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Four public high schools named as the best in the United States have much in common. All four high schools have high academic requirements for students interested in admission. The four also offer a mix of challenging courses. And they all have a large percentage of Asian-American students. The top schools were chosen by the Niche.com website. Niche.com says it examined nearly 24,000 U.S. public high schools. It rated the schools based on quality of their education programs and teachers, as well as student and parent comments. The top four schools are: Stuyvesant High School in New York City; High Technology High School in New Jersey; Staten Island Technical High School in New York City; and Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia. The fifth best high school is Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Illinois, according to Niche.com. Stevenson is the only school among the top five that does not limit admissions. The school is open to all students in its community, near Chicago.
* name A as B = A를 B로 선정하다/ have ~ in common = 공통적으로 지니다/ academic requirement = 학업적 자격(필수) 조건/ admission = 입학/ a mix of ~ = ~의 혼합/ rate = 평가하다/ based on ~ = ~에 근거[기반]하여/ community = 주민, 지역 사회
Enrollment of Asian-Americans at the top high schools continues to grow. At Stuyvesant, 73 percent of students are Asian-Americans. The rate is 63 percent at Thomas Jefferson, 52 percent at High Technology, 41 percent at Staten Island Technical and 21 percent at Stevenson. At the top four schools, officials say there is only one reason for so many students being Asian-American. They say the Asian-American students are getting much better test scores. At Stuyvesant, Staten Island Technical and High Technology, students are chosen based on how they do in mathematics and verbal admission tests. At Jefferson, students are asked to take a test and write a paper. Only a small percentage of the boys and girls get accepted. At Stuyvesant, 28,000 students apply for 935 openings.
* enrollment = 등록, 기재; 입학, 입대/ verbal = 언어[말]의/ write a paper[thesis, monograph] = 논문을 쓰다/ get accpeted = 입학 허가를 받다/ apply for ~ = ~에 지원하다/ opening = 자리
