May 31, 2005 01:06
Pembroke Hill School class of 2005 (the people I should have graduated with; my friends, classmates, and peers for 5 years):
Number of people in the class: 91
Number of people going to Ivy League schools (or MIT): 10 (11%)
Number of people going to generally considered "very good" schools: 34 (37%)
Number of people going to generally considered "decent" schools: 16 (18%)
Number of people going to KU: 8 (9%)
Number of National Merit finalists/semifinalists/commended: 31 (34%)
Number of people who got into first/second choice schools: 85 (93%)
Number of people on facebook before they graduate high schooll: 7 (8%)
Number of those who are not preppy girls but rather, very surprisingly, nerdy tree-loving boys: 1 (14%)
General Pembroke Hill:
Number of products in bookstore only because they're in Ivy league bookstores: 31 (about)
Number of points in the Strategic Plan: 35
Number that have to do with academic quality: 4 (11%)
Number of people drug tested on 4/20: 3 (1%)
Number of APs taken this year: 466
Number of teachers with doctorates: 10 (8%)
Number of those teaching math or science: 0
Number of highschool math teachers who were not jocks/cheerleaders in high school/college: 0
Number of really really hot guys who were in a class with me even though they're three years older and who once asked me and Chloe if he could watch us debate and who according to rumor is gay but according to facebook is straight: 1
Number of bitchy principals who almost wouldn't let me have a senior picture last year until my mom made a fuss, and who this year decided to take the results of a health/wellness survey and use them to justify drug tests, so that now students won't feel comfortable answering honestly on surveys of that type, destroying their utility (on the other hand, the students left are so drugged up/drunk they might not figure out they shouldn't answer honestly):1
BVN class of 2005 (the public school I should have gone to):
Number of people I know: 105
Number of people I hate(d): 72, give or take (69%)
Number of people I know going to "good" schools:
Number of people I know going to "decent" schools:
Number of people I hate who are on facebook before they've graduated: 3
To be completed later, when I have the BVN college list in front of me