He was graduated from high school ranking first in his class.
In a recent interview, the publisher, Kerry F. Dyer, and the editor, Brian Kelly, referred to the high school ranking as part of a "franchise".
Oxford expects 1400 on the SAT (32 on the ACT), three SAT subject tests at 700 each, top scores on at least two Advanced Placement tests and high school ranking in the top 2percentt.
A few days before the issue with the high school ranking was released, Mr. Dyer was riding on a commuter train into Manhattan, and overheard two fathers talking about where their children were applying to college.
AND yet — and yet — it is hard not to get a little queasy hearing Mr. Dyer explain how the ranking is the magazine's franchise so that, he said, when you think high school ranking, you think U.S. News, not only the particular issue of the magazine but also the Web site content and spinoff books.
According to a September 2002 high school ranking by Worth magazine, 3.67% of Stuyvesant students went on to attend Harvard, Princeton, and Yale Universities, ranking it as the 9th top public high school in the United States and 120th among all schools, public or private.
"And it doesn't make any sense for colleges to ignore everything in a student's file except high school rank.
This house is in the Myers Park school district, which has a high school ranked among the nation's best by Newsweek.
The other is the rising stigma that surrounds coaches who are trying to climb into the college game out of Amateur Athletic Union basketball or the high school ranks.
"In all other state measures such as high school rank, grade point average or those in combination with a test like the SAT or ACT are used to determine who is awarded these scholarships".
Weber has rounded out his roster with some of the biggest names from the Illinois high school ranks, dispelling talk-show grousing that he can't recruit top-level homegrown talent.
