<p>@TheGFG There are high schools where 50 or so people are accepted to schools like the UCs (which also happen to be huge), but most definitely not Ivies. I doubt any schools feed more than fifteen students to the Ivies/Stanford/MIT.</p>
<p>@TheGFG & @topaz1116, there are high schools where 50+ kids go to Ivies/equivalents, but they pretty much all have >100 in a graduating class (and generally are much bigger than that).</p>
<p>There are very few if any high schools who graduate over 100 a year who get over 50% of their graduating class in to Ivies/Ivy-equivalents (for the sake of definition, let’s say that they are Stanford, MIT, CalTech, Duke, Chicago, and Northwestern). In fact, they may not exist. Looking at Phillips Exeter, they got 290 in to those schools over 3 years. Throw in Amherst+Williams+Swarthmore, and that’s another 32. Over 3 years, they graduated roughly 750. That’s less than 50%. 131 in to HYPSM over 3 years. An impressive number, but far far from 100%.</p>
<p>There may be some extremely tiny high schools out there where all 20 or so in a graduating class are HYPSM-caliber, but even those are extremely rare. There pretty much exists no high school who graduates over 100 kids a year where 100% of the class is HYPSM-caliber.</p>
<p>The top college prep schools like Andover and Phillips send 30%-40% of their students to the Ivies, including Stanford and MIT. With graduating classes of over 300 that’s in the neighborhood of 100 Ivy Plus admissions.</p>
<p>@PurpleTitan Sorry, I misunderstood that as meaning 50+ kids go to one Ivy. I know plenty of schools have 50+ kids go to Ivies/equivalents; my school generally has around 30 a year go to the Ivies and equivalents you mentioned. Not 50% (not by far; more like 8%) but still quite large–especially for a public school.</p>