Elite High School

I attended the senior awards night at Garfield High School last night. This is an elite high school. The senior class of around 300 students included 152 students who are Washington State Honors Award Recipients, indicating they are in the top 10% of Washington State high school graduates. According to the program, the senior class also included 17 National Merit Finalists. Of the 208(!) graduates accepted at and headed for 4-year colleges or universities this fall, three are going to Harvard, one to Yale, one to Columbia, one to Cornell, one to MIT, and 57 to the nearby University of Washington.