Does Your Child Go to a Challenging High School? (link to N.Y. Times article)

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<p>This is typical at prep schools or elite public high schools. Since many do not live near magnet schools, no wonder the private prep schools charge $35,000 each year. Since the experience is incredible and they allow need blind admission policies, many high achievers enroll there. More importantly they high schools offer more than math/science, they offer how to interact and how to think - the most important aspect in life. These high schools allow you to develop your niche early on, and puruse what an elite colleges woul allow you to do later on - just an early passion. But if a public high school offers similar curcuiculum, then it is okay to saty in home town too. </p>

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A high-level math class at Andover “is no longer a group of geeks,” a teacher says. Such classes may include students whose focus is history and international relations. </p>

<p>Dr. Watt’s students are anything but lazy. He has had to turn students away from this course — last year, only students earning a 5 or a 6 on a 1-to-6 grade scale in Physics 380 could enroll; this year, only those with a 6 got in. He also turns away applicants for his “post-A.P.” course on quantum mechanics and relativity, limited to 16. What’s more, students take the quantum mechanics in spring of their senior year, when it’s too late to impress admissions officers. “They don’t need to burnish their transcripts,” says Dr. Watt, a Harvard Ph.D. in physics who says the course is what a physics major would take sophomore or junior year. “They are just voracious.”</p>

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