Lowell High School's got a good reputation with the UCs and Ivy Leagues, or so I'm told, but it also has 40+ students to a class. University High School is supposed to be just as well-known (when you take into account that it is a private school, after all), but because I've been with public schools all my life and have no friends who go there, I'm uncertain whether the counselors there were just being biased. Both schools have elective classes I would be delighted to take, but I'm also very interested in how colleges might look at this.
If it's relevant at all, University (the private) has just under 400 students, whereas Lowell has 4000. Oddly enough, two perfect SAT scores came from UHS last year, and none from Lowell.
Would colleges like a UHS-graduated kid, or Lowell- graduated one, if they had the same SATs, GPAs, extracurriculars, etc. Which would you be more enthusiastic about attending?
2006-12-18 13:44:56 · 3 answers · asked by Anita 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Linkin, I'm already in Lowell, but am hoping to transfer out to a private high school. I've gotten mixed responses from others I've talked to, but I think I'd be better off in a smaller school. I'll be making my decision in April; thank you for the answers. :-)
2006-12-19 15:05:06 · update #1
Nice to hear so many good things about Lowell; I'm sure most alumni had a great experience there (they donate loads), but the year's been rough, to say the least. Tension has been running high, with a new principal and a recent antigay hate crime, though it may just have been coincidence that I entered hs just in time for a bad year.
2006-12-19 20:01:58 · update #2
It's a wash. Cept the Lowell kid's parents wouldn't have paid anything while the Uni kid would have paid an arm and a leg.
The question is, can you get into Lowell? Just cuz it's public doesn't mean anyone can get in. It's a magnet school.
To be honest, I have no idea which Uni you're talking about. If you live in SF, I can't think of any private high school called Uni that comes close to Lowell. My wife went to Lowell. The prestige, famous alumni, awesome course offerings, decent athletic program... it's a great school. School officials there keep in contact with the top universities just like the private schools. Your kid isn't going to slip thru the cracks like at most public schools.
The only Uni High I know of that is respected academically is all the way down in SoCal (Irvine). Plus, I think it's public as well. And if you're going to be down there, you might as well look into my alma mater. It's a tiny school (about 1000 kids from 7th-12th), but it's the 800 pound gorilla for public schools in California (hint: look in the city of Cerritos).
Looking back, if I had a choice of where to send my kids, I'd choose Lowell, even over my alma mater (just don't tell my wife).
2006-12-18 19:45:01 · answer #1 · answered by Linkin 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is really a very personal thing.
My two sons went to a small private school from Kindergarten through present (well, one's a freshman in college now, the other's a junior at the HS of the private school.) We have been delighted with the education they've had at the small private school...close relationships with teachers, no one "slips through the cracks," etc.
I can't imagine that colleges you'll be interested in will really make a final determination based on which school you went to, assuming "all else is equal" -- ie rigorous course loads, etc.
As I say, it's really a matter of personal taste and preference. I have a feeling it'll work out well for you whichever path you take!
Good luck.
2006-12-18 14:05:59 · answer #2 · answered by Shars 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"tell me if Im incorrect." ... you're incorrect! Anecdotal information like the type you secure on your question proves no longer something. i will additionally discover you "one youngster" from a private college with a 2200 who have been given into Harvard, and "one youngster" from a rundown public college who have been given a 2250 and have been given rejected from each and each of the Ivies! larger SAT scores are extra powerful. the entire factor of SATs is to furnish a "standardized" score equipment besides to the applicant's GPA, because of the fact GPA structures selection lots from college to college. and there's a lot extra to college admissions than SAT score. working example, grades? Extracurriculars, essays, and courses taken additionally rely. So that's thoroughly misguided to end, in keeping with a narrative that one youngster have been given in with an SAT of X and yet another youngster have been given rejected with a decrease SAT score of Y, that the faculty replaced into inspired with the Y score fullyyt using Y youngster's intense college, and replaced into unimpressed with the X score fullyyt using X youngster's intense college. If that replaced into relatively the case, do you think of there could be lots of inner maximum college and prep college young ones at Ivy faculties presently?
2016-10-05 11:55:00 · answer #3 · answered by elidia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋