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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NJ poster. Here are profile of high schools near mine. I feel weird posting my school. 
http://www.mlschools.org/cms/lib5/NJ01001801/Centricity/Domain/8/MLHSProfile2014-2015%20rev1.pdf

http://www.northernhighlands.org/cms/lib5/NJ01000179/Centricity/Domain/7/CLASS%20OF%202015%20PROFILE%20alternate.pdf

Again, I'd be happy if my kids had the opportunity to attend HBW, but the placement results really aren't that impressive. Not the end of the world though because there are many great colleges out there. ;)
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OP here.  Here's the thing.  The reported SAT scores for both of the NJ schools on the list that you just posted are lower than HBW's.  Also, the list of college acceptances is misleading because it shows where students were ACCEPTED, not where they actually ENROLLED.  The 2 students from HBW attending Yale were presumably accepted at other highly ranked schools as well, but HBW isn't reporting them because the student isn't attending those schools.  When your list says Brown accepted 2 and Harvard accepted 1, it's highly likely that we are only talking about two students at the most, not three -- one accepted to Brown and one accepted to both Brown and Harvard.  And in all likelihood the other student accepted by Brown was accepted at Cornell, etc.  This is a common trick by high schools to make their lists look better.

The list I gave you for HB is where students actually enrolled, not where they were accepted.  One school per student.

As for the poster who wonders why I compared HBW to Langley/McLean, I did it not out of insecurity but because those schools are generally regarded as the best neighborhood high schools in NOVA.  Thus, they're the obvious baseline.    [/quote]

Are you seriously comparing schools in Morris and Bergen counties to HBW? A quick check shows that Mountain Lakes has 6 students on free and reduced lunch (out of a school size comparable to HBW), and Northern Highlands, with twice the enrollment, has a total of EIGHT students on free lunch. However, almost one out of five students at HBW is on free and reduced lunch, and they put up better SAT and AP stats.[/quote]

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