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Its not a question of money, my school has a lot of money because of the tourist resort property taxes, but when you fill you school with pot smoking dummies, you wont get good results.</p>
<p>i think the list is rediculous. high tech should be on there somewhere if the list meant anything. as someone said, most of the schools are from the north. some of the great schools are from central/southern nj.</p>
<p>first of all… they’re public noncompetitive schools… and i believe number 1 is a charter school? (someone correct me) so high tech couldn’t be there…
and also taxes aren’t everything… the taxes for my town are really low, it’s incredible we’re in the top 25. of course we’re also a school that’s owned by one town but another town pays to send students to our public hs, so that might be part of it…</p>
<p>^^^OUCHTOWN!</p>
<p>Makes me really mad, I just realized I used to live in a town that would have been top 15. Crap. Maybe seeing a smart kid from a crappy school will stick out in adcoms minds?</p>
<p>or… he must be from monmouth county around the atlantic highlands/lincroft area b/c that’s where high tech is… and i bet he/she goes to high tech :)</p>
<p>Dude I played the High Tech kids in chess once, and they kicked our ass but they were so weird, they would randomly spazz when you were making a move, unlike the wacko on my school chess team, which doesn’t give real names. I remember some black kid saying, after I played him “I can’t believe I got beat by C3PO.” </p>
<p>Thats is my favorite moment of chess.</p>
<p>Top 75 schools in New Jersey? From New Jersey magazine??</p>
<p>Come on…</p>
<p>My school was in the top 75 of Newsweek’s top 100 public high schools in the NATION!</p>
<p>ridgewood is 26? this list is bs.</p>
<p>My school’s not even on that list.</p>
<p>As much as I believe that rankings can be quite telling about certain features of many schools, I don’t see why Newsweek’s rankings would ever be taken seriously.</p>
<p>^ this list just explains why my parents didn’t send me to the public school in my town.</p>
<p>I didnt think there were even 50 schools in New Jersey…</p>
<p>New Jersey = the armpit state</p>
<p>i know someone at #31, Highland Park.</p>
<p>shravas:
Can you think of anything better in our state? Because Ohio sucks just as much.
I find it interesting that Princeton has a rank of #13; I would have thought that it would have been higher, given its eight Princeton matriculants/year deal. Of course, it looks like that was not counted.
I also spot some incredible meaningless precision: since when are percentage points measured out to one one hundred trillionth on anything?</p>
<p>kman1456 - why would college matriculation count, especially when so many Princeton kids are helped in admissions by the fact that their parents went to or work at Princeton University? Oh and by the way, they send many more than 8 kids/year to the university. MY school sends 8-10ish kids each year.</p>
<p>And just for reference, I know people at like 30 of the schools on that list. :p</p>
<p>A couple more things.</p>
<p>New Jersey is THE most developed state in the nation, with the 9th largest population in the country, trailing just behind Ohio and Michigan. However, the fact that New Jersey is also the 6th smallest state in the nation provides it with the highest population density. In other words, not only are there many, many more than 50 high schools in New Jersey, but they are also totally unavoidable to see because people are EVERYWHERE. You could drive for only a few hours and see 50 high schools (depending on where in NJ you are).</p>
<p>And what exactly qualifies NJ as the armpit state? If you’re referring to education, it consistently performs outstandingly well academically. Ask the admissions office of any competitive college in the country. =D</p>
<p>Really, New Jersey does stink, like an armpit, and is America’s armpit geographically. My friends who live there even admit that they don’t like it.</p>
<p>dude, um chris and shravas… it seems like… most NJ people would actually disagree. You can find EVERYTHING in NJ- you can find sufficient urban areas, vast suburbs and a couple farms. Shopping, fun, transportation is EVERYWHERE. And if you are talking about education… maybe not all of our schools rank in the top of the nation… but the overall quality of education in NJ is one of the top to be found in the nation. I don’t have statistics off the top of my head, and I’m lazy to actually get them, but I know that for a fact. Moreover, the NJ public high schools are gems… many of them provide quality education… even though they are just public. Many schools boast a high matriculation rate at ivys and top universities and LACs and if you say that’s because of the wealth of the state- so be it -> it doesn’t make the state any worse. If you’re talking about pollution, that’s only the area right outside of NY and the landfill, I believe, is actually on Staten Island… part of NY. NJ isn’t a state full of chemical plants and stupid people – most people would agree that NJ is a great state with a great education system. 
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<p>oh and just… um… to put it out there… i know ppl at 39 of the high schools :)</p>
<p>and sry if i sounded defensive. i just think NJ is a great state… and got carried away :D</p>
<p>Haha, don’t worry. I was holding myself back from talking about all those things you mentioned. I love this state, too. Sans Corzine.</p>
<p>My sister goes to Rutgers in New Brunswick and moved in in the past few days. She said a dining hall has been closed, a BUNCH of classes have been cancelled (they’re not offering ANY orgo classes this semester, which screws over everyone in the Pharm program), and they’ve had to hire inadequate staff members, probably for lower wages. And to top it off, Rutgers overenrolled this year, so they’re converting lounges into dorms! That’s gotta suck.</p>