<p>My school sends 10% of the senior class to UPenn, sometimes 15% of class to Ivies</p>
<p>I go to a very large school in PA where only 60% probably go to a 4-year college, and anyone getting into an ivy is a rare event to be marveled at.</p>
<p>Within the top 10%, however, it's very competitive. Outside of that, no one seems to care.</p>
<p>Public... class size 569. Last year's val went to Yale, but we typically only send four or five to Cornell. We don't do Ivies. It really stinks, because basically all my counselor can say to me is "Go to PSU!" Even our really good students are basically expected to go there.</p>
<p>^My school is a lot like smiles'.</p>
<p>24th best school in the country (according to USnews).</p>
<p>never mind.</p>
<p>125th best school in the country. Like 3,000 + kids though and 700+ in my junior class.</p>
<p>A lot of prior grads have gotten into pretty nice colleges, probably 5-7 get into ivies each year. Everyone in IB usually gets into UF. Last year's val went to Duke, the sal went to MIT. </p>
<p>Three of my senior friends have gotten accepted into MIT this year.</p>
<p>Its pretty competitive though in IB, the top 10% is crazy, with a 4.35 cumulative overall GPA i think i'm still about in the 18-20 region, my friend who's #1 in the class has close to, if not, a 5.0, don't ask me how haha.</p>
<p>Its competitive as hell though seriously, at least the class is so huge that i'm still in the top 2%.</p>
<p>Public school, class size of about 600, all vals for the past four years (it could be more, but I know four for sure) have gone to Stanford (including me now :7). We send 6-10 students to the ivies every year, a couple dozen to UCLA and Berkeley each year, and a lot to the other UCs. Mind you, that doesn't represent the majority of our school. IB makes up less than a quarter of our school, so the first 100 students are all neck and neck in terms of GPA. That does include a lot of AP students, but somewhere around 250, the GPA drops off significantly, and let's just say, a bunch of students must be competing for lowest class rank. Less than half of our students apply to go on to a four year school, so our admit rates don't reflect the majority of our students.</p>
<p>Competitive?!?!?!?! HAHAHAH.</p>
<p>I got to a school where the salutatorian has a 3.9 WEIGHTED....YES WEIGHTED GPA. But the thing is....my school is so freakin easy. I have like a 4.67 weighted gpa and I barely do anything. Like, I don't have to even try really...it's a shame. Oh, and the average SAT score is about 750-800 (M + V)...so sad...</p>
<p>BUT...i wish so badly that i went to a competitive school. I like competition.</p>
<p>^^ pretty much like my school. Congrats on Stanford by the way.
What was your IB sched. like?</p>
<p>I go to a public school with about 175 students in my magnet program ....we are located in CA .......these are the statistics from a couple years ago:
(these are college acceptances btw)
UC berkeley 45
UCLA 53
UCSD 49
Brown 4
cal Tech 2 (first school ever to get two in here btw)
Dartmouth 3
Duke 1
Harvard 1
John Hopkins 2
MIT 2
Stanford 9
U of C 5
USC 27
Williams College 1
Yale 1</p>
<p>my class is a bit more competitive than most, but generally, the school itself is pretty laid back. I'm sal, and i'd say i get by doing the least work i can. class sizes of about 150</p>
<p>Thanks samirw :7) It was standard IB schedule, except I was one of two kids to take BC Calculus as a sophomore at my school.</p>
<p>Sophomore year: AP Euro, AP BC Calc, A-G requirements</p>
<p>Junior year: Theory of knowledge (0 period, so 6:30 AM class, blech), AP Stats, AP US History, AP Spanish language (took IB SL test), IB Art & Design SL, IB Physics HL 1 (don't test until senior year), IB English HL 1 (same)</p>
<p>Senior year: IB Physics HL 2, IB English HL 2, IB History of Americas: Latin America, IB Math HL (and yeah, I'm taking PE and Health as a senior because I didn't do it during summer school, how lame are these graduation requirements)</p>
<p>So uncompetitive. Rarely sends any to Ivy's, (mostly CC/CSU and UC for top ppl). I am the first one to shoot for UPenn I believe. My counselor (head counselor) didn't know about Common Application because no one applies private colleges.</p>
<p>Mine is competitive, but it depends how you look at it. They are a private school, but they aren't focused on maintaining statistics when they choose to admit students. Instead, they champion awards we win such as #1 Private School in Florida Math League Competition etc.</p>
<p>Proving this, the school regularly admits students on all ranges of the academic spectrum, from the learning disabled to the extremely gifted. Our average SAT score would probably be about a 1200 M+V. However, you then have to look at the valedictorians; on our grading scale, they ALWAYS finish with a GPA over 5.0. (Don't make me repost the grading scale, but it IS a bit different.) I have a 32 ACT score. My class rank (School does not release it to colleges, even on request. I'm not even supposed to have it, so I'm special. LOL) is a lame top-40%. Remember the average SAT score I mentioned earlier? Mind boggling, isn't it?</p>
<p>Somehow though, despite it being extremely competitive, the atmosphere is very peaceful. We send about 18-21 students to the Ivies each year out of a graduating class of about 300.</p>
<p>Now competitiveness...hmmm, I don't know. Our school's never strived for any thing, we're a self-motivating bunch of earthy-crunch teacher, small-town Americans, New York City kids, and a few Japanese and Koreans that live on mountain in an old village, tap trees for maple syrup, and do some pretty hardcore environmental sciences.</p>
<p>28 students in my graduating class; 27 went to college. You be the judge:</p>
<p>3 at Smith
3 at Boston Art Institute
2 at Skidmore
2 at Colgate
1 at Abilene Christian university
1 at Amherst College ;)
1 at Boston University
1 at Cornell
1 at Hamilton
1 at Lewis & Clark
1 at New College of Florida
1 at Northeastern
1 at Rhode Island School of Design
1 at Reed College
1 at Roger Williams
1 at Sarah Lawrence
1 at SUNY Purchase
1 at University of Vermont
1 at Washington & Jefferson
1 at Waseda University (Japan)
1 at Worchester Polytechnical Institute</p>
<p>I go to one of those new england prep schools (not the boarding ones, mind you)</p>
<p>class of about 110</p>
<p>these are the numbers from the past four classes
comes out to around 20-25% ivies, I believe</p>
<p>Amherst College 7
Brown University 6
University of California at Berkeley 1
Carnegie Mellon University 4
University of Chicago 5
Columbia University 12
Cornell University 11
Dartmouth College 7
Duke University 6
Georgetown University 12
Harvard University 26
Johns Hopkins University 4
MIT 1 (we don't get along with them very well lol)
Northwestern University 5
University of Pennsylvania 12
Princeton University 8
Stanford University 3
Swarthmore College 4
Tufts University 15
Washington University in St. Louis 13
Williams College 6
Yale University 16</p>
<p>The person ranking 4th in our class has a total SAT of 1400 ish.</p>
<p>It's not that she's unintelligent...</p>
<p>It's just that our school does poorly on emphasizing SATs.</p>
<p>My friend didn't know that SAT IIs existed until early this year. </p>
<p>Haha ^_^</p>
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<p>I got to a school where the salutatorian has a 3.9 WEIGHTED....YES WEIGHTED GPA. But the thing is....my school is so freakin easy. I have like a 4.67 weighted gpa and I barely do anything. Like, I don't have to even try really...it's a shame. Oh, and the average SAT score is about 750-800 (M + V)...so sad...</p>
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<p>My school is unbelievably easy too. I NEVER study and just screw around the whole time, unfortunately I didn't cheat hard enough like my classmates so I missed top 10% by 1 person. Its annoying as hell knowing theres idiots ranked above me. I have the highest SAT (CR+M)1220 in my school, which is pretty sad imo</p>
<p>Most of the people here dont even break 1200 with ALL THREE sections combined..</p>
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<p>Lol...that's just like my school. The person who is ranked 5th in the senior class has like a 1300 on the SAT...FOR ALL THREE SECTIONS.</p>
<p>we had the highest AP score average i nthe statte (NJ)
and we probably have ~30 ivies and even more MIT stanford caltech a year</p>
<p>it's a large public school btw.
and on the OLD SATs i think our average combined was like a 1300</p>