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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I recently learned about Naviance and explored it for S's HS, which is ranked in the top 30 by US News and has been for the last 5 years. Said school is widely regarded as the best in a (very large) city, and it is acclaimed for supposedly preparing graduates for college. 100% pass district tests and on average students take 6 AP exams with a pass rate of over 95%. The average SAT and ACT are upwards of 1900/28. The top 10% take nearly 14 APs on average and most get near perfect scores on testing. I took a look at Naviance data and was surprised to see that across the top LACs and universities, there was seemingly no benefit of attending this HS. Actually, more places had [b]LOWER[/b] admit rates than the usual average and the few with higher ones were barely higher. Keep in mind that a 4.4+ is equivalent to the top 15% and a 4.6+ the top 5%. With these statistics, what's the point of going to a supposedly more rigorous HS? Many people in this HS could easily be in the top 10% or even valedictorian at other schools.

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This is very interesting. But to conclude that rates are actually higher or lower for each college you need confidence intervals around your averages. Most of your differences are probably not different at a statistically significant level (like when the rate varies by 1-4 percentage points). Overall I agree there is probably something going on, though.  Very interesting analysis and I'd love to see this done for other high schools. 
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