country
--typically 3 or 4 make it to Intel ISEF every year; about 9 or 10 make it to CA state science fair every year.
--no violence ever; drug use on campus is nonexistent, but off campus is done socially; ditto for alcohol; sex is rampant, but kept hush-hush; a few years ago two seniors were caught in one of the classrooms.
--Competition is isn't fierce in so much as there are the perfectionists (hard workers with 4.0s), the lazy intelligents (actual smart people who are lazy as hell, and manage to scrape by with 3.6-3.9), and those that fall into neither group, not smart enough to make up for the laziness or not hardworking enough to make up for their relative dullness (<3.2)

By Ratserutuf (Ratserutuf) on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 05:26 pm: Edit

well, my school is located in chicago, near the south suburbs. it's like 80% black, with a noticable white population, and just a handfull of hispanics, asains, native americans. It's considered one of the best chicago public schools. we win alot of the city championships in alot of sports. some of the students are extremely intelligent, others are not. I want say that there's a particular kind of music we listen to, because everyone have their own tastes. All and all it's a pretty descent school with an enrollment of about 2250.

By Infamousx (Infamousx) on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 10:38 pm: Edit

public school in suburban georgia (NE of atlanta)

* average SAT - 1066
* about 2000 students or so
* over 53 countries represented
* 60 languages spoken
* national school of excellence
* redbook magazine's 1 of the 140 best public schools in the nation and 1 of the 16 best academically
* some sports excellence
* academic team ranked 8 in nation at national tournament
* HUGE orchestra.. many awards and recognitions
* yearbook is used each year as a national marketing sample
* 93% of seniors attending post-secondary schools
* 747 AP exams taken - 68% 3 or higher
* 57.8% white, 19.5% asian, 11.8% african-american, 9.6% hispanic, 1.3% multiracial
* $3.25 million offered to DHS class of 2002 (excluding HOPE)
* 162 seniors in Advanced Placement courses
* 98% of seniors taking SAT
* about 20+ AP courses offered

By Infamousx (Infamousx) on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 10:39 pm: Edit

public school in suburban georgia (NE of atlanta)

* average SAT - 1066
* about 2000 students or so
* over 53 countries represented
* 60 languages spoken
* national school of excellence
* redbook magazine's 1 of the 140 best public schools in the nation and 1 of the 16 best academically
* some sports excellence
* academic team ranked 8 in nation at national tournament
* HUGE orchestra.. many awards and recognitions
* yearbook is used each year as a national marketing sample
* 93% of seniors attending post-secondary schools
* 747 AP exams taken - 68% 3 or higher
* 57.8% white, 19.5% asian, 11.8% african-american, 9.6% hispanic, 1.3% multiracial
* $3.25 million offered to DHS class of 2002 (excluding HOPE)
* 162 seniors in Advanced Placement courses
* 98% of seniors taking SAT
* about 20+ AP courses offered

By Esotericstorm (Esotericstorm) on Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 10:08 am: Edit

Hmmm...
1700 students (99% caucasian)
Best in state for academics and sports
no air condition- HOT HOT HOT (average temp per room is normally 87)
no permanent rooms for teachers (not enough space)
not enough parking for seniors
bad food, rotten and/or frozen milk
most kids end up at the local university, only about 20 per year actually go somewhere else (those ones go to harvard, stanford, etc)
10 APs offered
block scheduling
16 national merits this past year
75 year old school= run down buildings, no money for upgrade

and that's pretty much my highschool in a nutshell

By Laceycheer (Laceycheer) on Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 06:47 pm: Edit

Over 3,000 students, Public.

A lot of acacemic competition.

Sports- revoles around the terrible football team.

Great girls soccer, bowling.

Weightlifting (on varsity ) is good

Cheerleading (me on V again!) - NATIONAL champs 3 times in past 6 years.

Lots of AP, block scheduling, IB students can have 10 classes a year.

dual enrollment, online courses

6A, A+ school, located in Florida

diverse students, not alot of racial issues, get along fairly well

The soc groups kind of bleed into one another...

like, Im a nerdy-prep-athletic girl

my bf prides himself as a movie/rock weirdo-prep lol

By Theplaymaker (Theplaymaker) on Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 10:22 pm: Edit

International private school in Colombia (k4-12th). 1500 students in total, 360 in high school I think it is. About 55% men-45% women. The school is located on a mountain (what else in Bogota?) and is a very academically challenging. 69 people in my graduating class and the valedictorian has a GPA of 93%, no weighted stuff or watever. Average SAT...1054? How sad that a Colombian school's average SAT is higher than the U.S. SAT. I got a 1300 if anyone cares. Women are damn hot and colombians are the greates people in the world. (Not only do i say this because Im Colombian myself, but I've also lived in 6 countries and 4 continents).

By Vegangirl (Vegangirl) on Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 11:04 pm: Edit

public arts school in Denver, CO
Grades 6-12
Students ~800, about 450 high school
acceptance by audition only to one of eight art majors- theatre, dance, vocal music, instrumental music (band, orchestra, or piano), technical theatre (stagecraft and design), cinematography, visual arts, and creative writing.
For most majors acceptance is very competitive. For instance, in my major, creative writing, 90+ people auditioned for 8 spots last spring. Of course, we're one of the smallest majors and there are *a lot* of people out there who think, "oh, I get As in English class, that must mean I'm a good writer," so the applicant pool is somewhat diluted. Still, what we basically have at my school is a lot of kids who want to be there. It's pretty cool.
ACT average: 22.5
Highest middle/high school test scores in denver public schools
Winner of Kennedy's Center's "Creative Ticket National School of Distinction" award.
95% of graduates attend college, many go to lesser known liberal arts colleges, Colorado University, or conservatories. Every once in a while someone goes to HYP or Juliard.
Only four APs, academics not superior (I take two honors classes which operate exactly like normal level classes except that the A starts at a 93% instead of 90)

By Ali_Liu (Ali_Liu) on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 08:13 pm: Edit

hahaha!!!!!....
My high school is:

-fun
-loving
-great!!!
-more guys than girls
-hard school (by that i mean strict)
-2500 kids
-1 AP ---i no it's sad
-full IB program
-french immersion and all that other stuff..
-stuff i can't think of
-first in BC for math and 2nd in Canada
-other stuff i can't remember=)

By Istalam (Istalam) on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 10:25 pm: Edit

btw i love how every school is the best in state/country for something...
I mean i'm not dissing some schools, but come on.

By Useatoothbrush (Useatoothbrush) on Saturday, November 01, 2003 - 11:48 pm: Edit

- 1400 students this year--HUGE freshman class came. 351 seniors, 329 ranked.
- 25-75 SAT for '03 was 530-650V, 520-670M. Mean SAT was 586V, 601M.
- unweighted 4.0 grading system with A=4.0, A-=3.7, B+=3.3, B=3.0...and so forth.
- 7 valedictorians last year (4.0 all 8 semesters)
- one of the top public schools in Washington state by state testing standards (and the top public in WA if you throw out the skewed averages because some 30 kids boycotted the WASL last year and were counted as failing, or so the local paper claimed today)
- 4 semifinalists this year, 16 commended (both of these down from last year)
- 7 AP classes offered regularly (English, Calc AB, Phys B, Chem, Bio, Euro, Gov), honors classes in math and 9/10 English
- 70% go to a 4 year school, 22% to a 2 year school
- two kids to Ivies, lots more to strong LACs, a lot avoiding the UW for some reason
- 90.9% white, 4.6% Asian/Pacific Islander, 2.2 % Hispanic, 1.3% Black, 1.1% Native American
- 0.9% dropout rate annually, 90.1% four-year graduation rate
- located in an affluent, liberal community of about 20,000 in Puget Sound
- younger students dress like cheap teen magazine models, older students look like collegiate bums (all the guys grow their hair long, people come to school in pajamas and sweatshirts, thrift shopping is very popular)
- very high drinking and marijuana use rates (bored rich kids with former hippie parents = the only thing to do and easy to get away with)
- permissive administration (for the most part)
- relaxed atmosphere
- relatively crappy athletics because we're in a league with Catholic private schools that can recruit--with the exception of a couple great x-c runners, a nationally-ranked swimmer, and the boys' lacrosse and water polo teams (#1 and #2 instate, respectively)
- extracurricular offerings are nothing special, nobody can do any research or science olympiads
- cheerleaders/football players are more of a joke than anything else
- several cliques but lots of interaction between them, not really a defined "popular" group
- lots of really motivated kids trying to get into Stanford (nearly 10% of seniors are applying!), but LACs are extremely popular too, a lot of kids wanting to major in bio/environmental science or history
- weird rotating 6 period schedule with 2 hour long classes four of the five days
- overall student body is liberal, but most of the intellectual students are split between radical and deeply conservative

By Tsukinoai (Tsukinoai) on Sunday, November 02, 2003 - 04:42 pm: Edit

My school:
Boston Latin SChool
1st public school in america
2400+ kids
grades 7-12
exam school
best school in boston, MA supposedly
#1, i think, in state exam-MCAS until the class of 2006 messed up.
tons of homework
sleep-deprived
kids try to sleep standing up on subways
diverse
a lot of clubs/organizations
people so freakishly smart that those with 4.0 GPA don't even get to be ranked along with the top 10% of the class.
valedictorians get about 4.7 or 4.8 GPAs
no paper
rotating 6-day schedule.
great student body
has projectors worth thousands of bucks each and teachers don't even know how to use them
dress code? "Will Ms. Kelley approve"
expensive chandelier in the new art wing while the school is starved for simple supplies such as paper.
school senior pictures cost about $126
yearbook: $90 (with pix only of seniors)
we call the cafeteria, "the dining hall"

By T2opine (T2opine) on Sunday, November 02, 2003 - 11:49 pm: Edit

Wow, I could only imagine what over 1000 pein a class is like. There are about 500 people in my 6-12 public high school in the Philadelphia suburbs (it's actually across the river from Trenton, NJ, and that's reflected in the ethnic diversity of our student body). We don't even have AP classes.

By Jennyzsong (Jennyzsong) on Monday, November 03, 2003 - 08:23 pm: Edit

Public 'gifted' school + regional high school in one. pop 1500+ ish, built during the cold war in an E shape, very harsh looking, built so that it could be converted into a factory should a war break out at the time (lol)

ottawa, ontario canada, rugby over football (although we have a team, the football players are considered wimps over the rugby players), #1 track team in west LAST YEAR (this year fourth or something), semestered 2-day schedule, no AP or honours but 'gifted' courses instead, grades 9-12.5 (a lot of people left over from grade 13, quite a few actually)

too many thug wannabes.

no jocks, no cheerleaders, very multicultural.

By Worth2try (Worth2try) on Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 07:30 pm: Edit

Magnet
2800 kids
This years senior class so far has 30 semifanilists
45% percent asian 35% white the rest are black and hispanic, okay maybe 1% Native American
Urban
Very diverse culturally
80 clubs (about)
every student is involved in 1-2 activities
we have a lot of sports, almost every sport
GIRLS SWIMMING CHAMPIONS IN NYC!
acceptance is based on a very competitive exam
constantly collects money from students
students are just a bit college crazy

By Jimster0489 (Jimster0489) on Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 12:04 am: Edit

* Public, magnet, selective enrollment HS
* Ranked #1 public HS in the state of Illinois
* in the city of Chicago
* 2000 kids
* School is only 5 years old
* People are freakishly hardworking and smart. People with 4.0 GPAs are below the 50th percentile in class
* Valedictorian (2003) went to Princeton
* A ton of kids go to UIUC, Northwestern, or the U of Chicago
* 50% white, 30% asian, 10% hispanic, 10% black
* Many of our students come from local Catholic and private schools.
* We have a very affluent community of Abercrombie lovers, Ecko-Mecca-Sean John is my life people, goth-let-me-die-now people, "hardcore" punk rockers, etc.. it's very diverse
* Very liberal
* Great administration - we're allowed to order out for lunch from local restaurants and practically wear and express our ways in any way we deem to do so
* Almost everyone plays a sport
* Lacrosse, volleyball, and basketball are prominent sports

By T2opine (T2opine) on Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 11:11 pm: Edit

Jimster, would you happen to go to New Trier High School???

By Jr86 (Jr86) on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 04:49 pm: Edit

wow, i can honestly say after reading this, my school is not THAT bad..
well, actually, u be the judge

*Public
*NJ- urban (ghetto)
*5000-6000 students
*4 buildings
*most are poor, some lower middle class
*average SAT- about 750
*mostly hispanics(about 50%)and blacks (30%) whites r the minority (15%) and asians (5%)
*religions vary but most are christian/catholic, a few muslims, very few jews, a few devil worshippers
*AP's offered- 7 (chem,bio,usHistory,english,comp sc,music,cal) ppl taking them- 8%,
*honors in everything except chem, physics, and pre-cal
*PPl going to college- 20%
the other 80 drop out or just dont go to college
*mostly "thugs", "ghetto" ppl, very few preps (one/30 right here), a lot of rockers/goths, but not too many punk
*lots of drug dealers and gangs
*ppl get drunk, smoke weed n have sex, but theres basically no party scene unless ur in a gang or want to risk getting shot
*the preps have to go to surrounding "suburbs" to do the aforementioned stuff, if theyre lucky enough to own a car and know ppl around there
*the roughly 30 kids that have cars mostly drive hoopties, with the exception of a few lucky ones
*of the kids that go to college and dont drop out, most go to community college, smart ones go to Rutgers, a few dedicated students go to Columbia, NYU, Princeton, etc...
* vast array of after school activities and clubs (surprisingly), great marching band, drama, footbal to an extent, forensics, the honors societies, etc...we have everything, but few take advantage
*no real "popular" clique, theres the quintessential groups: the drama geeks, the band geeks, the jocks, the cheerleaders, the nerds, except no one is really a geek or a nerd, because there are just too many ppl for there to really be a unified opinion, i dont even know 90% of the ppl in this school.

By Leejwwc (Leejwwc) on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 11:51 pm: Edit

I go to Nova High School
Davie, FL (suburban Fort Lauderdale)

It used to be like the #6 best HS in the US according to US News rankings for Student:AP ratio, but has since fallen short to like beyond 100th mark. It is a very unique school, for there are like 15 ppl competing for valedictorian, and basically the ppl after rank 100 are all slackers, ghetto ppl, stupid ppl, etc.

The crazy thing is that a person with a 4.7 W GPA ranks near 40 at Nova!!!

By Jr86 (Jr86) on Sunday, November 09, 2003 - 09:32 pm: Edit

what?! r u serious? im #32 at my school and i only have a 3.92

By Deedee (Deedee) on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 06:55 pm: Edit

I need to know some information about Governors school. What is it and what are they looking for

By Ratserutuf (Ratserutuf) on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 04:35 pm: Edit

no T2opine, Jimster was talking about Northside College Prep. I know because im always there for swimming competitions and stuff. it is 5 years old and it is considered by many as the best public hs in illinois.