<p>Tasty treats to anyone who can find out the quality and competitiveness of my highschool, because I sure as hell can’t.</p>
<p>Roy C. Ketcham Senior High School
Wappingers Falls, NY</p>
<p>How many students per year do you send to elite colleges?
How many APs are offered?
How well do students do on APs?
What’s the socioeconomic status of the average student?</p>
<p>No idea. How do I find out?</p>
<p>These are the kinds of things you know if you go to a school…do you have a course catalog somewhere–you can find out APs. you can use facebook or ask people to find out college stuff</p>
<p>Admissions, Graduating Class of '06:</p>
<p>Vassar College
RIT
Hofstra
Shaw University
SUNY Brockport
Clarkson University
DCC
DCC
DCC
Delhi College of Technology
SUNY Albany
Villanova University
Penn State
Hofstra University
Hofstra University
Vassar College
University of Chicago
College of Charleston
SUNY Albany
Alfred State
Dutchess Community College
Marist College
Gordon College
University of Delaware
Oswego
UNC Wilmington
UTI
Dutchess Community College
Dutchess Community College
Dutchess Community College
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
LIU Brooklyn Campus
University of Maryland
St. Thomas Aquinas
Dutchess Community College
Alfred University
Assumption
SUNY Geneseo
Syracuse University
University of Vermont
SUNY Albany
Pace University
SUNY Albany
Maryland Institute College of Art
Sacred Heart
New England Conservatory
University of Rhode Island
LeMoyne
Jacksonville University
US Coast Guard Academy
Albany College of Pharmacy
Quinnipiac
Hofstra University
SUNY Stonybrook
University of Texas at Austin
SUNY Binghamton
SUNY Stonybrook
Iona
Johnson and Wales, RI
LeMoyne
Quinnipiac University
SUNY Albany
SUNY Albany
Hofstra University
Sacred Heart University
St. John’s University
University of Buffalo
R.I.T.
Pace University
Rochester Institute of Technology
SUNY Oneonta
SUNY Albany
Iona
Johnson & Wales, NC
Becker College
Seton Hall
SUNY Geneseo
Union College
Dutchess Community College
UTI
Johnson & Wales University
SUNY Binghamton
University of Hartford
College of St. Rose
Colorado State
St. John’s University
Crane School of Music
Crane School of Music
St. Peter’s College
Syracuse University
Pace University
Albany College of Pharmacy
Atlantic Union College, MA
US Army Reserves
SUNY Albany
University of New Haven
University of Hartford
Oswego State
Oswego State
Ohio State
Keene State
STAC
DCC
Dominican College
St. Thomas Aquinas
Lafayette
College of St. Rose
City College
Dutchess Community College
United States Military Academy at West Point
Cortland
Columbia University
University of Pennsylvania
Culinary Institute of America
Hocking College
C.W. Post at LIU
Albany College of Pharmacy
Johnson & Wales, NC
Barnard College
College of St. Rose
SUNY New Paltz
Messiah College
Brigham Young University
Johnson and Wales
St. Thomas Aquinas
Sacred Heart University</p>
<p>Basically, one Ivy (Columbia) and a few other prestigious schools.</p>
<p>23, or 20, AP courses offered, 20 if counting all language AP’s as one offering.</p>
<p>are you allowed to post those people’s names??? delete the names!!!</p>
<p>16/335 economically disadvantaged in a recent graduating class.</p>
<p>Edited the list.</p>
<p>Hm…the number of elite college admits can be counted on one hand. So, looks like your school isn’t that competitive. That’s not an insult or anything…just the truth as determined by a random person from your provided info</p>
<p>So is that good or bad for me?</p>
<p>Two ivies - theres a UPENN in there too</p>
<p>Whoa totally missed that!</p>
<p>I think that its rather absurd that college admissions officers or anyone, for that matter, finds it valid to judge the quality and competitiveness of a high school based on a matriculation list. Many high schools—particularly of the ‘public’ variety—are EXTREMELY intense and competitive, yet they do not send nearly as many kids to ‘prestigious’ colleges as the more elite private and boarding schools.</p>
<p>It is truly shameful that public schoolers still lose out on admissions to the top colleges. Sure, colleges like Yale will boast about having 56% public school students, but that is still a miniscule percentage relative to the amount of total public schoolers vs. private schoolers in the USA. They can say what they want, but going to a school like Phillips Exeter (or something like that) helps SIGNIFICANTLY in the application process—if not for the name, for the professional guidance and lobbying. As a quick illustration, out of roughly 100 graduates in the class of 2006, the Fieldston School in NYC sent NINE students to Yale. I’m sorry, but there is no way that all nine of those kids—plus the countless others that matriculated at Harvard, Princeton, and other peer institutions—were more qualified than the top public school students from my area that can barely dream of getting into Yale and Harvard, and who are left disappointed time and again when April rolls around.</p>
<p>America may be the land of liberty, but the ‘American Dream’ has been thrown out the window in the college application process. While schools like LSE (which turned down the son of the school’s PRESIDENT) are moving towards meritocracy, we’re moving towards a plutocratic caste system that uses race-based affirmative action to ‘save face’ when what is really needed is socio-economic-based affirmative action.</p>
<p>It is for all these reasons that I can only laugh when I read headlines like: “Princeton ends Early Admissions, Joins Movement to Make Process Fairer”—If they really wanted to make the process ‘fairer’, they would end legacy admissions, heavy athletic recruitment, and development considerations. The ‘prestigious’ colleges, quite frankly, are some of the most hypocritical institutions in our country.</p>
<p>I rest my case.</p>
<p>While I do wholeheartedly agree with you, I am trying to be pragmatic here. The bottom line is whether or not my highschool is going to help or hurt me. We can sit here and complain all we want, but we’re not changing the Yale admissions policy, lol.</p>