<p>POIH: "It is 30% of the outgoing Senior Class got accepted to USC. I'm not sure how many applied. It might mean 100% of the applied students got in."</p>
<p>..so you dont' even know how many applied. </p>
<p>and i think you've dissed just about every respectable public school mentioned. if you think andover is so great why not send your daughter there or maybe you should wait until your daugther actually gets into a college to brag about her high school</p>
<p>The only purpose I see in the thread is if the OP is looking to switch high schools.</p>
<p>yet she continues to imply her child's private school is the best in the universe.</p>
<p>Maybe we should just pretend she doesn't exist...</p>
<p>And all POIH wants is stats, which POIH has no clue how to interpret, present or understand</p>
<p>In terms of helping your child "increase her chances," I really don't think analyzing statistics with that much fervor is worthwhile. It's always helpful to know the track record of acceptances into top tier schools (ex. Harvard always takes at least 1 person from School X), but crunching too many numbers might not be a good usage of time. You mentioned that your D still has a couple years to go before application time. The time might be better spent finding interesting internships, summer camps, volunteering experiences, scholarship contests, etc. that would boost her application and distinguish her.</p>
<p>My H's high school. Very strong numbers. Usually ~ 20+% go to Ivies, and 50%+ matriculate to top 25 schools. Don't have this years matriculation results yet, but it's usually very impressive.</p>
<p>I'm a public school gal myself, as are my kids. Of course schools like CP do well - admissions are restricted to a high narrow range of IQ's/Aptitudes. Nice for them, I guess...</p>
<p>IvyHope, what is the overlap between those that got into Harvard versus the ones that got into Stanford and Princeton. Is it pretty much the same kids? I know a statistic like this would be a bit skewed at our school, as one kid got into every Ivy and Stanford. (Okay, maybe he didn't need to apply to that many, but 20/20 hindsight.) In a small class, if you had 8 kids like that it could really mess up the results.</p>
<p>UCDAlum82: This what I think the overlap is</p>
<p>Harvard/Stanford: Everyone who got in Harvard and applied to Stanford did get into Stanford.</p>
<p>Yale/Stanford: Everyone who got into Yale seems like got into Stanford also.</p>
<p>MIT/CIT: Everyone who got into MIT did get into CIT if they applied.</p>
<p>Columbia/U.Penn: Most of the students who applied ED did get into along with those who got in RD also gotinto Harvard/Stanford and seems to have choose those over Columbia/U.Penn.</p>
<p>This seems to be the final tally for HYPMSC in terms of Acceptance/Matriculated
S: 14/8
M: 8/6
H: 7/5
C: 7/2
P: 6/1
Y: 5/1
Total Matriculated : 23 (14% of class)</p>
<p>What really jumps out at me from those stats is a third of the students feel USC is a good fit for them. Is, by chance, the college guidence counselor a former admissions officer from USC? Or is there some other connection between your high school and USC? USC is a wonderful school, but it's not for everyone.</p>
<p>THings seems to be changing at the school with respect to what schools students are applying, so there might be some influence from the counsling department.</p>
<p>This is the first yeat it seems that so many did apply from the school to USC.</p>
<p>chronicidal : Can you send me the link to TJHSS 2007 college matriculation? Where did you get this information from?</p>
<p>I've actually talked to TJHSS multiple times over the last few years and have asked them to send this information. But I've never got this information officially.</p>
<p>Can you post the link that shows this information?</p>
<p>The closest I've seen to a official publication of these stats is the senior edition of the newspaper that shows all the destinations. Otherwise, all that stats I have were hard copy stuff from the guidance office or through Naviance.</p>
<p>chronicidal,
It seems that the posted table is quite revealing as to the TJHSST destinations, and the strength of the curriculum and its students. However, my understanding is that acceptance is not automatic (via district of residence), but that there's an admissions process, & that one is selected in 8th grade for the 4 yrs, no?</p>
<p>what surprises me is that POIH has so much private information about all the students at Ds school...</p>
<p>How did POIH get that info? Do all the kids post where they applied and where they got in, rejected from etc on some wall</p>
<p>It amazes me and is kind of creepy</p>
<p>city - I know some private schools make their students' acceptances public. They detach names and identifying info. A private high school's reputation may be dependent on where their kids matriculate, so they view it as good business practice to publicize the info.</p>
<p>epiphany, yes. One can also get admitted as a 'froshmore' - a new sophomores. Students that recently moved into the area can also be admitted as juniors. A handful of students drop out every year.</p>
<p>my high school's '07 class is pretty good:
harvard-3
princeton-1
columbia-2
dartmouth-3
brown-1
cornell-a lot
JHU-1 or 2
Uchicago-1
northwestern-2 or 3
NYU stern- at least 15 (no kidding)</p>
<p>well they were deemed the smartest class ever at our school.</p>
<p>My private school NEVER publishes our acceptances. A matriculation list (with numbers, not names) is circulated among the faculty, though. But only college counselors have the type of run down that POIH seems to have procured for her school.</p>
<p>Re Post 59:</p>
<p>A school Naviance subscription will provide similar info as POIH posted. It would take some tracking/record-keeping year by year, to know which are this year's data points, and which are last & the year before. (Our school posts a minimum, usually, of 2 admission yrs. at a time; it only posts one year if it's a first application from the h.s.)</p>