Everyone knows what the tiers are for schools.

It's not elitist.

All schools are not made the same.

-Rudey
--You should accept that now

Some of us want to go to better schools, get better jobs, go to better grad schools, drive better cars, live in better houses, and have our kids do the same.

You chose to go to your school and can choose the same for your kids and others have the right to choose for themselves.

-Rudey

Aren't there actual tiers in law schools?

There are tiers for every kind of school:
http://www.google.com/search?q=schoo...en-US:official

-Rudey

Why do people always jump to hate on Alum? It's like one person hates them, so then the others will try and follow suit to hate her too.

Jealousy's a bitch

Because women attack in packs?

-Rudey
--Like wolves.

You know what else is a bitch? Debutanting a girl who had just been debutanted 15 minutes ago.

Whats the difference between that and a sweet sixteen?

Sure. I'm not going to be sexist and say only boys can debutant a girl. Girls can debutant a guy as well. Anyone can debutantize anyone.

I did IB.. my high school had a very limited selection of AP classes, so I went IB. AP was considered 2nd rate at my school, but we were told that we could take the AP exam after taking the IB equivalent.

A followup to my post from the other IB thread....

Many of my students who graduated from IB, and went to UF...actually FLUNKED OUT!

Victims of being "away from Mommy & Daddy."

Nonetheless, I still don't understand why a kid would want to zip through college faster than 4 years. The real world is for the rest of your life (as we all know)...!

Some guy I went to high school with finished his BA in three years, and he worked 30 hours a week. He was very ambitious, but I know for a fact he had no life and no fun during those three years.

An observation: I teach Spanish at a local college and have noticed this: kids who go to my children's high school who took 3-4 years of h.s. Spanish and take the placement test usually end up in the 3rd or 4th semester of our (demanding) Spanish classes. If they go through AP and take the test, all they end up in is second semester. The AP teacher actually advises their students not to take the AP test, to just take a placement test when they get to college.

AGDee, I'm with you on the electives. My children rarely have any room for electives, whether they take the CPA or CP track.

Two of my daughters took Accel, a Georgia program in which high school seniors can attend college classes. BlazerCheer was tired of high school and did all college classes and the other took all but science at college. Both entered college as sophomores with all the boring core classes out of the way (and with great GPAs). They've been able to take lots of courses at their universities that they really wanted to as a result...i.e., my daughter who's a horse science major was able to take horse courses from her first semester there instead of waiting for a year.

I did IB, but some of the AP courses as well. I'm glad I did IB, because not all of the AP classes I would have wanted to take were available in my high school. I don't think my workload was any heavier than my friends who just did Honors.

I COULD have taken a year's worth of credit, but I enjoyed college way too much to rush through. One of my sorority sister's took her year of credit, but got her Master's degree in one year--so she was still in Providence for four years.