The former daughter's freshman class in '98 was 450. The senior class was 457 (transfers in). All 457 were accepted by at least two colleges/universities. The graduating class had a combined total of over $3 Million in scholarships and over $2 Million in grants.
It was a public high school.
OK, so it was a public high school endowed by a private bequest, and it was competitive admission for the academically gifted across the city. The lowest academic level classes were AP - most kids were enrolled in courses that were accepted for college credit. Everyone took a foreign language and went on a 3-week trip to where that language was the native tongue. [They did fundraising for the trip, but the money went into a collective pot so that everybody got to go and had the same amount of spending cash. (Yes, that's socialism and allows some slackers to get a free ride on the backs of thoese kids who really hustle, but since the majority of the finances came from the endowment I can let it slide.)]
And the icing on the cake for the former daughter's HS experience? Her lily-white butt qualified her for minority status! Yes, I milked that cow for all it was worth.
stay safe.
