<p>Plano TX was at one point famous for its high rate of teen suicide. Is that still the case?</p>
<p>Wow, that’s one OLD thread that you just revived.</p>
<p>ditto… where did you even find this?</p>
<p>Don’t know how I landed on the thread, but when I heard of Plano high school it was about twenty years ago. I don’t think Plano was known for academics at that time, but it made national headlines with the suicides.</p>
<p>That’s one amazing school… we have had only three harvard goers in the last 10 years…</p>
<p>Relative to class size, though, it is less impressive. There are regular, nonselective admission public high schools that send 8-12 students to Harvard in a good year from classes of 4-500.</p>
<p>our school always have classes of 300 - 500 per grade, still our track record is 3 in the last ten years… and we’re suppose to be one of the top public schools in the state… depressing</p>
<p>Our school, over the last 60 years has sent one person to Harvard (this year) and one Person to yale, 6 years ago. We’re also supposed to be one of the best schools in the state, with graduating class sizes at roughly 500 - 600 kids.</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>I don’t think Ivy accepances are a good way of assessing the quality of a school.</p>
<p>It’s Plano! This was last year’s val. </p>
<p>Wow…Plano on CC. I’m a bit scared.</p>
<p>correction: It’s Plano EAST.</p>
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<p>Is there any good assessment that isn’t well-correlated with rate of acceptance at elite schools? That is, does it make any difference if you instead measure funding, test scores, graduation and college attendance rates, number of teachers with masters and PhD degrees, books read per student, or teen non-pregnancy?</p>
<p>I think top tier acceptances are one of the best ways actually, because ivys and other top schools use hollistic approaches to admissions so they are essentially giving a comprehensive evaluation of the kids your school is pumping out. Take my inner city public school for example, we have poor funding and not the greatest test averages (like 10th in the state) but we send more kids to top schools each year because of the environment our school provides/healthy balance of competitition/cooperation --these are the things that count, and they would be very hard to measure in any other way.</p>
<p>City public high schools with large numbers of top 20 university admissions relative to funding level are usually selective admission, so should be compared within that category (where again, every aspect of school quality that comes to mind correlates well with Ivy admissions rate). Selective universities track the quality of high schools and use it in their admissions procedures, and I remember seeing some study that this perceived high school quality was pretty influential on admission rate.</p>