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<p>Around 10%, better than USNWR average acceptance rates.</p>
<p>And USNWR also has overlaps in apps, acceptance. THat 7% nationwide accepted to Harvard includes kids who also got accepted to Yale, Princeton, etc.</p>
<p>So this is not a wild number of applications.</p>
<p>You really see the strong regional preferences when you look at a school-wide list like this. There are some great colleges across the country that nobody applied to, and dozens of candidates applied to some schools that are local.</p>
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Brooklyn Technical.
This looks like a very selective science magnet school, in fact maybe a very well-known one.<br>
I wonder how that affects admissions.</p>
<p>One interesting thing on the Brooklyn Tech schools–is the candidates that got in MIT …some had low SAT sections…</p>
<p>Like someone posted–it is a puzzle how some get in and some don’t</p>
<p>I think part of it is they want kids with a sense of who they are and ability to express their own voice in essays etc…</p>
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I noticed the Math SATs for that school were generally much better than the other sections. </p>
<p>I think kids may get some admissions brownie points for attending there because it is a well known high school. Thirty percent acceptance at Duke. Good luck at many good schools, except for Princeton. They got skunked there. Is the Dean of Princeton divorced from the principal of this school or something? ;)</p>
<p>Who can figure this stuff out?</p>
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Or perhaps the admissions rep didn’t get into that hs when they applied? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Heh Bovertine - As for me an my house, we are Sea Kings! I grew up here (went to Miraleste High School - yeah, I’m old) and would like to ask: Since when did UC Irvine get so damn hard to get into? Back in my day (hey you kids, get off my lawn! <em>shakes fist</em>) any idiot with a 3.0 could walk in and San Diego State was one step above Community College.</p>
<p>It is a fascinating read so thanks for posting it. </p>
<p>But I want to add that I am shocked that this kind of data would be made public, let alone put on the web. And that no one else seems to see a problem with this. For the CC audience it’s fine, we don’t know the names of the kids, but for those at the school, it seems like if a kid makes some of their applications or acceptance known, everyone gets to know all this personal information about them too. Its fine if you are applying to San Diego State with 10 others, quite another when you are the only kid accepted to Seattle U. </p>
<p>You could not do this in Canada as i think it would be violating our privacy laws and people would have a problem with it. Our Naviance is a bit skimpy as a result, since we need a big enough N for each school (across quite a few years) before they will make information public (so as to protect the information of individuals).</p>
<p>Our schools’ Naviance didn’t report by a student number – just points on a graph. Nowhere did it list Student #99, scores and schools applied to/acceptances, etc.</p>
<p>I’ve seen other charts that used points on a graph. Of course, it wasn’t too hard to track the results of the kid who had a 2400 SAT score and the 4.0 gpa…</p>
<p>Starbright, I was thinking exactly the same thing. As helpful as this information is for a lot of parents and college planners, I think it is terrible that kids can easily figure the names of their peers and then know all this information. I know the same goes with Naviance at our school, which is very small, since the data points are only from the last few years. The most obvious factor that identifies a kid is listing the school that they will attend.</p>
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I myself was a Sea King before they closed it down and opened it back up. My kid was a Panther.</p>
<p>The Brooklyn Tech info is really fascinating. Both Harvard and Yale taking kids with CR scores of 560 and 570 while passing over kids with much higher scores. And it’s not like these were kids who were very one-sided math geniuses, their math SAT and subject test scores are less than 700. I don’t know this high school, were these likely to be the only URMs out of the applicant pool from this school to H and Y? Could they be athletes or legacies? I wonder how these kids do in such competitive atmospheres once they get there.</p>
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<p>I thought the same thing at first but I don’t think it is a big problem. Look at these data. First, all the kids apply to so many schools, and there is a HUGE amount of overlap among hundreds of kids. To glean any info from this you would already need to several data points for an applicant, and then you would have to care enough to try to figure it out. If you already knoew enough data to figure out which kid it was, then that kid probably wouldn’t care what else you knew. I bet it is far harder than you think. Plus, this is acceptance data for last year. Even if you could figure it out (which I believe you could not) these kids are all long gone.</p>
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This is the one area where there could be a problem. I haven’t looked a this chart, but I know in our Naviance they do not allow the posting of data for schools with only a handful of applicants or acceptances. </p>
<p>Finally, none of this is mandatory. They ask you at the school if you are willing to have your info made public in this manner. Everybody knows about it (or most everybody who pays attention). If you have qualms about it tell them not to post it.</p>
<p>at my kids’ HS, the guidance dept. has naviance but doesn’t release the data for precisely the reason stated. it’s a very small school and determining which kid belonged to which stat would be very easy (and an invasion of privacy). OTOH, the idea of using five years of data could be very useful to parents and students who would like to see how the HS fares with certain schools, and I don’t think any given kid would be as identifiable.</p>
<p>We know from Naviance that some schools accept kids from our local specialized programs at a much higher rate than their general acceptance rate. It made some schools that look like impossible reaches more feasible from where we were sitting.</p>
<p>That said, we also know plenty of 2350+, 3.95+ kids in these programs who didn’t get in to some schools. That can be a drawback of the selective admit HS programs – but they pretty much all landed somewhere great.</p>
<p>For those wondering about the large number of students with science research, it’s because they can take a research class. I found the info in the school profile. You can take the class from 1-4 years and “work with experts in the field.” They have a high rate of students completing in prestigious science fairs, and two annually attend the INTEL fair. They’ve had Siemans semi-finalists and some kid won an international prize for research involving water.</p>
<p>“Research students develop independent study skills, higher order research techniques and working relationships with peers, mentors, industry professionals and college admission officers.”</p>
<p>With that kind of support it’s no wonder so many participate and do well. What a great opportunity.</p>
<p>This type of thing is always fascinating to look at. Interesting to know that ours isn’t the only school where the Ivies pass over numerous candidates with outstanding credentials, only to accept some with amazingly low SAT’s and weighted GPA’s (few or no honors or AP’s.) When I asked some young people who go to these schools whether the low-stats students were able to manage the academics, I was told that they generally do so by clustering in a few majors that are not particularly demanding compared to others at the school.</p>
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<p>In most schools that I am acquainted with, the students have already shared such information with their peers long before it gets posted on Naviance. The smaller the school, the more true that tends to be.</p>
<p>^^So true, epiphany. At least at the high school my kids attended, the cadre of high performing students was pretty small and the kids were a big support to each other. Sharing info about grades, test scores, colleges and strategies was no big deal to them.</p>