Is Hawai'i education usually bad?

[Ian_Lee]

There is certain advantage in becoming a National Merit semifinalist. For example, you pay only half tuition at the University of Southern California (but the school is not that great anyway).

[Ian_Lee]

The hardest school to enter is not Harvard. They are Air Force Academy and Curtis. Both are extremely selective.

[Arktikos]

Originally Posted by Ian_Lee

The hardest school to enter is not Harvard. They are Air Force Academy and Curtis. Both are extremely selective.

I believe it's Stanford. Check out acceptance rates. Air Force is 12%-that's higher than just about any Ivy.

[earthisle]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/reneemo.../#5fda7fb43897

Hawai'i is ranked 39th but here are states that are worse:

40 South Carolina 42.24 40 46
41 Arkansas 42.18 34 50
42 West Virginia 39.91 44 31
43 Oregon 39.79 42 49
44 Alabama 38.98 43 45
45 Mississippi 38.87 45 43
46 Nevada 38.54 47 36
47 Arizona 37.53 48 30
48 Alaska 35.87 50 33
49 District of Columbia 33.62 49 48
50 Louisiana 32.50 46 51
51 New Mexico 31.53 51

Interesting right? I know of at least one family that moved to Oregon for better schools, even though they're ranked 43rd.

The states just above Hawaii are:

36 Texas 46.90 35 41
37 California 46.33 38 21
38 Georgia 45.67 37

[prospectheightsresident]

Originally Posted by Ian_Lee

Don't look like an Ivy. Usually Ivy takes less students from Hawaii as this school does. Top Ivy's admission rate is just about 5% nationally.

It is an Ivy. Ivy League acceptance rates for the class of 2023 ranged from 4.5% at Harvard to 10.6% at Cornell. In between, UPenn had an acceptance rate of 7.4%, Dartmouth admitted 7.9% of applicants, Brown admitted over 6% of applicants, Columbia around 5%, and Princeton and Yale just under 6%: https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/0...rown-princeton

While I don't feel comfortable sharing my university due to privacy concerns, I note that being from underrepresented states (in addition to underrepresented minority groups, which most of the Hawaii admitted students to my university were) increase your odds of being accepted to these schools. Thus, I wouldn't read into the admitted students rate from Hawaii and try to tie it to the national acceptance rate for one of the Ivies.

[Open-D]

Originally Posted by axelthefox

The education system here seems way below the average. When i was in school back on the east coast. I learned about stuff like American and European History. But seems in Hawai'i i didn't learn much of anything.

Makes me wonder what they even teaching in schools in Hawai'i.

One time i mentioned the country Wales and Welsh language and a teacher in hawaii thought i meant whales. *facedesk*

Well, in part because it is state-run and not city-run (if there were cities). People move to Los Alamitos, CA to live inside the Los Al school district. Cities can do great things, but... oh, never mind!!!