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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.YellowSnow said:
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. -
I laffed.
Have always felt that ratings within out education systems should be based on inequities.
I feel better now
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Doesn't really matter now that we have the insect apocalypse to deal with
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You wrote those words for the sole and express purpose of frightening me.RaceBannon said:Doesn't really matter now that we have the insect apocalypse to deal with
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Lakesidecreepycoug said:
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.YellowSnow said:
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.
Mercer Island
Bellevue
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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.ThomasFremont said:
Lakesidecreepycoug said:
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.YellowSnow said:
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.
Mercer Island
Bellevue
One of these things is not like the others. -
If Lakeside is equal to decent public schools, what are they paying for?creepycoug said:
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.ThomasFremont said:
Lakesidecreepycoug said:
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.YellowSnow said:
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.
Mercer Island
Bellevue
One of these things is not like the others. -
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.ThomasFremont said:
If Lakeside is equal to decent public schools, what are they paying for?creepycoug said:
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.ThomasFremont said:
Lakesidecreepycoug said:
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.YellowSnow said:
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.
Mercer Island
Bellevue
One of these things is not like the others.
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.creepycoug said:
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.ThomasFremont said:
If Lakeside is equal to decent public schools, what are they paying for?creepycoug said:
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.ThomasFremont said:
Lakesidecreepycoug said:
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.YellowSnow said:
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.
Mercer Island
Bellevue
One of these things is not like the others.
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.
