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yeah this ranking isnt accurate, if you go by FCAT the florida standarized test, we should be #1 or #2 that comes out of our county, but we are unranked while many of the schools from our county are. Also our school has more silver knight (very prestigious and difficult scholarship contest in dade/broward counties) winners than any other schools after only having 2 graduating classes, and we still are unranked. But there really is no way to accurately rank a school seeing as how every school system and school is different the only way a ranking could be made is if all the schools took the same test and thier scores are how they are ranked. Our school many people do not take AP tests (we dont have IB) because the school has a large number of people in the arts magnet in our school, and they arent allowed to take AP classes or atleast are pressured into not taking the tests. Also the teachers from AP classes dont want some people taking the tests because they dont want thier rankings changed (our AP calc class last year of close to 70 peopl had 100% pass rate)

wow, i feel cool now. a bunch of the schools around us made the cut, but neither milford or lakeland made it. (milford and lakeland are the 2 schools that make up our team) does not making it mean that we seriously score that bad on tests??

hmmmm......private schools, aren't listed, so Loomis isn't on the list...

Private schools are not listed and neither are public schools that have entrance exams. This means that a lot of FIRST schools will not show up on the list. The list is interesting but meaningless in my opinion.

Hm. I didn't say it was accurate, I just found this method of ranking quite interesting...

I agree that there are many good schools out there that may not offer any APs at all and thereby couldn't make it on the list.

I don't know if this is happening in other schools or states but I know so many people at my old high school are taking junior college classes instead of AP classes because the University of California system no longer accepts most AP units. I just thought that was interesting....hmm, I wonder if AP's are being phased out.

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Originally posted by Kristina
I don't know if this is happening in other schools or states but I know so many people at my old high school are taking junior college classes instead of AP classes because the University of California system no longer accepts most AP units. I just thought that was interesting....hmm, I wonder if AP's are being phased out.

thats weird... recently I read that AP's were on the rise and they may eventually replace the SAT's. I think it was in that article in Newsweek as a matter of fact...

Cory

As I understand it, this ranking essentially boils down to the following formula:
(# of APs taken) / (# of Graduating Seniors)

So, there are two ways to get your score up:

1: Take more APs!
2: Cut down on the number of seniors who graduate per year!

My school is number 383 by this list, but I would like to propose a slightly different ranking study: Lets change # of APs taken to # of passed AP exams! Sounds like a more accurate indication of school merit to me!

That's a lot of HS...

Note the number of HS: 14,000.

So ~800 FRC teams/ 14,000 HS = 0.057142857142857142857...

That's only 6% of the HS in this country that
are member of FIRST Robotics!

:eek:

Bridgewater-Raritan High School is not on the list.

The Internationl Academy, the school that 469 is from, was ranked first. There's a big picture in the Newsweek of the team and their robot.

I think its only a top high school to you if you're in AP or IB Classes. If that made any sense :p

Well, you know why the International Academy ranked first? All students there are required to take at least 6 IB classes, and some even take 7. So, naturally, the number of IB tests taken would be very, very large.

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Originally posted by J Flex 188
hmm...sometimes im grateful that Canada's education system differs in ways from the American system. Your schools probably offer more opportunity and richer experiences, not in monetary terms i mean, but overall. And at other times, the AP/IB debates rage on, drawing attention to any disparity between rural and city schools. For now, Canada's highest ranked schools are most likely private schools, much like the ones listed, but i am confident that public schools would rank quite high as well, including woburn. the only problem would be how to incoporate different streams (we have gifted, academic, applied) courses in our school into a ranking system.

This reminds me.. anyone know of any schools in canada that offer AP classes? i hear unionville does, but that was from a friend so i cant be sure = )

i have to agree with you. i like the canadian education system. i think it makes more sense in many ways compared to the american system.

and about which canadian schools offer AP classes, i have no idea which ones do. however, i know that it is still possible to take an AP course and write the exam regardless of what school you go to. your school should have a booklet?? (i dont know what to call it) with details for taking AP courses. it's too late to enroll in them now, it might be helpful if you are planning for next year. hope that helps.