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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone talks about how competitive the DMV area is, but it's even worse in California. In the Bay Area, every large high school is just as competitive as Langley or McLean in NOVA. Everyone is taking 15+ AP classes and getting 5s on the scores. Teachers refuse to give out As. Sports teams are impossible to join. Extracurriculars are impossible to stand out. Everyone is doing research, starting non-profits, winning chess tournaments, and doing other niche extracurriculars. And it sucks too because high schools in LA, Orange County, and San Diego are also brutally competitive and cutthroat. It's why someone with straight As in California can get denied from UC Riverside. [/quote]

The rest of the schools in California are really, really low quality.  Like absurdly low quality for a state this wealthy.  Their teacher unions are a huge part of it, along with their focus on nonsense.

I taught in southern California at several schools in a "good" school district and had kids in northern California in another "good" district.  The school quality was so bad compared to even the low and middling schools in northern Virginia.

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