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Originally Posted by cdr1122334455
Oh but wait i haven't even gotten to my good point yet, they didn't even count some of the more famous schools in the Nation that are, in fact Public, schools like Stuyvesant in New York (home of 694) or Thomas Jefferson in Va or the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Ill. or Lowell High in San Francisco so you may be in the top 100, but not really the top 100 in the nation. The reason they gave why those schools weren't on the list? They were too selective, the schools that are on the top of the list, guess what! they are mostly selective public schools!
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Originally Posted by Newsweek
Newsweek excluded schools with strict academic admissions criteria that prohibit motivated, average students from attending.
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If a school has a magnet program, it is included if they have non magnet students. TJ here in Fairfax is a public school, but is an entirely magnet school that is highly selective. If it was on the list, TJ would be number 4, at 7.142. I looked for the number one school on the list, but was only able to find a Jefferson County school district, but no "Jefferson County" school.
H-B Woodlawn, in Arlington, is only open to students by a lottery system, and AP tests are required. That kind of skews the results for this list, but it is still a really neat school.
TJ is usually listed as one of the best public schools in the country. SAT average of 1482, 97.8% go straight to a four year university, 81% of the teachers have masters or PhDs, robotics labs....the school is awesome. They have a biotech lab where they play with recombinant DNA and do DNA sequencing!
Most of the labs are listed here.
At any rate, my sister is at TJ right now, and it is a hard school, but she likes it.
Wetzel