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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former HB parent here.  Are you saying HB no longer offers AP English?[/quote]

It does but not in 12th grade[/quote]

Interesting change.  Thanks.

I see that HB continues to have SAT scores that average around 1300, maybe 50 or so points higher than Yorktown and W-L.  They're good scores but could be better given the self-selected student body.  And the AP test scores aren't that great either.  They're fine, but not great.

Still, you can usually count on more than one and sometimes as many as four or five Ivy admits each year, which is impressive for a public school its size that doesn't require testing.  In recent years there have been two admits in the same class to Stanford, Brown and Yale.

All in all, I'd have to say that HB is as good but certainly no better  academically than the neighborhood schools, and generally speaking is probably less rigorous.  I still remember a highly academically driven family moving their HB kid under protest to the neighborhood school after middle school because they were unimpressed.  I thought at the time that they were being ridiculous but the kid ultimately ended up in a top 3 (Harvard, Stanford, Yale) law school, though, so I guess they knew what they were doing.   [/quote]

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