<p>Any suggestions on how to measure the areas in the United States with the highest achieving students?! I ask, knowing that standardized tests are different depending on the area. Thanks much!</p>
<p>Probably the Bay Area and New England have the strongest students</p>
<p>average sat scores</p>
<h1>of ap tests taken and/or passed</h1>
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<p>SoCal/Orange County
CA Bay Area
Massachusetts
New Jersey
DC
New York</p>
<p>SAT scores are a bad measure as they are not “standardized” by any means. An AP exam would be more accurate since students would have to effectively learn and understand the same material to score well on the exam.</p>
<p>Take some of the top schools, like top 25 LACs/Nat’l U’s, and multiply the percentage from each state by the % from public school to get a number from public school for each state. With better data you could go deeper.</p>
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<p>it is, you know, a STANDARDIZED test… </p>
<p>anyways, as for highest-achieving students, I’d use average SAT/ACT scores, number of kids taking AP/advanced classes and their grades on AP exams… i don’t know if i would do it by what college they go to, some top students end up at “lower” colleges due to money, family, etc</p>
<p>Islander, I thought SATs are standardized. Hence, the “S” of SATs.</p>
<p>I think he was referring to the fact that the SAT’s are easier for certain demographics than others. Hence the quotes</p>
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<p>Wha? Have you ever visited D.C.? Bigger/more portentious doesn’t necessarily equate to educational perfection. </p>
<p>From my experiences there it appears to be very poor and lowly. I highly doubt that students are exceptionally intelligent there [no intentional offense directed towards D.C. natives or anything of the like]. </p>
<p>However, if by D.C. you are including the “suburbs”, which includes counties in VA and MD such as Fairfax, Loudon, Prince Georges, etc. I’d be more inclined to agree with you.</p>
<p>My place (montgomery county public schools) was rated #1 in terms of highest average ap scores by the collegeboard in the entire nation in a newsweek article a couple weeks back. Booyah MD represent.</p>
<p>washington state maybe test scores here are pretty high and same with ap classes
at least where i live.</p>
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<p>life in general is easier for certain demographics than others…</p>
<p>precisely. Highest achieving would entail achieving beyond expectations.</p>
<p>I live and go to high school in NYC and whether it’s true or not, we are consistently told that we in just about the toughest area collegewise, not necessarily because we have the highest average achievement, which we don’t as evidenced by the tons of bad to very bad public schools in the city, but because we have just about the MOST high achieving kids per capita of any area at all the elite private schools (and public including schools like Stuyvesant) making the competition intense. </p>
<p>From common perception though (as in not from experience), I’ve always heard of the greater Boston area as another big college draw location. Can’t say I’ve ever heard about the Bay Area, but that might just be an East coast bias.</p>
<p>Pretty much sums up what I’ve heard. Boston area dominates Maine LAC’s. Fairfield County, CT sends a lot of kids to elite colleges too (unsurprisingly)</p>
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<p>That sums it up pretty well. A student not in a good school can really get screwed with all the silly state exam requirements and all. The state seems to want people to do the bare minimum in terms of learning (<em>cough</em> Regents <em>cough</em>).</p>
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<p>SAT stands for Scholastic Assessment Test. The College Board claims it’s standardized, but it really isn’t.</p>
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<p>That’s probably true, as some people are more able to get a better quality education than others. In fact, some of the concepts on the SAT aren’t even taught in most high school. Seriously, how many high school students learn how to effectively write? To make things even worse, a 25-minute essay period can make or break the grade of a section. Ridiculous.</p>
<p>I don’t know anyone who takes the regents seriously.</p>
<p>And yeah, competition in NYC is definitely fiercer than the suburbs</p>
<p>NYC, Bay Area, OC/Socal, and New England seem to be the consensus.</p>
<p>Probably orange county in southern california… Not la county, la county is one of teh worst places to go to school,
trust me, i go to lausd, and they suck, well, only the local area schools, when you go to alternative schools like me, they are wayyyyyyy better!!</p>