<p>Every year, my high school sends an extremely low percentage of students to elite colleges despite their high GPA and test scores. This year we had 1 student accepted to Stanford and most other smart students accepted to one of the UCs. We rarely have students accepted to schools like Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton, Caltech, or similar colleges. Our class size is 4000+ students. I once talked to a student who said he was disappointed because Stanford only accepted 22 students from his high school that year.</p>
<p>So, the question is...How many students at your school get accepted to an "elite" college every year?</p>
<p>This year: 1 UChicago, 1 Swarthmore, 1 Duke (me), 4 UC Berkeley, 2-3 UCLA.
Last year: 1 Middlebury, 1 Pomona, 1 Northwestern,
We’ve had 2 Stanford kids from our school and a couple Ivies in the past decade. Our class size is around 250 students and it’s public. You can tell it’s not very competitive.</p>
<p>In the past 5 years, 6 people have been accepted to one of the Ivys. Most were from the class of '08 or '09. A couple of people have gotten into NYU in the past, but for the most part, people in my school don’t really apply to top schools.</p>
<p>8 ivys (1 Yale 1 columbia), 1 Williams, 3 Wash U, 1 Duke, 7 BC, 4 Tufts, 1 Vandy, 1 NU, 2 JHU. That was just from a quick scan of my naviance, I know I’m missing some. That’s 28 acceptances (not students enrolled) so there may be overlaps, but that’s balanced out by the fact that I’m not including all “elite” schools, so 30 is probably a good number. If you include schools like UVA, UNC, and Mich (all OOS) you could add another like 16 acceptances. My class size is about 200.</p>
<p>Hmm let’s break it down based on kids who got into top 20 schools…</p>
<p>6 Princeton
3 Penn
4 Cornell
2 Columbia
2 MIT
2 Chicago
2 Duke
2 Northwestern
2 JHU
2 WashU
3 Vandy
1 Notre Dame
2 Emory</p>
<p>We’re sending a lot more kids to top 30 schools and similar-caliber schools. I’d say around 25% of my graduating class of 400 are going to top schools.</p>
<p>None. Around half the school joins the military upon graduation. Most who don’t enlist go to an in-state school.</p>
<p>The only person who got into a top 20 school was a couple years ago - but he was only at our school for his senior year of high school. He got a full ride to Yale. Also I think some kid got into MIT like three decades ago, lol.</p>
<p>Ivy League schools don’t give scholorships.</p>
<p>Private School, 120 in each class:
Last Year: 3 to Vanderbilt, 1 to Rhodes
This Year: 1 to George Washington, 3 to Vanderbilt, 1 to Rhodes, 1 to Davidson</p>
<p>Depends on the class. This year, we have one Yale (also accepted Princeton), one Stanford (SCEA), one Cornell (accepted Caltech & UChicago), one Brown, one Wellesley, and quite a few UCLA and UC Berkeley.</p>
<p>Needless to say, my high school’s class of 2012 is a really strong one.</p>
<p>There have been acceptances to Duke, Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Emory, NYU, UNC… not a lot though. I can think of probably around 10 people going to a top-20 school. No Ivys (the girl who was accepted to Dartmouth isn’t enrolling there).</p>
<p>Usually c. 5 percent go to Ivies, probably 1/4-1/3 to top 20 universities or LACs. This year was a strong year. I’ve already heard of at least 10 percent who have accepted offers at Ivies/MIT/Stanford. It’s a small class, so 5 or 10 strong kids can make a difference in the stats.</p>
<p>We had 11 (out of 150) get into Oxbridge this year, the lowest for around 5 years. We also have 1 going to UCLA and another that I think chose MIT or possibly Princeton- she got a lot of acceptances.</p>
<p>My school had around 15-20 to UC Berkeley, 15-20 UCLA, 1 Harvard, 3 Brown College, 1 U of Penn, 1 Williams College, 4 Stanford, 2 Darthmouth, 1 Duke, Etc…</p>