<p>Independent take-a-test-to-get-in school in NY. </p>
<p>lol, our MIT acceptance rate is LOWER than the national average…</p>
<p>From my high school’s class of 2012, we had:</p>
<p>1 Harvard
2 Princeton
1 Yale
1 MIT
1 Johns Hopkins
a few Duke</p>
<p>our class of 2012 was very strong, and this was out of a senior class of about 500</p>
<p>Every year we have 4 or 5 go to UPenn. This year we have 4 going to UPenn, 2 going to West Point and 1 going to Northwestern. 50% either join the military, get a full-time job, or go to a CC. The rest usually go to average in-state schools.</p>
<p>From what I know (the board posted in one of our teacher’s classrooms where he showcases acceptance/rejection letters), two people got into MIT and one of those two also got into Harvard. Imagine having to choose between those two!</p>
<p>Two years ago, another kid I know went to MIT as well. Pretty cool for a small school. (this year’s class is 189 I believe.)</p>
<p>3 UPenn (rather unusual to have 3 go to one Ivy League from my school)
1 Harvard</p>
<p>somewhat prestigious schools which are a step below being Ivy or Ivy+ which some will attend:
1 BU (as far as I know, BU is pretty big at my school)
1 BC (athletic recruit)
2 Bucknell (one of which, an athletic recruit).
1 Brandeis</p>
<p>The vast majority are going to their safety. My hometown University of Massachusetts along with Umass Amherst win out even in the top 20-30 people out of the 700 in my class.</p>
<p>How are you guys doing it!!! This year was actually a relatively good year. Usually only 1 or 2 go to elite schools. Class of 2010, for example only sent one person to an elite school and that was Cornell’s College of Human Ecology. Now that I think of it, we also sent someone to Wellesley that year.</p>
<p>From the class ahead of me, of about 500, one got into Harvard and one got into UChicago. Otherwise, majority goes to state colleges or smaller private colleges. Which is mostly due to.counselors telling us to stay in state.</p>
<p>As far as I know, 0. There must have been one in the past, school is about 100 years old. My class had 20 go to UW Madison, 5 to U of Minnesota, usually about 15 and 5. Also about 5-10 to Marquette. Year before had 1 to Texas. Kids don’t really shoot for anything above state schools here. I only know of a few that even considered applying higher (Northwestern (me, val, waitlisted), Notre Dame (sal, waitlist or rejected), one girl applied to Ivies, idk what happened). Class of 270. GC’s only focus on schools instate or neighboring states.</p>
<p>These schools on here are crazy, not that that’s anything I wasn’t expecting.</p>
<p>My school opened in 2007. Since then, we had a Yale, Dartmouth, Several UVA and Dukes, Elon ( don’t know if that’s elite), University of Notre Dame, Georgetown, UNC, there’s more I don’t know</p>
<p>At my high school? None.</p>
<p>More than half go to community college, a small portion don’t even bother getting a post-secondary education, and the rest go to state universities.</p>
<p>Before I post, I have to add that our IB program is 80 kids in a class of 800. The bottom 600 are completely hopeless in terms of colleges. The next 125 are non IB kids who will probably go to a state college or a community college, as they actually want to do something in their lives, with some even finding great success outside IB. the other 75 are IB, and while not guaranteed admission to flagship colleges in-state, usually go to a reputable school.</p>
<p>2012 has found relatively great success. We had one kid who literally has nothing wrong on his application. All As, 2390 SAT, URM, Band major, started a leadership conference, etc. And he is a great writer. </p>
<p>He got into every HYPSM school, as well as Williams and others.
We also got kids who got accepted to Stanford, MIT, Columbia, Rice, and West Point.</p>
<p>My school is a top public school in north Carolina. This years senior class has around 300. Out of those 300 around 40 are going to chapel hill and around 30 are going to NC state. We have 1 Yale (full ride), 1 UPenn, 1 Cornell, 1 caltech2, west point, 3 northwestern, around 5 Emory, 5 Vanderbilt, 2 duke, a few UVA and the majority of the rest are going to state schools like FSU.</p>
<p>We get 10% to Oxbridge every year and about 2% to Ivies :)</p>
<p>I think a lot of it is to do ith the area you live in, and how much the kids want these things, which is usually down to the parents. My school is a girls selective state school in a very good area, therefore 95% of us go on to university, and most people are pretty ambitious.
And there are only 150 in a class, with grades 6-12</p>
<p>@tennischick97 - Sorry to nitpick, but you can’t get a full ride to an ivy. You can get full tuition paid for through financial aid, but ivys don’t give merit based aid.</p>
<p>I’ll make a list, this is the top 20 of the class of last year:
MIT (3)
Harvard (1)
Yale (2)
Columbia (1)
WashU (1)
Chicago (1)
Stanford (1)
UPenn (1)
Duke (1)
The rest of the top 20 are going to other decent state universities probably with generous scholarships. This is public data I found online, there are probably more going to prestigious schools that aren’t in the top 20 of the class.</p>
<p>MIT (1)
Harvard (1)
Yale (2)
Columbia (2)
Princeton (2)
UPenn (2)
Duke (2)
This year was less strong than most. I go to a good private school that usually sends upwards of 20 kids to Ivies alone</p>
<p>@dfree she was recruited for tennis and going for free</p>
<p>I repeat: Ivys don’t give merit scholarships. Athletic scholarships are a type of merit scholarship. And if you don’t believe me…</p>
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<p>However they can be more likely to give you FA if you’re somebody they really want</p>
<p>That’s debatable. Coaches hand the recruit’s application to the admissions people to help them get in. However, need-blind universities claim that the admissions and financial aid offices are completely separate, so that financial aid is not related to a prospective student’s admission. If this is true, the financial aid people would not know that the student is a recruited athlete. Some people do claim that ivy athletes do get a bit more FA than their non-recruit counterparts though.</p>
<p>This year, class size of about 270, private, catholic school in Boston area…</p>
<p>Harvard: 6
Yale: 1
Brown: 1
Dartmouth: 1
Penn: 1
Cornell: 1
Georgetown: 7
Notre Dame: 4
Middlebury: 1
Amherst: 1
Tufts: 3
Boston College: 40</p>