<p>Sorry 'bout all that, then. My inner statistician has been wrong twice tonight (luckily didn’t post the other one) and is off in a corner feeling inadequate. Bah…oh well, my bad.</p>
<p>Wait, actually, I have some data to contribute!
Here are the presidential scholar nominees from my high school (which is a fantastic! public magnet, and has an average SAT score that is out of this world. It may be over 2200) and their college destinations. Presidential scholars are hand-picked from the best students in the country, and so are a thoroughly biased sample. The nominees are a much better picture, but nobody publishes where they’re going to college. There are a lot of nominees from my HS, so here they are, and hopefully they’re a good sample of all nominees. The amount I know about some of them is limited.
Our HS traditionally does best at Princeton…Harvard was a slaughter this year, waitlisting or rejecting all of these people who applied except me ><…I feel incredibly lucky and humbled by my acceptance. (Harvard also took two guys with lower SATs) Many did just apply to Yale and Princeton of HYP, though. Some of the rejections here were huge scandals (Stanford SCEA! O.o) I’ve noted who made semifinalist, but not all of these people applied for the program, as it was a massive time commitment on the essays.</p>
<p>Boys:
Accepted ED to Dartmouth
Rejected by the upper Ivies, WL’d at Chicago, likely letter from and attending NYU Tisch
WL’d at Harvard, attending either Yale or MIT.
Attending Stanford
Rejected from a bunch of Ivies, accepted at NYU, attending State Flagship U (semifinalist)
Attending Cornell
Accepted to MIT and Caltech EA, didn’t apply elsewhere. Attending MIT
Rejected from HYPSM etc., going to Cornell (semifinalist)
Rejected from MIT, Yale, WL’d at Caltech, attending State Flagship U
Attending Stanford
Attending Princeton</p>
<p>Girls:
Going to State Flagship U
Rejected from MIT and Princeton, accepted at Johns Hopkins, attending State Flagship U
Accepted at Pomona ED
Rejected at Stanford SCEA, WL’d at Harvard, accepted at Yale, MIT, attending Jerome Fischer at Wharton. (state scholar)
WL’d at Harvard, accepted at MIT, attending Yale, likely letters from Columbia, Dartmouth (semifinalist)
Rejected from Yale and Princeton, WL’d at MIT, attending Cornell
Asian name of indeterminate gender that might be my female acquaintance who’s going to Penn
Attending WUSTL
Attending Second Best State U, possibly ED
Rejected at the upper Ivies, WL’d at Brown, accepted at Johns Hopkins and attending Second Best State U
Rejected from most if not all Ivies to which she applied, attending Duke
Attending Amherst
Me, attending Harvard (semifinalist)
Rejected from Stanford SCEA, all Ivies to which she applied, attending Wellesley
Accepted at Cornell, Duke, attending Princeton (semifinalist)
Attending State Flagship U</p>