Best High Schools

So Newsweek decided to create a list of the best high schools in the country. But when I looked at the list, I noticed that my high school - consistently rated highly on other lists - was nowhere to be found. Well, their rules specifically excluded magnet schools (see question 6), which strikes me as odd. Isn't that a little like doing a list of the best colleges, but excluding Ivy League schools because they have an unfair prestige advantage? And that's not the only problem they had with their methodology. Proving once again that these sort of lists are really mostly about bragging rights.