Hopkins, Hotchkiss, Choate, Taft

<p>Does anyone know how Hopkins (day school) compares to Choate and Hotchkiss in particular? I know it's hard to compare since Hopkins is a day college prep school and the others are altogether different as BSs...but just curious, in terms of its reputation and college matriculation. Haven't seen it discussed much on CC boards.</p>

<p>Hopkins is an excellent school - top academics - the average SAT score at Hopkins is higher than the boarding schools you listed - they have excellent matriculation stats - it draws students from a radius of about 1 hour away</p>

<p>to add one more statistic - Hopkins is listed on Forbes new “20 best prep school” in the country - I think it is at #18 or 19 - Hotchkiss, Choate, and Taft did not make the list - it is also listed above Deerfield</p>

<p>on their website they state they take 50% of all applicants…so they can’t be that selective…also from posts from 2007, the info there is that Yale profs send their kids to Hopkins because it may be the best day school in New Haven, then they are the ones who get accepted to Yale, so the matriculation stats are inflated. Their rate of getting into Harvard and the other ivies apparently not so good.</p>

<p>Just noticed Hopkins is included in Lvillegrad’s matriculation stats. You can compare for yourself.</p>

<p>[Matriculation</a> Stats](<a href=“http://matriculationstats.org%5DMatriculation”>http://matriculationstats.org)</p>

<p>The Forbes list is a bit lazy - debate raging on another thread.</p>

<p>As for selectivity - the percentage doesn’t always drive real analysis. If threads like these get everyone focused on only HADES or GLADCHEMMs, then those schools will have admissions piles that are artificially inflated by hype, while other schools with strong academics will fly under the radar and attract students who had to do some digging to find them.</p>

<p>Numbers can be fun and/or useful but in the absence of complete data and the facts surrounding them, should be taken with a grain of salt.</p>

<p>What happened to Choate and Hotchkiss on the April 2010 Forbes list? Anyone hazard a guess? matriculation stats or something else?</p>

<p>A few initial thoughts on the Forbes List:

  1. Well you have to move to attend (most of the top are day schools)
  2. Better apply in Kindergarten, because many of them are K-12, with few openings in 9th or above.
  3. For many of them you better be VERY well connected, even in Kindergarten.
  4. Most have “Associate” faculty members or interns from local Education colleges (oh they DO have a masters degree but not experience).
  5. The Student faculty ratios seem to include coaches (amusingly most have masters degrees), this does help their student:teacher ratios.
  6. Scholarships are much more limited and diversity is defined as multiple zip codes.</p>

<p>Great post Winterset and I agree. I think a lot of people are looking for this kind of info on this other thread. Please post it there also. Thanks.</p>

<p>[thread=920576]forbes magazine has new prep school rankings[/thread]</p>