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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent with a child at one of these top 10 schools, let me just say:

These high school rankings are stupid and deeply offensive.[/quote]

+1. I think the ranking of high schools is very stupid. College admissions boards don't care if you went to a highly ranked high school (except to the extent they think you faced challenging circumstances that you overcame), and when you enter the workforce, no one cares what high school you went to.  Depending on the profession, people might care about what college or graduate school you went to, but not your high school. [/quote]

Well--they care in a sense that they place a quota on the maximum number of kids they will accept from a single HS.  You are f*cked if you are at a super-competitive HS.

I was 10 out of 729 at a FairfaX Co HS.  If I was at a much more competitive I know my ranking would have been much lower and it would have been a much more stressful and competitive environment.  Some of those places are literal pressure cookers and sadly we are seeing kids take their own lives in greater numbers.

I'll take 'big fish in small pond' any day.[/quote]

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