our cac's [college academic counslers] send out a letter with each transcript explaining the reasons behind this, besides which, most colleges have heard of the school anyways.
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Well, since I have nothing better to do, I shall put in a better explaination.
I goto a mathmatics and science academy, which takes 200 students out of a pool of applicants. These students generally represent the top 1% or so in the state. Class rank, gpa, and validvictorian would cause an extreame amount of stress for these students. Can you imagine going from the #1 in your class to say, #50 or #100? Bam, you'd be dead. But we live three years on campus [much like college style] and from almost all reports, college is a breeze compaired to this place. I've made some great friends, many coming with me to college. Graduations soo close, we're all in tears [some figurativly, some not]. I still havent fully come to realize that i'm leaving the place I've called home for the last three years. Living together with the same 200 people in my class [600 in the school] I haven't fully comprehended the inability i will have to see any of them at any given point in the day... sigh...