For Princeton EDers - How Strong is your school?

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<p>I go to a public exam school in Boston, MA. I was just wondering how other schools compared to mine of those applying Princeton ED. Just so we have a reference point, let’s call my school very competitive and rank your schools (and stats if available). I got our stats from our school website. </p>

<p>I just want to know, since everyone in the chances forum has very competitive when describing their schools. </p>

<p>Standardized Testing for the Class of 2006<br>
SAT – 387 test-takers:<br>
75th percentile Verbal 680 Math 690 Writing 680
Mean score Verbal 620 Math 642 Writing 623
25th percentile Verbal 560 Math 590 Writing 560</p>

<p>Subject Tests: Math IC - 195 test-takers – Mean – 630
U.S. History - 176 test-takers – Mean – 667
Literature - 151 test-takers - Mean – 626
Math IIC - 108 test-takers – Mean – 686
Latin - 56 test-takers – Mean – 659
World Hist. - 51 test-takers – Mean – 664</p>

<p>National Merit Scholarship: 11 Semifinalists 48 Commended</p>

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<p>Hm. My school is a public magnet school with an IB Programme located in Miami, FL.</p>

<p>Enlisted: ~3000 students
Rank in US News Week: 13th 2005; 29th 2006
Nat’l Merit: 6 Semifinalist, 13 Commended (I think)</p>

<p>Not sure about SAT scores. I’d say my school is very competitive.</p>

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<p>My school is Livingston High School in New Jersey. We had around 40 Commended, and 10 semifinalists in this year’s senior class. Oh yeah, we’re not ranked that high though.</p>

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<p>From my school’s profile (ranked in the top 50 public schools in the US)</p>

<p>SAT I AND SAT II SCORES, CLASS OF 2005</p>

<p>SAT I</p>

<pre><code> SCORE RANGE VERBAL MATH

          75%ile                        690                             720                                

          50%ile                        610                             660

          25%ile                        540                             600



            MEAN                    612                             657

</code></pre>

<p>Total number in class: 269 </p>

<p>Total number reporting SAT I: 100%</p>

<p>SAT II</p>

<pre><code> Subject Tests: Mean

American History 684

Biology E 625

Biology M 650

Chemistry 688

Writing 688

Physics 679

Math IC 674

Math IIC 739
</code></pre>

<p>COLLEGE ATTENDANCE - CLASS OF 2005</p>

<pre><code> Higher Education 97%

                Four Year Colleges         96% 

                Two Year Colleges         1%

</code></pre>

<p>ADVANCED PLACEMENT PROGRAM PARTICIPATION</p>

<p>2004/2005 (468 students took 995 exams in May 2005)</p>

<p>Departmental approval and/or prerequisites are required for AP courses.</p>

<p>All students enrolled in AP courses are required to take the exam.</p>

<p>Subject # of Exams Taken # of 5’s # of 4’s # of 3’s</p>

<p>Art: Drawing 19 3 2 11</p>

<p>Comp. Sci. A B 10 8 1 </p>

<p>Econ MAC 1 1</p>

<p>Econ MIC 1 1 </p>

<p>English: Lit & Comp. 28 8 4 8</p>

<p>Gov’t & Pol. 1 1</p>

<p>History: US History 156 45 57 37</p>

<p>History: European History 116 47 31 25</p>

<p>Language: English 1 1</p>

<p>Language: French 33 1 5 13 </p>

<p>Language: Spanish 61 4 12 29</p>

<p>Language: Latin-Vergil 21 2 4</p>

<p>Math: Calculus AB 79 47 21 9</p>

<p>Math: Calculus BC 21 20 1 </p>

<p>Math: Statistics 50 31 10 7</p>

<p>Music Theory 14 7 3 4</p>

<p>Psychology 45 7 17 14</p>

<p>Science: Biology 87 32 37 112</p>

<p>Science: Chemistry 33 22 8 3</p>

<p>Science: Environmental Sci. 96 27 38 18</p>

<p>Science: Physics C: Mechanics 111 21 15 29</p>

<p>Science: Physics C: Elec & Mag 18 13 3 2</p>

<pre><code> TOTAL 995

                            % of total with 3 or better:  83%

</code></pre>

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<p>Magnet Public School (soon to be performing arts – next year) in Port St. Lucie, Fl that offers IB</p>

<p>We have about 3 NMSF and 6 Commended. </p>

<p>Last year, one girl was accepted to Dartmouth, another to Cornell.</p>

<p>A few years back a guy got into MIT.</p>

<p>Other than that, I’m not so sure. We’re above average, I’d say, but nothing near the cream of the crop.</p>

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<p>Public IB School in Tampa. Ranked 10th by Newsweek. Average SAT score around 1350. We had 18 national merit semifinalists and probably about 25 commended scholars with a class size of 138</p>

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<p>Public high school in new jersey. avg sat score of 1160? 2200 students, around 550 per class, very asian. i don’t have the statistics of ap scores or whatever, but we have about 20 semifinalists and 40 commended.</p>

<p>footonthehill, i think you’re in my number theory class at shp ;)</p>

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<p>5 graduating classes; ours has 20 students; 10% of all students are National Merit Semifinalists or better, 17% National Merit commended or better. In 5 years out of 72 graduates, we have gotten acceptees to Harvard, Stanford (full tuition scholarship), UVa (full tuition scholarship), USMA, USNA, the other academies, and Georgia Tech. I think we have 100% to higher education (or close). No official AP/IB curriculum, though people have taken AP tests in Calculus AB, Biology, and World History (mostly 5’s, some 4’s and maybe a couple 3’s–usually about 5 people/year, maybe 15 total or so). Big catch for the school is Junior and Senior thesis papers–written and presented before an audience (usually ~25 pages). Senior thesis has to be defended before a panel. Unfortunately, it’s a bit of an unknown, though, because it’s small, unaccredited (!), and not been around for too long.</p>

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<p>public science magnet school with ib in california. ranked in top 100 by newsweek.</p>

<p>each class is around 520-550</p>

<p>36 national semifinalists this year (c/o 2007), don’t know how many commended</p>

<p>SAT (only have old one, sorry, from about 3 years ago)
SAT I - Mean Total Score (2003-04): 1258 (California Public HS Rank: 3)
SAT I - Mean Verbal Score (2003-04): 611 (California Public HS Rank: 4)
SAT I - Mean Math Score (2003-04): 647 (California Public HS Rank: 7)</p>

<p>Mean Scores on SAT II (2003-04):
Math Level IIC – 724
Math Level IC - 640
United States History - 627
Chemistry - 646
Physics - 701
Biology M - 677
Biology E - 675
Chinese w/L - 759
Korean w/L Mean - 779
Spanish Mean - 639
English Writing - 656</p>

<p>i think we’re pretty hefty (:</p>

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<p>LOL GXING, that is so funny! You are really good at ping pong right?</p>

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<p>our school has like 34 semifinalists and i think about 80 commended students out of a class of 624</p>

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<p>Am I the only one that goes to a normal school? I feel like everyone practically has a spot reserved at an Ivy because of their magnificent school and I just gotta cross my fingers…</p>