You forgot Northwestern University in your initial post. Seven (7) Groton students matriculated at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois from the classes of 2014-2018.
@merc81 I am really confused if I go to your link here are the top 10 schools for Groton at the same link you provided. Why is your list different than mine?
Georgetown University 26
Harvard University 22
University of Chicago 21
Brown University 19
New York University 13
Bowdoin College 12
Dartmouth College 12
Princeton University 12
University of Virginia 11
Yale University 11
@ReluctantDad : My SPS list & your Groton list are apples to apples comparisons. @merc81’s list is concentration of students at each school in order to create a bit of Groton culture at that college or university.
For this it would be hard to overlook the St. Grotlesex designation, which serves to properly group these schools fairly closely by founding dates as well: St. Paul’s (1856), St. Mark’s (1865), Groton (1884), Middlesex (1901). Others could include familiar names from Exeter in New Hampshire to St. Andrew’s in Delaware.
Groton boards 87%.
@CaliMex: Note that the University of Chicago does appear (#6).
OK, so Scripps has about 5.5 Groton kids per thousand, 5/1000 at Bowdoin, 3/1000 at Dartmouth, and 2/1000 at Brown. What insight does this give us? Not sure the campuses’ cultures are becoming Grotonized at these levels…
Groton was chosen as a school representative of certain attributes that may transfer well to the college level. Nonetheless, a meaningful answer may derive from an academic basis. Groton, for example, excels in the teaching of Latin and Greek (https://www.groton.org/page/news-detail?pk=889346). Interests such as these can continue more naturally in college if a sufficient base of students enters with strong preparation.
… but only if the students are interested in pursuing Latin and Greek in college. I only know two Groton grads and neither took a single related class in college… Do most continue with the Classics?
Maybe I am just cynical. But could this be a reflection that certain colleges just love well-connected rich (white) kids more than others? For example, Georgetown probably has the least diverse student body, both racially and socioeconomically among top-25 (USN rank) colleges (the total FA they gave out was far lower than some others).
To the OP : “Groton-like colleges” - Do you refer to colleges that Groton students like, or do you seek information on colleges tha have similarities to Groton?
@Golfgr8: The normalized ranking in the orginal post points toward colleges that share enrollment aspects with Groton, and therefore these colleges appear “Groton-like” based on this particular statistical viewpoint. As a corollary, in creating these levels of representation, applicants from Groton seem to have revealed a preference for the colleges listed. Further opinions on the topic would be interesting to see (though note that the single-year sample limitation has already been acknowledged).
Although the thread title might suggest otherwise, Groton serves as only a case example. For another example, this was calculated a few years ago and was based on the concentration of representation at the listed colleges for Forbes’ #1 ranked Trinity School (minimum 5 TS matriculants, 2011-2015):
That’s funny - I had actually noticed that my Scripps kid knows a weirdly large number of people from Groton, but I’d assumed it was just a friends-of-friends networking effect.