<p>like some people say
hotchkiss-yale
andover- harvard
or lawrenceville- princeton
is it true?
what are otheres?</p>
<p>Judging by the college admissions statistics (which I’ve seen online, idk exactly where but I’m sure you could find them), a more accurate correlation would be exeter->harvard, andover->yale. Their school colors even line up and everything.</p>
<p>yea ive heard Exeter –> Harvard and Andover –> Yale</p>
<p>I don’t think so. According to Wikipedia, Andover was once a Yale feeder school and Exeter was a Harvard feeder school, but they are no longer so. But I would say that L’ville may have a relationship with Princeton because of its proximity.</p>
<p>All the relatively old boarding schools typically had a very strong feeder relationship to one of the more prominent Ivies, but now the relationships aren’t as strong anymore. The thing is Ivies will take a specific number of students from one of the schools, as they cannot give all the spaces to every student from said schools.</p>
<p>Just some words of advice…</p>
<p>The feeder relationship is almost all but gone, today. Of course, boarding schools do have a relationship with the Ivy League (chances are your college counselor is at least acquainted with the admissions officer at the school to which you wish to apply). The feeder relationship, however, is more reflective of the old, traditional, boarding school idea.</p>
<p>Feeder: NMH basketball = Ivies</p>
<p>Or, recruited atheletes -> Ivies</p>
<p>I know for sure that many, many Lawrenceville graduates are accepted to Princeton every year and I agree that it is because of its proximity.
As for Andover and Exeter, I am not sure. However, Andover is pretty far from Yale compared to Lawrenceville and Princeton.</p>
<p>I’m hardly an expert but I think theres a lot more to it than just proximity, which I’m sure can be a contributing factor.</p>
<p>No, there is no connection. Ivy’s are interested in a diverse group from high schools all over the world. If you see that Exeter has 15 kids or so going to Harvard, just think of how many applied and were rejected. I don’t know exactly how many, but wouldn’t you guess that at least 100 or more kids from these elite schools apply to any one Ivy? and if 10-15 are going, that is good odds, but certainly not a connection of any kind.</p>
<p>You can likely google the article in the Wall Street Journal (I think it was) that gave statistics for private and public high schools and their acceptance rate to the top private (not public) colleges.</p>
<p>Well over 70+% of the accepted at the top colleges/universities came from public high schools. The colleges, uniformly, gave the same rationale–that kids from public schools could multi-task, had been in the “real” world, knew how to traverse the system, weren’t as likely to be “tea cups,” (e.g. fragile), and still performed! as well or better than their counterparts at independent schools.</p>
<p>My daughter, a senior at a top-notch private school, almost shot me when she found this out. She’d wanted to go, desperately, to the local, eclectic, huge, oft-times beleaguered, home to geniuses and future convicts, public school down the road instead of driving over a bridge to high school. Really, she wanted to roll out of bed, five minutes before the first bell.</p>
<p>“She’d wanted to go, desperately, to the local, eclectic, huge, oft-times beleagured, home to geniuses and future convicts down the road…” I love this sentence. Thank you.</p>
<p>Decades ago, certain boarding schools were indeed “feeder” schools for certain colleges. Middlesex –> Harvard, for example.</p>
<p>I use the term feeder in a specific way: the school provided a halo effect, beyond individual merit.</p>
<p>Those days are gone.</p>
<p>Side comment: Lawrenceville is within close proximity to Princeton. My guess is that the Lawrenceville student body is comprised of a number of Princeton faculty kids, who are more likely to be admitted to Princeton. Similar dynamic for Boston area boarding schools and Harvard/MIT, and so on.</p>
<p>I know for a fact that HYP admissions directors have conference calls with the college advising staffs at the big New England boarding schools to go over their candidates- heard it at parents’ weekend last year straight from the mouth of one of the HYP directors of admission. However, unless you are a recruited athlete, I believe that the academic bar is set much higher at the big prep schools.</p>
<p>The purpose of that kind of con call is to better understand nuances between candidates from the same school. When a single boarding school has 40 applicants to, say, Princeton and ultimately 10 will be offered admission, that kind of call can be helpful to decide which 30 to waitlist or deny.</p>
<p>A college could have a “saturation point” for admitted students from a single school, and in that sense certain boarding schools perceived by some as “feeders” may actually be constrictors.</p>
<p>“special relationships” or not, it is probably safe to say there is no special relationship one can count on or expect to take big advantage of. Let’s forget about it.</p>
<p>I have two friends whose sons attend St. John’s Prep. They say it is a “feeder” school for BC and sited a figure of 30 admitted from last year’s class alone.</p>
<p>That’s nice, but I think OP and many others want to know prep schools’ “special relationships” with HYP or at least an ivy.</p>
<p>^The point, I think (correct me if I’m wrong), was that a feeder relationship does remain, to this day.</p>