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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Setting aside the stuff you can find on the admissions website, it's the most elite high school in the city (not counting Pasadena, which has Poly and Flintridge Prep, and other areas like Palos Verdes, the Valley and OC). It's elite for everything: academics and sports. As pp says, entry points are 7 and 9. Only small numbers of kids are admitted in non-entry years. The most recent admissions director left this year, and they have an interim person there now. They are wonderfully transparent about their college placement stats: It's not like HW has materially better placement outcomes than the local public schools like Pali and Santa Monica HS, and may even do worse with the UCs. But the rigor is there, and it's filled with driven, talented kids, and it's an exciting place because of that.[/quote]

One might stress the size of the school, relative to other privates in the area (for ex Poly or Flintridge Prep): classes are close to 300 in size, rather than ca. 100. It's a big school, it draws kids from all over LA (though kids are probably concentrated in a handful of well-to-do areas), and though individual class sizes are small, the school is not intimate. 7th grade entry seems to favor a handful of feeders, like Curtis, John Thomas Dye, etc. 9th is more open, but they seem to be filling in spots (athletes, strong academic kids, etc.). Admissions is extremely competitive. The only private school everyone in the city knows about, with the perception being both ultra-rich and ultra-competitive academically. Grain of truth there but a bit exagerated. [/quote]

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