Students at competitive high schools are still saying, 'I need to apply early somewhere.'

The center is a competitive, regional high school for gifted students.

I graduated from a competitive suburban public school where rank was everything.

Rockway remains a competitive school with many of the larger schools in the region.

It is a highly competitive school, and the students typically feel tremendous pressure to succeed.

We were an ordinary white, professional family, with no inside track at any of the competitive public schools.

A significant portion of the school's graduates go on to attend college, including the most competitive schools in the country.

East is a highly competitive school in which students typically score above the national average on standardized tests.

I go to a really competitive high school, and grades are really important to everybody there.

But he would need an impressive art portfolio to be admitted to the highly competitive school.