@Happytimes2001 Ha ha yeah. Its a good school but thats in part because its in a very rich neighborhood (our county is the richest in the state). Our class is also over 20% Asian, and out of the 41 NMS Semifinalists, 31 were Asian. About half of the 41 Commended were Asian as well. It was common to take 16-18 AP classes among the competitive students, I took 16 AP classes personally. But honestly you have to get over the fact that you ain’t “the smart kid” and you gotta put in hella effort just to compare yourself to those people. It did push you to work hard though, not only in school but also extracurriculars.
College Application season had a lot of gossip and pressure to apply/ not apply to schools. It’s hard to think about going to a state flagship or even a T50 school because they’re considered safeties to most… so there are pluses and minuses.