[quote=Eugene]
If your kid does not clear all the requirements (written and unwritten), that severely limits his chances of getting into a good university. [/quote]
If you can’t clear those simple requirement, you’ll be in for a rude awakening when you get to UCSD anyways. I felt very unprepared when I got to UCSD, even though I did pretty well in MMHS. I can’t tell you if I would have felt less prepared if I went to TPHS or not.

[quote=Eugene]That does not agree with facts. Numbers of AP exams taken per senior last year: Poway High – 1.55, Mt Carmel – 1.85, RBHS – 1.89, MMHS – 1.96, UCHS – 2.61. How is it possible that RBHS have more AP classes, but its students take fewer tests?[/quote]
The real question is, what’s the pass rate of those AP test.

[quote=Eugene]And those are both factors in university admissions. No university is going to treat GPA 3.5 from TPHS equally to GPA 4.0 from MMHS just because TPHS is “stronger”. A valedictorian from MMHS will get admitted to UCSD no questions asked, and an equally able student in TPHS will have to jump through hoops (possibly ending up in SDSU or a community college).[/quote]
I totally agree with this. You should then go to SDSU and get 4.0 if you want to go to Med school instead of trying to do it at UCSD. But that doesn’t change the fact that some parents want to push their kids harder and they’re being limited due to their current economic situation. By this same argument, we all should send our kids to school down south. They’ll be valedictorian much easier. Right?