<p>Class size: ~480</p>
<p>~60 applicants to HYPM, ~100 to Stanford</p>
<p>Harvard: 3/5 = 60% yield (2 to Stanford)
Yale: 3/5 = 60% yield (2 to Stanford)
Princeton: 2/10 = 20% yield (3 to Harvard, 5 to Stanford)
MIT: 5/13 = 38% yield (1 to Caltech, 1 to Princeton, 2 to Harvard, 4 to Stanford)
Stanford: 14/17 = 82% yield (2 to Harvard, 1 to MIT)</p>
<p>Goody for them. Your point?</p>
<p>Pretty sure our favorite logic/numbers guy will be by soon to explain it all to us.</p>
<p>So? </p>
<p>This doesn’t seem unusual for a top high school in California. The strong preference for Stanford obviously reflects the geographic location, but there are always some individuals who have atypical preferences. If you really, really like Princeton or MIT or wherever, you’ll be willing to spend some time sitting on planes.</p>
<p>If this were an East Coast high school, the picture would probably be reversed, with more students choosing East Coast colleges, although there would probably be a few heading to Stanford or other West Coast schools.</p>
<p>@Pizzagirl: I find it funny that while most posts on this thread involves some form of “my son/daughter got into XXX!”, you question the point of this post.</p>
<p>Just thought I’d share it. The thread title is more than specific enough for you to avoid it if you choose to do so.</p>
<p>That is an impressive admissions rate. A third of class got into to top 5! You don’t happen to have stats to share with the public?</p>
<p>I am not that impressed with those numbers. D1’s private school (125 kids) every year has 3-5 going to those schools. One of the top public schools in that area do just as well every year.</p>
<p>Palo Alto high schools has a lot of Stanford professors, it is not surprising a lot more kids get admitted at Stanford than other high schools.</p>
<p>Igloo - you are reading it right, 1/3 of students didn’t get in.</p>
<p>Well, good for you, ice.</p>
<p>I have no idea if those numbers mean 13 people from the school got into MIT and only 5 are going there or if 5 of the 13 applicants got in, but…</p>
<p>If it’s that 13 people from one high school got into MIT, 10 in Princeton and 17 into Standford, I think that those schools might want to consider just every now and then giving a nod to kids from “regular” schools in flyover states who don’t have the benefit of living in Palo Alt or New York City or Boston and attending college prep schools. </p>
<p>Not that I’m bitter or anything, but I think brilliant students from just plain high schools that have never sent a student to HYPMS have little chance to get their foot in the door if HYPMS offer admission to so many students from the schools that they “know.”</p>
<p>End of rant.</p>
<p>Palo Alto is the key word here.
Similar at Hopkins School in New Haven.
Ithaca HS, even.
Kids from very academic families (professors’ kids) with great qualifications for any school and an edge at the home institution.</p>
<p>I don’t get where 1/3 of the class got into the top five. To me it says there were 50 offers of admission (from 160 applications) and the 50 admits were spread among 27 separate students (oops, 28 because one went to Caltech).</p>
<p>Let me see if I have this right. The number of student who will be attending HYPMS is 3+3+2+5+14 = 27. One other student turned down MIT for CalTech. In all, 28 students got into at least one of HYPMS. This is just under 6% of the student body. Beyond that, all we really know is that there was about a 17% acceptance rate at Stanford. The Harvard acceptance rate is at least (approximately) 5/60 or 8.3%, etc.</p>
<p>Stanford professors´ kids get admitted to Stanford not because they are more academic, it is because they get preference. Some professors even have it in their contract that their kids must get admitted, and I believe tuition is free to professor´s kids at Stanford.</p>
<p>Yes, Palo Alto is a good high school.</p>
<p>I found it interesting actually. I love stats.</p>
<p>Princeton fared the worst in this scenario of HYPMS. After visiting Stanford this spring with S2 I found it to be much like Princeton. So they probably attract/accept similar applicants. Given the location of the HS, Stanford will win the cross admit battle hands down.</p>
<p>Interesting that Princeton and MIT lost the most to Stanford. </p>
<p>It would be interesting to find out how many of the Stanford admits were ONLY admitted to Stanford (of these 5 schools).</p>
<p>Well, we don’t know from the information supplied whether the Stanford professors’ kids are more academic or whether they aren’t. It wouldn’t be surprising if brilliant Stanford professors had some brilliant kids–it’s at least a possibility that they have ability as well as connections/contractual obligations.</p>
<p>Palo Alto area has Gunn and Harker which do reasonably well. 27 out of 480 is barely over 5% and so it is not a major feat. If the admits were all unique adding up to 50 or 60, then it may be a little better.</p>
<p>OP - Assuming you go to this school, where did you get in and where are you going?</p>
<p>Hey! Where is the supposed trend of people turning down HYPS for merit scholarships elsewhere? This little anecdotal evidence supports one of my favorite unsupported assertions: very, very few students turn down HYPS schools for anything other than another HYPS school or MIT.</p>
<p>They all got full financial aid at HYPS M! As someone mentioned, all 14 stanford kids are professors’ kids and are getting a free ride anyway.</p>
<p>I don’t think Palo Alto is typical of too many areas…</p>
<p>I guess it can be argued that Palo Alto is typical of the kind of areas that students who go to HYPMS come from. If that is true…then we can see why these students turn down merit scholarships…they don’t need them…</p>
<p>"from wikipedia</p>
<p>According to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the city was $119,046, and the median income for a family was $153,197.[14] Males had a median income of $91,051 versus $60,202 for females. The per capita income for the city was $56,257. About 3.2% of families and 4.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.0% of those under age 18 and 5.0% of those age 65 or over. The difference between the household income and the family income can be explained by the fact that some areas of Palo Alto are populated by graduate students from Stanford University who do not live on the Stanford campus.</p>
<p>HousingPalo Alto, north of Oregon Expressway, is filled with older homes, including Craftsman and California Colonials, some of which date back to the 1890s but most of which were built in the first four decades of the 20th century. South of Oregon Expressway, the homes, including many Joseph Eichler-designed or Eichler-style houses, were primarily built in the first 20 years after World War II.</p>
<p>While the city contains homes that now cost anywhere from $800,000 to well in excess of $40 million, much of Palo Alto’s housing stock is in the style of California mid-century middle-class suburbia. It has highly rated public schools (see: Paly and Gunn), a high quality of life, and a vibrant downtown area. The median home sale price for all of Palo Alto was more than $1.3 Million in 2006.[15] and $1,363,000 in July 2009[16] Palo Alto ranks in as the 5th most expensive city in the United States, with an average home sales price of $1,677,000 as of 2007.[17] Palo Alto is by some measures the most expensive college town in the United States;[18] as a result, most Stanford University students live on campus."</p>