<p>It is the indication of the strength of the class. If 47% can matriculate to top 25 Universities that show the overall standard of the outgoing batch was tremendously strong.</p>
<p>sarahhh: But do they have similar results. That is what I was looking for. If you have the results, can you post it?</p>
<p>POIH, some public magnet schools have more impressive admissions results than almost, if not every (that's debatable) private school. An example is TJ in Fairfax, VA.</p>
<p>i don't doubt that top private/ boarding schools have better placement, which is why i switched to a private school but there are extremely good public school. last year stuy sent about 30 kids to harvard. id say thats pretty good.</p>
<p>plus some private/ boarding kids buy their way in</p>
<p>ummm... class of ~400. The smartest class in the history of my high school (50+ years).</p>
<p>.5% to Northwestern
.5% to UNC-Chapel Hill
.25% to Carleton
.25% to Notre Dame
.25% to UChicago</p>
<p>Public (sub)urban high school. I'm hoping for MIT... I guess having no precedent isn't that bad.</p>
<p>At any top private school, boarding or otherwise, the majority of kids have hooks like being legacies at top colleges, being able to buy their way in, etc. Parent, don't know about Andover but I know several top boarding schools that do much better than the numbers you give. Then there are the top NYC privates which do better than the boarding schools. My guess was public because of the high number of applicants to state schools and USC. At the BS I attended extremely few went to state colleges and I think this is true of top East Coast private schools in general. Most kids are either very wealthy and can easily afford the private colleges, poor and got good aid or recruited athletes.</p>
<p>"It is the indication of the strength of the class. If 47% can matriculate to top 25 Universities that show the overall standard of the outgoing batch was tremendously strong."</p>
<p>Not always POIH. Your school's connections to top-tier colleges have obviously played an important role in this year's college admissions cycle. Kids from your school were given the benefit of the doubt, since colleges can depend on it to come up with quality graduates every time. Quality is an extremely vague term here though, since the strongest students I've ever met came from publics - and were not given the blanket of entitlement in college admissions.</p>
<p>i agree, i actually don't get the point of this thread. is it to brag about what ever school op's daugther goes to?</p>
<p>that is it sarahhh, Imo....and the stats are nonsensical and mean nothing...</p>
<p>and the OP doesn't take $$, legacy, sports, etc into account at all</p>
<p>that 47percent can matricualte also can mean the class has some major $$</p>
<p>My school has just as great, if not better numbers.</p>
<p>And...who cares?</p>
<p>The best thing about my D's school is that the legacy admissions are neglisible. That is why the Ivies admissions are not at par with that of MIT/CIT and Stanford.</p>
<p>It is very rare to get acceptance for 5% of class to CIT.</p>
<p>Please don't talk but post statistics to show that % wise there are better results.</p>
<p>The purpose of the thread was to know about good High schools.</p>
<p>Perhaps POIH, but you've ignored my last post. Kids from competitive high schools such as TJHSST certainly have no legacies at top-tier colleges, but that doesn't mean that colleges don't depend on it a lot for some good students.</p>
<p>Caltech and Stanford are also far more lenient with instate students, and it appears that you're from California (does your daughter go to Harker by any chance?).</p>
<p>I don't see much of a point to this thread either. We've all seen the statistics for places like Andover, Exeter, TJHSST, Stuy, etc. We all know what schools are <em>good</em> with acceptances and matriculation rates. There's no need to justify results either, POIH.</p>
<p>Okay, I will say what POIH wants to hear, then we can let this thread die</p>
<p>Your D goes to the best school on the planet, and only the top 25 schools count and anything else is looserville</p>
<p>There, you feel better?</p>
<p>Those students who go to private schools have a better chance than public schools because the counselor will do all they can to get the students to top schools. The more top schools you apply the more chance you get. Some public schools will limit the number of schools they will write letter of recommendations.</p>
<p>My school actually limits us pretty strictly.</p>
<p>But I agree with you. Just for resources and connections, private schools have a HUGE advantage. An institution may assume that student x is great just because the kids they've gotten in the past from institution y were.</p>
<p>So, OP, we're talking about good high schools, yet I STILL don't know WHAT HS you're talking about which is the ONLY ****ING (yes, I just dropped the F bomb) way this thread could ever be productive!!!!</p>
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<p>You wanted stats. Here's TJ class of 2006.</p>
<p>
College Rank Applied Accept Enroll Yield Accept
University of Virginia 24 280 218 112 51.38% 77.86%
Duke University 8 102 48 22 45.83% 47.06%
Princeton University 1 103 29 21 72.41% 28.16%
MIT 4 52 19 11 57.89% 36.54%
Carnegie Mellon 21 55 41 9 21.95% 74.55%
Harvard College 2 63 12 8 66.67% 19.05%
Washington U, St. Louis 12 32 22 7 31.82% 68.75%
Stanford University 4 61 11 7 63.64% 18.03%
Georgetown University 23 26 16 6 37.50% 61.54%
Cornell University 12 72 24 6 25.00% 33.33%
Northwestern University 14 36 21 5 23.81% 58.33%
Columbia College 9 28 8 5 62.50% 28.57%
Brown University 15 30 6 4 66.67% 20.00%
Yale University 3 64 9 4 44.44% 14.06%
Dartmouth College 9 20 8 3 37.50% 40.00%
U of Notre Dame 20 10 8 2 25.00% 80.00%
University of Chicago 9 17 10 2 20.00% 58.82%
Johns Hopkins U 16 32 12 2 16.67% 37.50%
University of Penn 7 59 7 2 28.57% 11.86%
Caltech 4 18 6 1 16.67% 33.33%
Emory University 18 13 8 0 0.00% 61.54%
Rice University 17 16 8 0 0.00% 50.00%
UC, Berkeley 21 5 2 0 0.00% 40.00%
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<p>That's 209 students matriculating to top 25 schools out of the 373 with data on Naviance. Given that the class size was somewhere between (I think) 410-435, that's pretty close to 50%. Add in some LACs (Wellesley, Swarthmore, Amherst, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Davidson) and you get 217.</p>
<p>IvyHope, you lost me there...
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% of acceptance is % of class size which is around 180. In case of U. Chicago it will be around 10/8 Accepted and 5/4 going.
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Whats 10/8 ? whats 5/4 ? Is that numbers and pct%. Not easy to understand your stats.</p>