<p>My school is probably one of the best in my (suburban) area. Its alumni consists of very accomplished CEOs /business man, public officials (lawyers,judges State Congressman, US congressman), talk-show hosts, NFL players, NHL players, will have NBA players in 2-4 years, professional (Olympic wrestlers, UFC fighters). If not the best, one of the best sports programs in the country. It has a couple specialized programs typically reserved for college campuses. A student can take up to 7-9 AP classes (I know, not too good, but we are forced to take religion classes every year)) and Linear Algebra. It is a catholic school so it does not have a ranking. It was awarded a Blue Ribbon distinction several years back for education. Usually, Harvard sends an admissions representative to our school, but they stopped this year for some reason. Our HS record toward H over 8 years: Harvard ( one out of 3 applicants who had 1500+ SAT were accepted, others were waitlisted or deferred and the two who were deferred committed to another school b4 they were denied. The one who went to H was unhooked.</p>