<p>absolute smartest and most talented kids out there</p>
<p>There are 20 kids in my senior class alone with 2300+ SAT scores and UW GPAs of 3.95 or better. We have 30 plus honors and AP courses. We have a strong high school but there are also stronger. There are only 30,000 freshmen positions for all the top 20 colleges. Who a school considers the smartest and most talented is subjective to say the least. While we are considered a top 10 public school in a very large state we haven’t had a person accepted to a HYPS school since 2005. If you look at these schools in terms of numbers like SAT scores, national merit finalists etc., we’ve had 100 kids that would be in the top 25% of the admitted students for these schools over the same time period.</p>