ETHS is a megaschool with 6,000 students. So they want to send up their best. Why not let a 3rd party choose 4 students at random, and send them up?
I wonder if this mega school has schools within the schools.
Often the AP and/or magnet programs are literally overlayed seperate schools which have no real conection with the school at large.
Essentially they help the scores for the school by having "ringers" to compensate for the low scoring students.
ETHS is a school of about 3300 students, not 6000. I know that it is not one of the most important facts, but it concerns me where this info is coming from. Limbaugh pulled his info out of thin air, and it appears you did the same.