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Originally posted by evulish
Heh. The way they judged that doesn't seem quite right.
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I agree, the criteria for judging seems kind of wrong. <RANT> Their ranking was determined only by the number of AP and IB tests taken by all students divided by the number of graduating seniors. So there’s absolutely no consideration of how well the students do, just how many students take the exams. Theoretically a school could have all their Freshmen and Sophomores take one AP each, all the Juniors take 2, and all the Seniors take 3 and they’d me at the top of the list, even if none of the kids even passed the tests. And even worse, they’re kind of inconsistent in the schools they rank. They don’t rank magnet schools that choose more than half their students by academic criteria(which seems like a perfectly fair way to do it), but they do rank magnet schools that choose between their applicants using a lottery(which seems kind of unfair to me). They say this is because the former pick only the best students and thus have an unfair advantage, but it seems to me that the schools that pick by a lottery have mostly the same types of students. Most magnet school is only going to attract more intelligent students who push themselves(or are pushed by their parents), regardless of whether the final students are picked by academic criteria or a random lottery. Besides, the intelligence of the student body shouldn’t matter too much when their only selection criteria is the number of AP tests taken
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Ok, I’m done. Back to your regularly scheduled reading
. And congrats again to team 469 on the big picture in a national magazine! Its too bad they couldn’t have focused the article more on FIRST and your team…