<p>The Dalton School is one of Manhattan's top private non-boarding schools. Of the 554 graduates of the classes of 1999-2003, over 99% have matriculated at 4 year colleges. College enrollment figures from the five classes during this period:</p>
<p>YALE (31)
HARVARD (30)
PENN (29)
BROWN (28)
WESLEYAN (21)
WISCONSIN (18)
NORTHWESTERN (17)
OBERLIN (17)
MICHIGAN (17)
CORNELL (16)
AMHERST (15)
BOSTON U (15)
DARTMOUTH (15)
PRINCETON (15)
COLUMBIA (13)
COLGATE (12)
JOHNS HOPKINS (12)
U CHICAGO (12)
WASH U (12)
(other colleges had fewer than 10 matriculants over the 5 year period)</p>
<p>Interestingly, 2 public universities, Michigan and Wisconsin, are very popular with wealthy NYC students. However, less expensive SUNYs are apparantly considered garbage. According to Dalton's website, fewer than 2 Dalton grads (possibly 0) over this 5 year period, attended any of the SUNY colleges.</p>
<p>a lot of rich kids with mediocre stats go to schools like BU or GW... Just because you're rich, and have the connections to get into a top private HS, don't mean you'll have the SATs or GPA for Ivy-caliber colleges.</p>
<p>Clearly, but that's long been what schools like Trinity and CT College have been for. I think the BU phenomena and NYU as well has to do with the new popularity of big city schools.</p>
<p>New York City can be very exciting but the cost of living well and going out is very expensive. If you're super rich, NYU is a fabulous choice. The Olsen twin picked NYU so they can party in NYC. They also design their own BS academic program. I doubt they'd have the patience for Columbia's rigorous core...</p>
<p>It's one school, don't generalize, it's actually a very strong school academically. Maybe that's the reason so many kids get into good schools, hmm?</p>
<p>If you look at my school, Stuyvesant, you'll see a lot of similar schools on the list (except with more tech schools like MIT) and Stuy students are not rich. The only difference you will see is that Stuy students go to more financial safeties like SUNY's and Cooper Union (Olin is now more prestigious than MIT here). So the only conclusion you can draw is the obvious ones, that rich kids don't go to inexpensive safeties because they don't need to worry about money.</p>
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<p>And to a large extent, I suspect that's because those who evaluate their statistics know that the students have had a high school experience with high expectation and rigorous work. You can have confidence that these students can handle college work, even if they're not ranked, say, tops in their class.</p>
<p>I checked out the profile for the Class of 2008 on Duke's website. Interestingly enough, they list the top three states of residence for that class to be Florida, New York, and NC. Each of those three states had 100+ students represented in the class of 1660. Maybe the NY kids that go to Duke are not rich and not from NYC, or not from the elite private schools. :)</p>
<p>Dalton has an extremely selective in terms of its admissions. So the kids there are the top of the top in NYC, which is home to the many of the top of the top in business, finance, law, entertainment, etc. So it's no wonder at all that the kids go on to highly selective schools. You really can't compare this to your average public school at all....</p>
<p>BTW: I do think you have to be pretty rich to attend, with tuition close to $30,000 a year. Yeah, there are some scholarship kids to be sure. But this is definitely not a school for the basic middle-class American family.</p>