10 Areas with Higest Achieving Students

<p>Highest achieving is impossible to rank. How do you judge achievement? Is a high upper class child who gets into Johns Hopkins achieving more than a a former homeless child who gets into UMD? Impossible to answer.</p>

<p>However, you can look for the areas with the smartest students. Self explanatory. Basically you will have the Bay area, NYC area, D.C. area, and Massachusetts. Might be missing one or two hot spots.</p>

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<p>Well this is wrong considering you left out the top area which is the D.C. metro area. And it’s funny because I actually HATE the D.C. suburb counties. Insanely pretentious and boring area IMO. I could never live there. Hopefully one day when I do get my nice fed job I can live where I am now and just commute. Only a 40 minute drive. But the richest and smartest area in the country lies around the Potomac. Don’t kid yourself. Look at the stats.</p>

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<p>the SAT attempts at the standardization of the population’s intellectual capacity, in doing so it has to devise a set of predictable categories in order to assess everyone’s strength without “bias”. The fundamental flaw here is that the underlying pattern between the individual questions can be easily broken down and exploited to optimize one’s performance on the test through a rigorous “cram session” without reflecting an individual’s intellectual capacity (here I define it as the ability to learn and to explore rather than just vomiting preprocessed information).</p>

<p>Yes, the SAT’s are “standardized”; however, no they do not ultimately accomplish what they have set out to do. Of course I’m just critical of these standardized tests as I’ve seen many bright peers of mine shot down merely because they did not exploit the weaknesses of the exam. For me, unless a person can receive 2200+ without cramming or studying for the SAT, the test will have been wasted on him/her.</p>

<p>hatersunite…I’m from a suburb of dc, so thanks for just generalize our entire area as “boring and pretentious.” Sweet assessment.</p>

<p>Maryland represent. Don’t we have the highest AP scores? And anyone who leaves out the DC suburb schools is utterly insane. Best schools in the country. </p>

<p>ChocolateBanana:
Don’t worry. I love the DC area. Are you in MD or VA?</p>

<p>In MD. MoCo–lots of good schools :)</p>

<p>I don’t have legit statistics, but I imagined we’d be up there…I think we have said all the obvious places.</p>

<p>In terms of highest individual achieving student, a large city like nyc may have more because they are so big that there are many areas within the city with intelligent kids. But as an average, places like nyc would go down also because of their size. So while nyc/boston etc have large numbers of intelligent people, they also have large numbers of lower people. Maryland/DC suburb area has the highest average in the nation.</p>

<p>Wow, is the Bay Area really considered part of the top ten? I always thought that California in general wasn’t ranked too high but perhaps I have been misinformed. I think that it depends on the area and school though.</p>

<p>Well, check out California’s PSAT semifinalist cut off score. They’re always one of the highest</p>

<p>Anything that’s really heavily populated is a given. Then you got your Bay Area (Asian hub) and can take out the South which is irrelevant in all of this.</p>

<p>Especially in math and science, not many places can beat the Bay Area students, if any.</p>

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<p>It’s true. </p>

<p>The houses look the same. The roads look the same. All the nicely manicured strip malls look the same. The towns blend into one another. I mean, the area is “nice” but it’s all very sterile.</p>

<p>There are always “micro-areas” where the demographics and parent inome self-select the high school community. In the San Francisco Bay Area it would be cities like Cupertino, Los Altos, etc. and in the Boston area cities like Newton, Lexington, etc. This repeats in many states. But on average California, for example, is below average.</p>

<p>My sense of the question is in regard to larger areas. Here, I think, the statistics are very clear. States like Iowa and Minnesota do extremely well on average. This I expect is due to a mixture of demographics and higher than average state spending on education.</p>

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<p>I can’t agree more. It’s diverse in certain way, ie. ethnically, but it’s also very, very homogeneous in other ways. </p>

<p>That being said, I’m pretty much only applying to local schools and can’t imagine living anywhere else. I love DC.</p>

<p>Okay, this whole suburban people are conforming and are in complete ennui and depression and have extramarital affairs–SO OVERBLOWN. Sorry we’re not American Beauty/Revolutionary Road/Little Children/[insert suburb movie here]. And I LOVE those movies. But it’s pretty ignorant to just label it as “pretentious” (honestly disgusting that you would just throw around that word) and “boring.” Don’t tell ME if I am bored, or if my parents are bored. Yes, YOU may be, but I don’t care. I’m not. Okay, rant done.</p>

<p>Chocolate Banana, I’m in HoCo. They’re just hating on DC. We know we’re the best.</p>

<p>Yup, Baltimoron…DC represent! (I’m in southern MD).</p>

<p>Which county?</p>

<p>Of course I can call you pretentious. The fact that you would get all pis$y over me calling the area boring is a prime example of this pretentious attitude.</p>

<p>The entire area is essentially preplanned which is boring to me and many other people. It’s neat at first but then it begins to feel like I’m in a video game world. Seriously, for those who have never been here, the D.C. suburbs are all exactly like the northern VA one featured in COD. It’s insane how little character the D.C. area has. The D.C. areas’ main positive (having the smartest people from around the country) leads to its main negative. An area of relocated people generally will lead to a bland community. Simple as that.</p>

<p>… really, I’m not/wasn’t hating on DC.</p>