America's Best High Schools

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That’s something [admissions folks] actually know quite a lot about, since they are looking at multiple candidates from many schools year after year, and also have the ability to track what happens to kids after they enroll. So it’s completely unlikely that any selective colleges care at all what USNWR or Newsweek think about high schools.

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<p>Quite right. Colleges have better HS information to go on. This is especially true for state universities that know most all of the high schools in their state intimately. For the student at a small HS that applies to a small college or U 1500 miles away it might be worth making sure they know HS rigor.</p>