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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, your high school system is a disaster. That is not my opinion; it is an objective, globally recognized fact. To place an average American high schooler in a room with a student from a Swiss Gymnasium is not a comparison; it is a cruelty.[/quote] My son was a good but not spectacular student in wildly uneven honors high school. He now has two degrees from two EU universities that outrank ETH in his field. His classmates were supposed to come in with a gymnasium education or the equivalent. My son never has any trouble with competing with the EU-educated students, and he never felt that they had an advantage because they came in with a better education. Gymnasium students may be a lot better prepared than average U.S. high school students, but gymnasium schools are more directly comparable to Thomas Jefferson and Stuyvesant. Good U.S. test school students are roughly as well-educated test school students elsewhere in the world. [/quote]
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