<p>My daughter goes to Clements High School in Sugar Land, TX. We hear all the time that it is a very good school but we don’t have access to the school’s profile. I would like to know if this school is considered as a good school for out of state colleges etc.</p>
<p>Hi Clements. Far NW Harris County here. </p>
<p>To answer your question, it depends on the university. Some of our big Houston suburban schools have decent reputations and are well regarded; but oftentimes, we are considered too big and too focused on extracurriculars (meaning athletics) to ever swim in the same academic pond with a St. Mark’s (Dallas) or a St. John’s/Strake. In general, with respect to big Houston publics, best for students to focus on taking the most academically stringent coursework available and doing well in that work.</p>
<p>That’s what my daughter was told but I am not sure if she is doing good. I am not sure if getting B’s in all honors classes in this school is good. She is a smart kid but here the tests are kind of strange.</p>
<p>lol i thought this thread was gonna be about kevjumba from youtube.</p>
<p>Clements is very competitive and excellent school. If your daughter gets B’s she most likely will not end up in top 10%. That will limit her chances at-flagship school UT-Austin (unless she score fairly high on SAT). Rice is definitely out - unless she has some special hooks. She can most likely get admission to A&M. There are other state schools like UT - Dallas, UT - Arlington, UT - San Antonio and Texas Tech. I have many friends whose kids were between 11-20% of their class and they had no trouble getting accepted in out of state publics.</p>
<p>“Clements is very competitive…”<br>
lol. I have several friends who graduated from Clements with straight A’s who did not end up in the top 10%.</p>
<p>I think the OP was asking if Clement’s reputation would be meaningful to out of state colleges. I would think, to some, it would. But to Ivies or other top tiers probably not an overriding factor as much as quality of coursework, performance, ecs, etc…</p>
<p>I’m from AHS (same district), which is considered a bit less competitive. Our graduating classes rarely had a large number of students who wanted to go out of state, so it’s hard to conclude much of anything as to a reputation. It seems like 1-2 people per year would be admitted to MIT and Stanford, a few to ‘lesser ivies’ (particularly Brown and Cornell), and a number would be to WUSTL and Duke. It wasn’t uncommon for 3-5 to enroll at Rice, and more were typically admitted; most people were happy picking either UT or A&M and heading there if they were in the top 10%; otherwise picking A&M, a UT satellite campus, Baylor, or SMU. I would emphasize that the lack of students at out of state colleges probably has more to do with students not feeling motivated to leave than anything. I believe I know people at Virginia Tech and Ohio Wesleyan who were not in the top 10% at AHS; I really can’t think of many others who were below the top 10% and left the state for non-athletic reasons. My guess is that Clements fares better in admissions, but that neither is close to St. John’s - the only two students I know from there went to Princeton.</p>
<p>KarenColleges:</p>
<p>I can tell with certainty that students with straight A will end up with top 5% if not top 2%. Again I am talking about Honors classes only. You are right that it is very competitive school and it is close to impossible to get straight A in some of the classes.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for giving your opinion.</p>
<p>I could see that it’s possible that a student could be outside the top 10 (not 10%) at Clements after taking a challenging courseload with 4 years of foreign language/math/science, all APs/honors courses for required classes, etc. if the student participated in orchestra, choir, art, or theatre, because unless the weighting system has changed, those courses are 5.0 on a 6.0 scale. I was pretty close to that myself because I didn’t “make up” for the 5.0 classes by taking health/speech in summer school and taking another AP during the school year.</p>
<p>I am in middle school and might wnat to go to sugarland Clements high School, but am worried whether I can rank high enough.
Do any of you guys know what kinds of grades it takes to be in the top 5%?</p>
<p>Just an added note about the state flagships: UT’s auto admit was top 8% this year, and TAMU’s was top 10%. For some majors it’s easier to get in as a review admit than others. However, in engineering, we were told that after auto and academic admits at TAMU, review admits with a 3.8 (unweighted with high rigor) have a decent shot…after that it gets dicey. Both schools are talking about lowering the percentage for auto admits in the coming years.</p>