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YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,150 Founders Club
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  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 23,670
    YellowSnow said:

    @BearsWiin ??

    That's not the bellwether. That would be earlier this year when Chicago dropped it. Chicago, they of the high rep non-partisan free speach/no safe spaces Chicago. THAT was chintresting.

    There are a bunch of highly selective schools that have dropped it and the College Board must be shitting themselves. Some dropped it long ago.

    You actually don't have to submit GRE scores for admission to Brown Maff PhD. My kid submitted, but it was a complete option. Brown Maff at the doctoral level is no joke. No GRE.

    In Cal's case, I don't think it was ever as big a deal as it was to the selective schools in the east, where it was a big chunk of your chance. At Cal, I have it on pretty good authority that finishing in the Top 10% of your HS class was the biggest swing in admission. So from a strategy standpoint, if you wanted Cal, you didn't go to Lakeside or Mercer Island or Bellevue, but rather, say, Snohomish or somewhere else where the competition isn't as keen. That top 10% thing has historically been yuge for UC admissions.
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  • LebamDawgLebamDawg Member Posts: 8,742 Standard Supporter
    I laffed.

    Have always felt that ratings within out education systems should be based on inequities.



    I feel better now

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  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 23,670
    RaceBannon said:

    Doesn't really matter now that we have the insect apocalypse to deal with

    You wrote those words for the sole and express purpose of frightening me.
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  • ThomasFremontThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    creepycoug said:

    YellowSnow said:

    @BearsWiin ??

    That's not the bellwether. That would be earlier this year when Chicago dropped it. Chicago, they of the high rep non-partisan free speach/no safe spaces Chicago. THAT was chintresting.

    There are a bunch of highly selective schools that have dropped it and the College Board must be shitting themselves. Some dropped it long ago.

    You actually don't have to submit GRE scores for admission to Brown Maff PhD. My kid submitted, but it was a complete option. Brown Maff at the doctoral level is no joke. No GRE.

    In Cal's case, I don't think it was ever as big a deal as it was to the selective schools in the east, where it was a big chunk of your chance. At Cal, I have it on pretty good authority that finishing in the Top 10% of your HS class was the biggest swing in admission. So from a strategy standpoint, if you wanted Cal, you didn't go to Lakeside or Mercer Island or Bellevue, but rather, say, Snohomish or somewhere else where the competition isn't as keen. That top 10% thing has historically been yuge for UC admissions.
    Lakeside
    Mercer Island
    Bellevue

    One of these things is not like the others.
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  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 23,670
    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    YellowSnow said:

    @BearsWiin ??

    That's not the bellwether. That would be earlier this year when Chicago dropped it. Chicago, they of the high rep non-partisan free speach/no safe spaces Chicago. THAT was chintresting.

    There are a bunch of highly selective schools that have dropped it and the College Board must be shitting themselves. Some dropped it long ago.

    You actually don't have to submit GRE scores for admission to Brown Maff PhD. My kid submitted, but it was a complete option. Brown Maff at the doctoral level is no joke. No GRE.

    In Cal's case, I don't think it was ever as big a deal as it was to the selective schools in the east, where it was a big chunk of your chance. At Cal, I have it on pretty good authority that finishing in the Top 10% of your HS class was the biggest swing in admission. So from a strategy standpoint, if you wanted Cal, you didn't go to Lakeside or Mercer Island or Bellevue, but rather, say, Snohomish or somewhere else where the competition isn't as keen. That top 10% thing has historically been yuge for UC admissions.
    Lakeside
    Mercer Island
    Bellevue

    One of these things is not like the others.
    Not really. They're all competitive high schools full of serious Asian students whose entire existence is predicated on getting into an elite school. All three. Don't make the @Ballz mistake of confusing Bellevue's former football dynasty with the a good % of its students. It's a serious place.
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  • ThomasFremontThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    YellowSnow said:

    @BearsWiin ??

    That's not the bellwether. That would be earlier this year when Chicago dropped it. Chicago, they of the high rep non-partisan free speach/no safe spaces Chicago. THAT was chintresting.

    There are a bunch of highly selective schools that have dropped it and the College Board must be shitting themselves. Some dropped it long ago.

    You actually don't have to submit GRE scores for admission to Brown Maff PhD. My kid submitted, but it was a complete option. Brown Maff at the doctoral level is no joke. No GRE.

    In Cal's case, I don't think it was ever as big a deal as it was to the selective schools in the east, where it was a big chunk of your chance. At Cal, I have it on pretty good authority that finishing in the Top 10% of your HS class was the biggest swing in admission. So from a strategy standpoint, if you wanted Cal, you didn't go to Lakeside or Mercer Island or Bellevue, but rather, say, Snohomish or somewhere else where the competition isn't as keen. That top 10% thing has historically been yuge for UC admissions.
    Lakeside
    Mercer Island
    Bellevue

    One of these things is not like the others.
    Not really. They're all competitive high schools full of serious Asian students whose entire existence is predicated on getting into an elite school. All three. Don't make the @Ballz mistake of confusing Bellevue's former football dynasty with the a good % of its students. It's a serious place.
    If Lakeside is equal to decent public schools, what are they paying for?
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  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 23,670
    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    YellowSnow said:

    @BearsWiin ??

    That's not the bellwether. That would be earlier this year when Chicago dropped it. Chicago, they of the high rep non-partisan free speach/no safe spaces Chicago. THAT was chintresting.

    There are a bunch of highly selective schools that have dropped it and the College Board must be shitting themselves. Some dropped it long ago.

    You actually don't have to submit GRE scores for admission to Brown Maff PhD. My kid submitted, but it was a complete option. Brown Maff at the doctoral level is no joke. No GRE.

    In Cal's case, I don't think it was ever as big a deal as it was to the selective schools in the east, where it was a big chunk of your chance. At Cal, I have it on pretty good authority that finishing in the Top 10% of your HS class was the biggest swing in admission. So from a strategy standpoint, if you wanted Cal, you didn't go to Lakeside or Mercer Island or Bellevue, but rather, say, Snohomish or somewhere else where the competition isn't as keen. That top 10% thing has historically been yuge for UC admissions.
    Lakeside
    Mercer Island
    Bellevue

    One of these things is not like the others.
    Not really. They're all competitive high schools full of serious Asian students whose entire existence is predicated on getting into an elite school. All three. Don't make the @Ballz mistake of confusing Bellevue's former football dynasty with the a good % of its students. It's a serious place.
    If Lakeside is equal to decent public schools, what are they paying for?
    I didn't say they were equal. But depending on the public school and the program, you can get the same level of rigor you get at Lakeside. A solid IB program will do that.

    People will still pay for Lakeside for a myriad of other reasons.

    The main point being, the three schools I listed have lots of kids who are working very hard to attend elite schools. Making it into the top 10% at those places will be an order of magnitude more difficult than it would be at, say, Lake Stevens High School or Mount Si.
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  • ThomasFremontThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    YellowSnow said:

    @BearsWiin ??

    That's not the bellwether. That would be earlier this year when Chicago dropped it. Chicago, they of the high rep non-partisan free speach/no safe spaces Chicago. THAT was chintresting.

    There are a bunch of highly selective schools that have dropped it and the College Board must be shitting themselves. Some dropped it long ago.

    You actually don't have to submit GRE scores for admission to Brown Maff PhD. My kid submitted, but it was a complete option. Brown Maff at the doctoral level is no joke. No GRE.

    In Cal's case, I don't think it was ever as big a deal as it was to the selective schools in the east, where it was a big chunk of your chance. At Cal, I have it on pretty good authority that finishing in the Top 10% of your HS class was the biggest swing in admission. So from a strategy standpoint, if you wanted Cal, you didn't go to Lakeside or Mercer Island or Bellevue, but rather, say, Snohomish or somewhere else where the competition isn't as keen. That top 10% thing has historically been yuge for UC admissions.
    Lakeside
    Mercer Island
    Bellevue

    One of these things is not like the others.
    Not really. They're all competitive high schools full of serious Asian students whose entire existence is predicated on getting into an elite school. All three. Don't make the @Ballz mistake of confusing Bellevue's former football dynasty with the a good % of its students. It's a serious place.
    If Lakeside is equal to decent public schools, what are they paying for?
    I didn't say they were equal. But depending on the public school and the program, you can get the same level of rigor you get at Lakeside. A solid IB program will do that.

    People will still pay for Lakeside for a myriad of other reasons.

    The main point being, the three schools I listed have lots of kids who are working very hard to attend elite schools. Making it into the top 10% at those places will be an order of magnitude more difficult than it would be at, say, Lake Stevens High School or Mount Si.
    No argument there. I’m mostly poking fun at people dropping thousands monthly on a high school education you can get for free.
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  • MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    Christ..
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  • MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    YellowSnow said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    YellowSnow said:

    @BearsWiin ??

    That's not the bellwether. That would be earlier this year when Chicago dropped it. Chicago, they of the high rep non-partisan free speach/no safe spaces Chicago. THAT was chintresting.

    There are a bunch of highly selective schools that have dropped it and the College Board must be shitting themselves. Some dropped it long ago.

    You actually don't have to submit GRE scores for admission to Brown Maff PhD. My kid submitted, but it was a complete option. Brown Maff at the doctoral level is no joke. No GRE.

    In Cal's case, I don't think it was ever as big a deal as it was to the selective schools in the east, where it was a big chunk of your chance. At Cal, I have it on pretty good authority that finishing in the Top 10% of your HS class was the biggest swing in admission. So from a strategy standpoint, if you wanted Cal, you didn't go to Lakeside or Mercer Island or Bellevue, but rather, say, Snohomish or somewhere else where the competition isn't as keen. That top 10% thing has historically been yuge for UC admissions.
    Lakeside
    Mercer Island
    Bellevue

    One of these things is not like the others.
    Not really. They're all competitive high schools full of serious Asian students whose entire existence is predicated on getting into an elite school. All three. Don't make the @Ballz mistake of confusing Bellevue's former football dynasty with the a good % of its students. It's a serious place.
    If Lakeside is equal to decent public schools, what are they paying for?
    I didn't say they were equal. But depending on the public school and the program, you can get the same level of rigor you get at Lakeside. A solid IB program will do that.

    People will still pay for Lakeside for a myriad of other reasons.

    The main point being, the three schools I listed have lots of kids who are working very hard to attend elite schools. Making it into the top 10% at those places will be an order of magnitude more difficult than it would be at, say, Lake Stevens High School or Mount Si.
    No argument there. I’m mostly poking fun at people dropping thousands monthly on a high school education you can get for free.
    Pretty expensive to live in the Bellevue school district.
    Im pro vouchers and school choice.
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  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,150 Founders Club
    MikeDamone said:

    YellowSnow said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    YellowSnow said:

    @BearsWiin ??

    That's not the bellwether. That would be earlier this year when Chicago dropped it. Chicago, they of the high rep non-partisan free speach/no safe spaces Chicago. THAT was chintresting.

    There are a bunch of highly selective schools that have dropped it and the College Board must be shitting themselves. Some dropped it long ago.

    You actually don't have to submit GRE scores for admission to Brown Maff PhD. My kid submitted, but it was a complete option. Brown Maff at the doctoral level is no joke. No GRE.

    In Cal's case, I don't think it was ever as big a deal as it was to the selective schools in the east, where it was a big chunk of your chance. At Cal, I have it on pretty good authority that finishing in the Top 10% of your HS class was the biggest swing in admission. So from a strategy standpoint, if you wanted Cal, you didn't go to Lakeside or Mercer Island or Bellevue, but rather, say, Snohomish or somewhere else where the competition isn't as keen. That top 10% thing has historically been yuge for UC admissions.
    Lakeside
    Mercer Island
    Bellevue

    One of these things is not like the others.
    Not really. They're all competitive high schools full of serious Asian students whose entire existence is predicated on getting into an elite school. All three. Don't make the @Ballz mistake of confusing Bellevue's former football dynasty with the a good % of its students. It's a serious place.
    If Lakeside is equal to decent public schools, what are they paying for?
    I didn't say they were equal. But depending on the public school and the program, you can get the same level of rigor you get at Lakeside. A solid IB program will do that.

    People will still pay for Lakeside for a myriad of other reasons.

    The main point being, the three schools I listed have lots of kids who are working very hard to attend elite schools. Making it into the top 10% at those places will be an order of magnitude more difficult than it would be at, say, Lake Stevens High School or Mount Si.
    No argument there. I’m mostly poking fun at people dropping thousands monthly on a high school education you can get for free.
    Pretty expensive to live in the Bellevue school district.
    Im pro vouchers and school choice.
    They would seem to help improve equality of opportunity which should be the goal.

    I’m also anti teacher unions.
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  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 23,670
    YellowSnow said:

    MikeDamone said:

    YellowSnow said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    YellowSnow said:

    @BearsWiin ??

    That's not the bellwether. That would be earlier this year when Chicago dropped it. Chicago, they of the high rep non-partisan free speach/no safe spaces Chicago. THAT was chintresting.

    There are a bunch of highly selective schools that have dropped it and the College Board must be shitting themselves. Some dropped it long ago.

    You actually don't have to submit GRE scores for admission to Brown Maff PhD. My kid submitted, but it was a complete option. Brown Maff at the doctoral level is no joke. No GRE.

    In Cal's case, I don't think it was ever as big a deal as it was to the selective schools in the east, where it was a big chunk of your chance. At Cal, I have it on pretty good authority that finishing in the Top 10% of your HS class was the biggest swing in admission. So from a strategy standpoint, if you wanted Cal, you didn't go to Lakeside or Mercer Island or Bellevue, but rather, say, Snohomish or somewhere else where the competition isn't as keen. That top 10% thing has historically been yuge for UC admissions.
    Lakeside
    Mercer Island
    Bellevue

    One of these things is not like the others.
    Not really. They're all competitive high schools full of serious Asian students whose entire existence is predicated on getting into an elite school. All three. Don't make the @Ballz mistake of confusing Bellevue's former football dynasty with the a good % of its students. It's a serious place.
    If Lakeside is equal to decent public schools, what are they paying for?
    I didn't say they were equal. But depending on the public school and the program, you can get the same level of rigor you get at Lakeside. A solid IB program will do that.

    People will still pay for Lakeside for a myriad of other reasons.

    The main point being, the three schools I listed have lots of kids who are working very hard to attend elite schools. Making it into the top 10% at those places will be an order of magnitude more difficult than it would be at, say, Lake Stevens High School or Mount Si.
    No argument there. I’m mostly poking fun at people dropping thousands monthly on a high school education you can get for free.
    Pretty expensive to live in the Bellevue school district.
    Im pro vouchers and school choice.
    They would seem to help improve equality of opportunity which should be the goal.

    I’m also anti teacher unions.
    This is my last upvote until you join forces with good and publicly condemn OBK.

    What I need is an announcement that you're going to look into his racist rants. If you don't, I will withhold upvotes and chins. There's no quid pro quo, but that's the dealio.
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  • ThomasFremontThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    YellowSnow said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    YellowSnow said:

    @BearsWiin ??

    That's not the bellwether. That would be earlier this year when Chicago dropped it. Chicago, they of the high rep non-partisan free speach/no safe spaces Chicago. THAT was chintresting.

    There are a bunch of highly selective schools that have dropped it and the College Board must be shitting themselves. Some dropped it long ago.

    You actually don't have to submit GRE scores for admission to Brown Maff PhD. My kid submitted, but it was a complete option. Brown Maff at the doctoral level is no joke. No GRE.

    In Cal's case, I don't think it was ever as big a deal as it was to the selective schools in the east, where it was a big chunk of your chance. At Cal, I have it on pretty good authority that finishing in the Top 10% of your HS class was the biggest swing in admission. So from a strategy standpoint, if you wanted Cal, you didn't go to Lakeside or Mercer Island or Bellevue, but rather, say, Snohomish or somewhere else where the competition isn't as keen. That top 10% thing has historically been yuge for UC admissions.
    Lakeside
    Mercer Island
    Bellevue

    One of these things is not like the others.
    Not really. They're all competitive high schools full of serious Asian students whose entire existence is predicated on getting into an elite school. All three. Don't make the @Ballz mistake of confusing Bellevue's former football dynasty with the a good % of its students. It's a serious place.
    If Lakeside is equal to decent public schools, what are they paying for?
    I didn't say they were equal. But depending on the public school and the program, you can get the same level of rigor you get at Lakeside. A solid IB program will do that.

    People will still pay for Lakeside for a myriad of other reasons.

    The main point being, the three schools I listed have lots of kids who are working very hard to attend elite schools. Making it into the top 10% at those places will be an order of magnitude more difficult than it would be at, say, Lake Stevens High School or Mount Si.
    No argument there. I’m mostly poking fun at people dropping thousands monthly on a high school education you can get for free.
    Pretty expensive to live in the Bellevue school district.
    People that can afford Lakeside can afford to live in Bellevue.
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  • MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    ThomasFremont said:

    YellowSnow said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    YellowSnow said:

    @BearsWiin ??

    That's not the bellwether. That would be earlier this year when Chicago dropped it. Chicago, they of the high rep non-partisan free speach/no safe spaces Chicago. THAT was chintresting.

    There are a bunch of highly selective schools that have dropped it and the College Board must be shitting themselves. Some dropped it long ago.

    You actually don't have to submit GRE scores for admission to Brown Maff PhD. My kid submitted, but it was a complete option. Brown Maff at the doctoral level is no joke. No GRE.

    In Cal's case, I don't think it was ever as big a deal as it was to the selective schools in the east, where it was a big chunk of your chance. At Cal, I have it on pretty good authority that finishing in the Top 10% of your HS class was the biggest swing in admission. So from a strategy standpoint, if you wanted Cal, you didn't go to Lakeside or Mercer Island or Bellevue, but rather, say, Snohomish or somewhere else where the competition isn't as keen. That top 10% thing has historically been yuge for UC admissions.
    Lakeside
    Mercer Island
    Bellevue

    One of these things is not like the others.
    Not really. They're all competitive high schools full of serious Asian students whose entire existence is predicated on getting into an elite school. All three. Don't make the @Ballz mistake of confusing Bellevue's former football dynasty with the a good % of its students. It's a serious place.
    If Lakeside is equal to decent public schools, what are they paying for?
    I didn't say they were equal. But depending on the public school and the program, you can get the same level of rigor you get at Lakeside. A solid IB program will do that.

    People will still pay for Lakeside for a myriad of other reasons.

    The main point being, the three schools I listed have lots of kids who are working very hard to attend elite schools. Making it into the top 10% at those places will be an order of magnitude more difficult than it would be at, say, Lake Stevens High School or Mount Si.
    No argument there. I’m mostly poking fun at people dropping thousands monthly on a high school education you can get for free.
    Pretty expensive to live in the Bellevue school district.
    People that can afford Lakeside can afford to live in Bellevue.
    What is they spend so much on tuition the have to live in Renton with Grinolds. Ever think of that?
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  • ThomasFremontThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    MikeDamone said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    YellowSnow said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    YellowSnow said:

    @BearsWiin ??

    That's not the bellwether. That would be earlier this year when Chicago dropped it. Chicago, they of the high rep non-partisan free speach/no safe spaces Chicago. THAT was chintresting.

    There are a bunch of highly selective schools that have dropped it and the College Board must be shitting themselves. Some dropped it long ago.

    You actually don't have to submit GRE scores for admission to Brown Maff PhD. My kid submitted, but it was a complete option. Brown Maff at the doctoral level is no joke. No GRE.

    In Cal's case, I don't think it was ever as big a deal as it was to the selective schools in the east, where it was a big chunk of your chance. At Cal, I have it on pretty good authority that finishing in the Top 10% of your HS class was the biggest swing in admission. So from a strategy standpoint, if you wanted Cal, you didn't go to Lakeside or Mercer Island or Bellevue, but rather, say, Snohomish or somewhere else where the competition isn't as keen. That top 10% thing has historically been yuge for UC admissions.
    Lakeside
    Mercer Island
    Bellevue

    One of these things is not like the others.
    Not really. They're all competitive high schools full of serious Asian students whose entire existence is predicated on getting into an elite school. All three. Don't make the @Ballz mistake of confusing Bellevue's former football dynasty with the a good % of its students. It's a serious place.
    If Lakeside is equal to decent public schools, what are they paying for?
    I didn't say they were equal. But depending on the public school and the program, you can get the same level of rigor you get at Lakeside. A solid IB program will do that.

    People will still pay for Lakeside for a myriad of other reasons.

    The main point being, the three schools I listed have lots of kids who are working very hard to attend elite schools. Making it into the top 10% at those places will be an order of magnitude more difficult than it would be at, say, Lake Stevens High School or Mount Si.
    No argument there. I’m mostly poking fun at people dropping thousands monthly on a high school education you can get for free.
    Pretty expensive to live in the Bellevue school district.
    People that can afford Lakeside can afford to live in Bellevue.
    What is they spend so much on tuition the have to live in Renton with Grinolds. Ever think of that?
    As if Paul Allen’s ghost would allow Renton trash into his school.
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  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 44,833 Standard Supporter
    YellowSnow said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    YellowSnow said:

    @BearsWiin ??

    That's not the bellwether. That would be earlier this year when Chicago dropped it. Chicago, they of the high rep non-partisan free speach/no safe spaces Chicago. THAT was chintresting.

    There are a bunch of highly selective schools that have dropped it and the College Board must be shitting themselves. Some dropped it long ago.

    You actually don't have to submit GRE scores for admission to Brown Maff PhD. My kid submitted, but it was a complete option. Brown Maff at the doctoral level is no joke. No GRE.

    In Cal's case, I don't think it was ever as big a deal as it was to the selective schools in the east, where it was a big chunk of your chance. At Cal, I have it on pretty good authority that finishing in the Top 10% of your HS class was the biggest swing in admission. So from a strategy standpoint, if you wanted Cal, you didn't go to Lakeside or Mercer Island or Bellevue, but rather, say, Snohomish or somewhere else where the competition isn't as keen. That top 10% thing has historically been yuge for UC admissions.
    Lakeside
    Mercer Island
    Bellevue

    One of these things is not like the others.
    Not really. They're all competitive high schools full of serious Asian students whose entire existence is predicated on getting into an elite school. All three. Don't make the @Ballz mistake of confusing Bellevue's former football dynasty with the a good % of its students. It's a serious place.
    If Lakeside is equal to decent public schools, what are they paying for?
    I didn't say they were equal. But depending on the public school and the program, you can get the same level of rigor you get at Lakeside. A solid IB program will do that.

    People will still pay for Lakeside for a myriad of other reasons.

    The main point being, the three schools I listed have lots of kids who are working very hard to attend elite schools. Making it into the top 10% at those places will be an order of magnitude more difficult than it would be at, say, Lake Stevens High School or Mount Si.
    No argument there. I’m mostly poking fun at people dropping thousands monthly on a high school education you can get for free.
    Pretty expensive to live in the Bellevue school district.


    @GoncharoffDawg, true?


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  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,150 Founders Club
    creepycoug said:

    YellowSnow said:

    MikeDamone said:

    YellowSnow said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    creepycoug said:

    YellowSnow said:

    @BearsWiin ??

    That's not the bellwether. That would be earlier this year when Chicago dropped it. Chicago, they of the high rep non-partisan free speach/no safe spaces Chicago. THAT was chintresting.

    There are a bunch of highly selective schools that have dropped it and the College Board must be shitting themselves. Some dropped it long ago.

    You actually don't have to submit GRE scores for admission to Brown Maff PhD. My kid submitted, but it was a complete option. Brown Maff at the doctoral level is no joke. No GRE.

    In Cal's case, I don't think it was ever as big a deal as it was to the selective schools in the east, where it was a big chunk of your chance. At Cal, I have it on pretty good authority that finishing in the Top 10% of your HS class was the biggest swing in admission. So from a strategy standpoint, if you wanted Cal, you didn't go to Lakeside or Mercer Island or Bellevue, but rather, say, Snohomish or somewhere else where the competition isn't as keen. That top 10% thing has historically been yuge for UC admissions.
    Lakeside
    Mercer Island
    Bellevue

    One of these things is not like the others.
    Not really. They're all competitive high schools full of serious Asian students whose entire existence is predicated on getting into an elite school. All three. Don't make the @Ballz mistake of confusing Bellevue's former football dynasty with the a good % of its students. It's a serious place.
    If Lakeside is equal to decent public schools, what are they paying for?
    I didn't say they were equal. But depending on the public school and the program, you can get the same level of rigor you get at Lakeside. A solid IB program will do that.

    People will still pay for Lakeside for a myriad of other reasons.

    The main point being, the three schools I listed have lots of kids who are working very hard to attend elite schools. Making it into the top 10% at those places will be an order of magnitude more difficult than it would be at, say, Lake Stevens High School or Mount Si.
    No argument there. I’m mostly poking fun at people dropping thousands monthly on a high school education you can get for free.
    Pretty expensive to live in the Bellevue school district.
    Im pro vouchers and school choice.
    They would seem to help improve equality of opportunity which should be the goal.

    I’m also anti teacher unions.
    This is my last upvote until you join forces with good and publicly condemn OBK.

    What I need is an announcement that you're going to look into his racist rants. If you don't, I will withhold upvotes and chins. There's no quid pro quo, but that's the dealio.
    I only do real quid pro quo, counselor. If you buy a HH @Swaye ’s Wam level subscription, I will declare OBK rayciss. It will carry extra weight based on my reputation as being perhaps the most level headed poster in HH history.
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