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<p>You’re bitter because you go to an excellent high school that probably offers you tons of resources (courses, clubs, tutoring, advising, etc.), so you resort to bashing the vast majority of high schools?</p>
<p>I’ll tell you this: while your high school may be “rigorous,” a very large number of public schools–yes, those easy public schools full of students who don’t have the bear the burden of a difficult school–have their own equivalent of your school, called a magnet program. Not all schools have that in name. Essentially, the students take honors/AP courses, which are typically small. These are the students who are president of the student body, who win state competitions, who get into Yale and Stanford and Harvard.</p>
<p>By the way, it doesn’t matter whether your high school is as well known as Andover and Exeter or not; there is a counselor report that gives adcoms all the info they need to assess the difficulty of your school and the rigor of your course load. They will take this into account when comparing your “rigorous” school to all those “easy” schools out there.</p>