<p>Random thoughts –</p>
<p>This must be old because tuitions in 2008 are MUCH higher than those reported here.</p>
<p>Southern California seems to have only 4 schools on the list, at #18, #34, #70, and #79. As a proportion of SoCal’s approx. 20 million population, that number is extremely low in comparison to the proportion at northeastern population areas.</p>
<p>NY/Mass schools take up the first twelve in a block!</p>
<p>I have no doubt whatsoever that these top schools deserve their rankings. If anything, an adcom at HYP would attempt to favor the SoCal applicant simply to round out the cultural representation on campus – I mean how many surfers could there be from Boston and NYC? :). Therefore the SoCal schools are probably even poorer performing than the stats indicate.</p>
<p>remember that Cali preps probably send a lot more to Stanford, this was HYP only</p>
<p>Don’t believe that about MIT, 3-5 kids are accepted by MIT every year at my school out of about 30</p>
<p>he actually said that at an assembly, I was there</p>
<p>lol at prep school kids not getting into MIT…then tell me why I know like 30 kids who got into MIT in the last two years from the same prep school?</p>
<p>and that’s kids I know firsthand, there are more.</p>
<p>that’s only one supremely-biased adcom’s view, not MIT’s in general.</p>
<p>it was the president of the university, not an adcom</p>
<p>my school is on there in the top 15</p>
<p>Ah I’m kind of regretting growing up in the South now.</p>
<p>the nat’l cathedral tuition is WAY wrong…it’s around $28,000</p>
<p>“it was the president of the university, not an adcom”</p>
<p>go Chuck! LOL.</p>
<p>Too bad the people who run the place have no idea what the adcomms are doing.</p>
<p>Well, I am not surprised that krazykool started this thread… :p</p>
<p>My high should be #ONE, since we are the only ONE I know of that does not have a gym, cafeteria, or parking lot.</p>
<p>What exactly does each value mean? Like in
what is the 21.11% statistic? Acceptance rate from that school to any one of HYP? Percent of class that attends HYP? Percent of class accepted to HYP? Also, what is the middle number, “42” and last number, “50”?</p>
<p>Anyway, my school is probably around the tens of thousands range. My cousins go to #11, and HYP take most of their “quota” in my area from #56, 96, and 97, the only three from my state on the list. I am actually surprised that one certain ohio public HS didn’t make it on there, but i dunno.</p>
<p>Stuyvesant and Bronx Science aren’t on the list either - I find it totally suspect.</p>
<p>the numbers are NOT based on the percentage of students who go to HYP. the OP’s thread title is completely misleading.</p>
<p>the rankings are actually based on the percentage of students who go to any school in a select group of top schools (the list includes Harvard and Princeton, though not Yale, along with schools like Swarthmore and Johns Hopkins). I’ll try to find the original piece for the complete list of “top” schools.</p>
<p>AH I’M SORRY. the list that the OP posted IS in fact for HYP. i’m thinking of a different article that came out this year (the rankings in this thread came out in either 2003 or 2004).</p>
<p>I quickly scanned it.. i think i saw 2 public schools, Princeton High School (in you guessed it PRINCETON new jersey)M and Scarsdale High school in westchester county (last time i checked, it was the 5th (?) richest county in the nation)</p>
<p>Nice…</p>
<p>my school is #8904752938450943 plus how many of these threads do u have to make??</p>
<p>and the “Best schools for getting into HYP” aren’t the top newsweek schools, my school sends about 50+ kids to ivies + more to other top 20 schools and they’re like #1 katrillion</p>
<p>and it’s a public school so yea</p>
<p>Sometimes when people have statistics (that are old), it makes them feel better.</p>
<p>Any ranking system has flaws. It’s interesting information, but I wouldn’t use this data for any substance.</p>
<p>I think this is telling information, and its uses go beyond making me feel better about my own school. 50 years ago, it was easier to get into HYP from a top private. It is true that times have changed, but there is a misconception on these boards that HYP admissions are some ultra-fair game where everyone is on an equal playing field. People from top privates DO have an edge in admissions, but not to the extent that they once did. An important point is that colleges look for future successes to grow the school’s name, and these private school kids are often ambitious and well-connected.</p>