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Originally posted by DeltAlum
This school, apparantely is one of real excellence, (By the way, who rates a school #3 or whatever, by the way, and what are the criteria. I suspect that a lot of schools think they're in the "top ten," whatever that means. The biggest school in our district had 43 National Merit Scholars last year and has over 90 state athletic championships -- does that put it in the "top ten" Sorry, I digress.).
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Ratings are done by Newsweek and USA Today, and any of those magazine/newspapers that do the top 100 HS...There is an organization thats in charge of it that comes to check out our school every year but I can't remember the name...
Every school has to submit their statistics every year to the govt...besides state awards in sports, grades are really difficult at GBN- I graduated with a 3.6 and I was only barely in the top 40% of my class of 480 people. They rank you on the facility you use, # of computers per child, ratings of teachers, etc..
Also, about transferring...I live in unincorporated Northbrook, practically Glenview which is where our sister hs is, Glenbrook South. I would have had to pay out of district fees to go there, even though its 4 minutes from my house. GBN is almost 20. You have to petition to the glenbrook township board...transferring to GBS (which is the only option as far as a cheap transfer) is going to be impossible b/c the school is really overcrowded.
My parents looked into sending me to a neighboring HS before my fresh. year so I could be with my friends....but it was $3000 a year. And its public.
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