<p>^^^^ No…I went for more than a year. And I left (after 8th grade - TWO years) because my brother couldn’t make it in (the idiot got proficient on STAR; how I am related to him I have no idea) and my mom couldn’t drive back and forth across the city just to take and pick us up from school. </p>
<p>Lol speak for myself? Alright yeah - I have taken more APs so far than anyone at Whitney in the same grade as I and will, by the end of graduation, take more APs in total than anyone who has graduated from Whitney. And I guess my 2100-2200 SAT score as a rising sophomore, #1 ranking w/ all A’s at my current school, and President/VP/Cofounder of a multitude of clubs should speak for myself too. Ever heard of Elite? There’s many of you Whitney-ites who went there this summer all a grade above me - yet can’t score higher than 1600. Shameful.</p>
<p>My statement that there are not many bright people at Whitney is valid. It is based on state testing scores and everyone knows how easy it is to score advanced on the STAR. People from the northern and eastern regions of Cerritos are undeniably bright - although that is starting to decline with the increasing drug usage - but remember that admission to Whitney includes people from western and southern Cerritos, Hawaiian Gardens, Artesia, and Lakewood. If you look at the grades of the latter, students from those regions are probably averaging less than a 3.7 GPA and are usually in remedial math classes and have greater discipline problems than those students mentioned in the prior regions. Admissions to schools like Jefferson and Stuyvesant are much more difficult and the acceptance rates to top colleges like HYPSM and Ivies are significantly higher in those schools than at Whitney.</p>
<p>Whitney simply cannot compare to Troy, Stuyvesant, Exeter, Andover, Jefferson, Lynbrook, Saratoga, and other similar schools.</p>
<p>And do you ever see “Whitney High” as one of the frontrunners in national competitions like the Science Olympiad? No; in fact, Whitney doesn’t even have the MONEY to sponsor such events whereas Troy consistently ranks as one of the top schools in FBLA, Academic Decathlon, Science Olympiad, Intel ISEF, Siemens, etc. The extracurricular outreach at Whitney is also a joke whereas Troy allows students to participate in numerous fields of interests from business to science to math, etc. </p>
<p>Not only that, Troy actually has a football team - and a superior one at that. The sports programs at Whitney are outright laughable. It’s a school full of Asians yet their tennis team can’t even make state like Saratoga and Monta Vista.</p>
<p>I also find it funny how a significant handful of Whitney students also end up at the local community college and CSULB/F. Whitney isn’t all hyped up as it really is, which I regret doing in 6th grade. I can’t believe I actually thought the school was extraordinary at one point.</p>
<p>Geez, I mean seriously - why else do you think all these people who posted in this thread don’t even know what Whitney is? That’s because it isn’t worth knowing.</p>