<p>The top destinations (4 or more matriculations):</p>
<p>Harvard - 18
Yale - 13
Brown - 13
Georgetown - 11
Penn - 10
MIT - 9
Cornell - 8
Stanford - 7
Columbia - 7
Vanderbilt - 7
NYU - 7
Princeton - 6
Dartmouth - 5
Wesleyan - 5
Boston Univ - 5
Bowdoin - 5
Middlebury - 5
Chicago - 4
Berkeley - 4</p>
<p>There seems to be declining interest in the top LACs:</p>
<p>ZERO to Amherst for 2 yrs in a row, now;</p>
<p>ZERO to Williams, Pomona and Swarthmore this year.</p>
<p>This is a notable change from 5-10 yrs ago.</p>
<p>Also zero to the university that I'll be attending (Duke), and to a particular elite tech school (Caltech). Perhaps these institutions don't fit elite prep school kids' delicate sensibilities.... Anyway, I have a question: why should we care? We already know that admission to Harvard is the most difficult hurdle in the college process. We already know that Harvard trumps all other universities in cross-admit statistics.</p>
<p>So what does this add? It just tells us that Harvard is the top destination for students educated at a boarding school that costs tens of thousands of dollars in tuition (and doesn't offer financial aid nearly as generous as Harvard's). Frankly, I'd rather attend a university whose student body consists of fewer students from elite boarding schools and more from ordinary public schools. But that's just me...</p>
<p>I met several kids from Andover who will be attending Harvard. Its good to see the ivys are well-represented among Andover grads. Do you know if the top LACs are accepting less Andover grads, or are these grads simply choosing not to attends these LACs?</p>
<p>12 to Princeton (recent strong recruiting effort paying off) and 3 to Yale.</p>
<p>Stuy's numbers jumped back up again this year! Seems like my admissions officer liked Stuy a lot this year compared to last year's dip. </p>
<p>NB: No, I did not attend Stuy.</p>
<p>Here's my sense about Andover and the top LACs - particularly Amherst. They got tired of being HYP backups - one year 33 Andover applicants were admitted to Amherst and only 3 went. As a result Andover applicants started to get "yield protection" treatment (ie, rejections or waitlisting in "Tufts Syndrome" fashion.) Thereafter, fewer and fewer started applying. </p>
<p>Amherst and Williams were traditionally "second choice" schools for Ivy applicants. As they incfreasingly emphasized Early Decision to increase yield, the number of apps from Andover (and I think Exeter too) declined.</p>
<p>Actually, Byerly.... there were quite a few admits from Exter to the Williams class of 2010.</p>
<p>I got the list of williams 2010 accepted students, and there were ZERO admits from Andover.</p>
<p>My question for you: How many applied??</p>
<p>Middlebury and Bowdoin have a quite a large number entering students from Andover, and these two schools are further down the academic food chain than AWS.</p>
<p>For reasons unclear to me, Andover app interest in AWS has declined steeply in recent years. The fashion among those with the grades who can't/don't want to go the the Ivies seems to favor bigger schools in less remote locations.</p>
<p>HAHAHA..</p>
<p>I noticed that you forgot to include Trinity College (with 9 matriculating students) in your matriculation list.</p>
<p>You offer no evidence that application numbers are declining. This link does not show how many students applied, just how many matriculated.</p>
<p>Also, the LACS lower down the food chain have more matriculating students than some of the Ivies.</p>
<p>Whatever, "Mikey" .... find your own "evidence" of whatever. I provided you the link to the matriculation data - about as complete and up to date a list as you will find for any school in America. If you want to think I am lying about app numbers, second-choice schools, perceived safeties, etc., well, you are free to do so.</p>
<p>Kitty can scratch!!!!!! Raaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Why so defensive?</p>
<p>Can't you provide us with application numbers? You obviously have access to them. I'm too busy with my prestigious job to go data "hunting."</p>
<p>You're too snotty.</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHAH..</p>
<p>Well if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black!!!</p>
<p>P.S. From the admissions office at Williams College.
Phillips Exeter had more admitted students than any other school (7)</p>
<p>This is interesting, since Andover was traditionally primarily a feeder school for Yale. It was Exeter that sent more students to Harvard.</p>
<p>Which reminds me, do you have data for Exeter?</p>
<p>interesting numbers, but the rankings by matriculation don't correlate all that strongly with quality or even prestige.</p>
<p>Looks like a pretty good correlation to me, particularly when you are talking about an entire class and not just the top 5%.</p>
<p>i think one has to know which students, exactly. georgetown, for example, attracted 11 phillipians this year to MS&P's 9, 7, and 6. yet there's a good chance that all 11 hoyas-to-be boast lower incoming credentials than the 22 classmates going to MSP.</p>
<p>You're a pretty shrewd guy, scottie!</p>
<p>Georgetown <em>is</em> however a very hot school in a desirable location. It attracts more Deerfield grads, for example, than 5 of the 8 Ivies.</p>
<p>Similarly, more Exeter grads choose Georgetown than either MIT, Stanford or Princeton.</p>
<p>The big school setting scene also attracts more matriculants from Milton Academy to BC, NYU and Boston University (not to mention Columbia!) than to MIT, Stanford or Princeton.</p>
<p>at Choate, Georgetown outdraws 6 of the 8 Ivies.</p>