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[quote=Anonymous][quote]My kids go to FCPS schools and are in the IB program. I never said I didn't care about the reputations or qualities of schools. But again, I think it's pretty difficult to go wrong in FCPS. And as a journalist who has worked at some of the publications that do these rankings, I realize their myriad flaws and don't really buy into them for making high school decisions. Numbers can tell you all sorts of things, but what they won't tell you about is [b]individual achievement[/b]. I know a senior from an FCPS school posters here would scoff at who got into [b]Harvard,[/b] early decision, on October 31.[/quote]

The last sentence is little unclear. Maybe the PP's DCPS teacher can tear it to pieces too.

If you think individual achievement is great and noteworthy, the design/building of a space satellite by individual high school students is also an achievement and should be commended and not dismissed as "not surprising." Isn't that a double standard? Also, isn't Harvard one of the colleges ranked high by US News? Why mention a college that is consistently ranked high by various ranking systems if people don't care about rankings and they are useless.

I agree that various ranking methodologies employed are flawed and that was one of the point. The HS rankings are flawed because they are primarily based on number of AP classes taken by each student regardless of the scores and they disregard post-AP courses entirely.[/quote]

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