I just saw this list on MSNBC. I was curious if anyone on here actually attended any of the top 1,000 schools.

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12532678/site/newsweek/

I still have to see if my school made it.

Where's Columbine on that list. I don't see it there.

I'm sure Syosset High School is somewhere up there. I know Jericho and Cold Spring Harbor are like in the top 40 or something and those are the two neighboring school districts. Our high school was essentially the same as theirs.

This list isn't very accurate, Its only measure for how successful a school is how many students took AP tests. It doesn't even measure how well they do on the tests. I almost went to East Chapel Hill High (101) but my family moved when I was in seventh grade. Seriously though they are ranked based on a ratio of graduting seniors and students who took an AP test, this measure doesn't really mean anything.

My high school is #15. But I agree that this is an odd way to measure "best".

not a chance. my high school has made some strides in being better over the last five years, but it still has a long way to go.

Nebraska didn't have one school on that list. I don't get how Texas can have a ton of schools on that list, yet consistantly be included in the list of states with the lowest educational standards.

Sioux Falls, SD had three, which is fairly impressive.

Yeah, I went to a school with something like 1,200-1,400 students in grades 9-12. We only offered AP classes in Literature, Composition, Physics and Calculus, so I can see how we'd never make the list.
I was a little surprised that Creighton Prep and Marian Girl's School in Omaha didn't make the list.

Are they all private schools?

The three in SD were public schools, but I think a vast majority are private schools.

#36. Go tigers.

of the 4 high schools i went to, 3 shut down within 5 years of me attending them.
they all sucked.

can you say east leyden/franklin park?
anyone?

Were you in the IB program?

frankly, using AP tests to measure this stuff is bullshit. basically because school districts like jericho, cold spring harbor, mine have more people that can spend more money on taking ap tests they score. all these ranking systems are bullshit and only lead people towards making bad decisions based on shitty statistics. like me, for example, choosing to go to vanderbilt.

You guys know there are 12 pages, right?

There are plenty of public schools on there.

all the ones i've been mentioning are. i was asking about the ones in texas specifically. they're probably either private or in really rich suburbs where they are smart enough to have high taxes in order ot pay for a good education.

my kid's taking ap's this week.
totally random, i know.

my little brother is studying for that shit right now. what a bunch of hell...but if you do well so so worth it. i paid for all those with my own part time job money at the time. it didn't really save me any money as far as tuition goes but it kept me from taking shitty math and science classes and allowed me to take spanish, german, and whatever else i felt like.

oh man, i thought promethium couldn't possibly be right, but sure enough, no Neb. schools.

Alot of the public schools are specialty or Magnet schools, and a decent number of the public schools are located in exceedingly affluent areas, so they are just as exclusive as most private schools.
I'm not from Texas, California or NY, so I can't say how many of these schools are truly urban schools, but I am guessing less than 10%.

Yup.

that's what i just posted about. the new york schools on there are Long Island rich ass suburb public school which might as well be private.

yeah, all of this testing is turning out to be quite a financial racket. i mean it's got to be paid and hopefully she won't have to sit through too many crap classes if she does well. she's testing for english and history.

she already took the sat's (more ka-ching) and did pretty well. but this stuff gets expensive when thjey bunch all of the testing together. most of her friends are ap testing this week and taking the sats on saturday. everyone is very tense.

The AP program was really great for me. I took 5 of the classes and came into college as a sophmore and saved a bunch of money. I also loved the classes, I hated going to regular level classes because they were boring and taught to at a really low level. I also made a lot of really good friends becuase all the AP classes had the same kids in them.

i mean yeah, AP classes are a good idea. i support them, and took like 9 of them or something during high school. the problem is that it's a crazy financial burden.

i'm not going to get out of college any earlier because of them but i will have a double major, spend a year in France, and graduate with like 160 hours as a result.