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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The residents of Winnetka and Scarsdale must be pissed that their property taxes pay for high schools that rate so terribly on college readiness.[/quote]

Ugh.  I went to one of those schools.  Greater than 95%+ go to college from those schools.  The US news and world report "college readiness" index looks at the number of AP or IB exams and how many pass them.  Do you think that a student is unready for college if they haven't taken any AP or IB exams?  Unready for MIT or Harvard?  Sure.  Unready for college?  Not so much.  New Trier in particular filters students to keep the standards of the AP classes high so that only kids they think are going to get 4s or 5s on the AP exams take them.

SWW, with its joint program with GW might be ranking less high on the "college readiness" metric in part because kids can take actual college classes instead of as many AP or IB classes, which is kind of ironic.  While it's obvious that the schools on this list are fantastic schools, and generally the higher up, the better the school (no one would argue that Thomas Jefferson, Stuyvesant, etc. are not the best public schools in the country), and how you do on AP and IB exams and how many students take is correlated with rigor, it's not the full story.  What a ridiculous war to be having on a message board.[/quote]

Sorry, but I aim higher. This is my city and our message board.  If you think we should all come from privates our get admitted due to minority status and low SES and then not be able to actually survive, FU.  I went to CUA for a semester before I went to my Ivy, A's vc C and D's.  No offense t0 GE, but SWS ought to be offerine a better education inside.  [/quote]

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