"competitive" public high school

arbiter213
Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:13:03 +0000

Competetive can mean a lot of things. For it to actually matter in any way, it probably means a) Your school requires testing to get in to b) your school is ranked very high nationally. Examples of truly competitive HS’s would be New Trier in Illinois and Scarsdale HS in New York, along with the the magnet schools of NYC (Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech). If your school just seems competitive internally, it may be, but that doesn’t matter much.

And has been pointed out, if it truly is hyper competitive, the school probably doesn’t offer specific rank.