I was just sharing some options. It shouldnāt require Naviance to determine if your school is competitive or not, whatever that means.
@Nicki20 I donāt know how many are going to each Ivy, but the list of ācolleges attendingā includes all of them.
6022. Funny story. Last year the school's online newspaper listed in a story almost every kid's college they were attending. It had a breakdown of every state that a kid was going. This year they didn't. Went back because you can go back 3-4 years of previous articles written. Had a lot of old stories. That article seemed to be "missing". Not PC?
"I havenāt heard of it either. I know in Chicago there is 9 selective enrollment public school which sounds similar to a states governor school. Out in suburbia there is IMSA which is a selective public school too "
@Nicki20 - donāt forget my alma mater, Uni High! 
There are only 38 AP exams. 8 of those are foreign languages and most schools only offer half or so. So at 34 a school pretty much maxes out. Most IB schools also donāt offer research or seminar.
You might Google the name of your school along with āprofileā The school profile is what the GC send to the colleges with their LOR. Some schools have the profile on the homepage of their website. Other schools have it buried.
Governorās School (aka Governorās Honors) is a residential summer program sponsored by the state government for intellectually gifted high school students (mostly rising seniors). In N.C., itās usually the top 600 students from all public, private, and charter schools. Not all top students choose to apply of course. Selection is very competitive. N.C. has the oldest GS in the nation, but about half of all states have one. You can google to get more information if interested.
Going to a high school thatās not considered ācompetitiveā - and with the exception of certain magnet schools, governorās schools, and others that have various, known kinds of rigorous entrance requirements, I totally agree with @bigmacbeth about āwhatever that meansā because itās used super loosely, to put it nicely - doesnāt do an applicant any harm.
Arguably, going to a school thatās genuinely considered competitive, and coasting through with a lot of free periods and lightweight classes, would be a worse scenario.
2 College visits this week. 3 more before July 4th. 2-3 more in September and all the critical visits will be done. (we arenāt visiting 3 far reaching schools until we get financial packages back-- the rest are to determine if she is interested in applying) The first apps open up July 1st, with the rest opening August 1st. Brag sheets are due this weekend. Wow. Talk about getting real! Sheās my last one. Iām beginning to get emotional over all of this.
Didnāt realize (non-summer) governorās School is not a thing at most states. Magnet public schools are more common?
We have so many choices locally I cannot imagine sending my kid to Sacramento for high school.
State level competitions are often split up regionally here as well because are population is so large.
I like your confidence. 
@makemesmart If thereās something Iāve learned from CC over the last 2+ years, itās that there is no such thing as āmore commonā when it comes to how HSs or colleges do things.
We are done with college visits āuntil we get results backā. Kinda nice to be at this point, but I was willing to do one last push to visit the last 3 schools on the āfinalā list, oldest not so much.
Wowzers, I had no idea there were that many APs, and that some schools offered 25+. I never bothered to look at the full list. I just checked our school profile doc and we offer 23. I guess that means weāre almost competitive? With NYS regents curriculum, itās frankly hard to take more than 12 throughout all of high school, at least in our district. Maybe a few more if you skipped lunches.
@bigmacbeth
Lol! Thank you 
I thought more schools, especially elite private hs are dropping APs all together.
Not sure if we are done with initial visits or not. We are strongly āencouragingā DD to add 2-3 schools to her list of 4. She has a good shot at NMF and at least 2 must reward that accomplishment with a scholarship. We call these her VERY likely schools rather than safeties since some of those scholarships are limited in quantity or competitive. We will visit those during fall break or on their designated visit day for NM.
Governors schools are not always in the state capital. Texas has them spread throughout the state, as free public boarding schools for qualified students.
@roycroftmom Not sure who mentioned that Governorās Schools were always in the state capital, but they are not here in NC. One campus happens to be in Raleigh (where my D20 is going), but the other campus is in High Point, NC. The kids are assigned, canāt pick.
@makemesmart My D goes to a small, rigorous private school and they donāt offer APs. I, too, have heard of schools dropping APs for various reasons.