Hottest Colleges Destinations in 2008 for Top Prep School Alumni

College Search & Selection
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<p>I collected matriculation tallies from the class of 2008 at all the largest % Harvard, Princeton, and Yale feeders (according to the Worth Magazine study awhile back) for the schools that provided that information on their websites. The list of secondary schools included the following: Roxbury Latin, Collegiate, Milton Academy, Andover, Saint Ann’s School, Deerfield Academy, Belmont Hill School, Baldwin School, Gilman School, Hopkins School, Harvard-Westlake School, Lawrenceville School, Holton-Arms School, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Delbarton School, Choate Rosemary Hall, and Tower Hill School. Here were the most popular colleges:</p>

<p>The Top 20</p>

<li> Yale University (79)</li>
<li> Harvard University (71)</li>
<li> Georgetown University (68)</li>
<li> University of Pennsylvania (66)</li>
<li> Brown University (65)</li>
<li> Princeton University (58)</li>
<li> Cornell University (53)</li>
<li> Stanford University (51)</li>
<li> Columbia University (45)</li>
<li>Dartmouth College (44)</li>
<li>University of Southern California (43)</li>
<li>George Washington University (43)</li>
<li>New York University (41)</li>
<li>Vanderbilt University (40)</li>
<li>Trinity College (36)</li>
<li>Wesleyan University (35)</li>
<li>Middlebury College (34)</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University (34)</li>
<li>Duke University (33)</li>
<li>Tufts University (31)</li>
</ol>

<p>Thoughts?</p>

<p>Stanford is a far more popular destination it seems with prep schools than it used to be (it seems to be shaking its reputation for being a haven for California public school graduates). Duke is not as popular as I would have expected. Harvard seems to be taking fewer and fewer students from top prep schools because usually it would be number one on this list, and Yale has, on the other hand, been consistent in the percentage of its class that comes from prep schools or perhaps taken more students than usual. I’m not basing this only on this data but it seems to be a trend I have noticed. Penn also, which would usually be number one or two seems to be taking fewer and fewer top prep school alumni and appears to be taking a higher percentage of its class from mediocre private schools or public schools. Dartmouth seems to be taking more kids from prep schools than in the past as well as does Princeton (to a lesser extent). Just my observations.</p>

<p>I have posted similar data in the past and the most consistent thing I have found has been that the top 5 most popular colleges for top prep school graduates seems to almost ALWAYS be the same five schools: Brown, Harvard, U Pennsylvania, Georgetown, and Yale. This tends to never waiver which I find interesting.</p>

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<p>There are other prestigious private high schools which you left off the list. Nearly all the schools listed are east of the Mississippi. I suggest you add Punahoe and Iolani in Hawaii (I read Iolani has a record number of NMS who attend there), the Harken School, Westminster (Atlanta) and some of the prestigious private high schools in Texas. Your choices, in my opinion, should be more nationally based. Just because a rigorous private high school does not send many students to HYP, does not necessarily indicate it is inferior.</p>

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<p>In the last 2 year, with the new admission director, Stanford took less students from California.</p>

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<p>"the most popular colleges" and "the ones they ended up going to" are not the same thing. I'd imagine Princeton would be "more popular" than Georgetown, but since it's smaller and harder to get into, less would actually end up there.</p>

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<p>Would you please list where all of the high schools are located and their number of graduates annually?</p>