I just thought of a question!

Prep School Admissions
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<p>Hi guys. I just thought of something. Since the work in all these top-notch private schools is so rigorous and barely anyone gets straight A's, what happens when colleges look at your high school records? Hmmm... :confused:</p>

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<p>well, you still have to remember, the colleges look at what high school you went to. if they see you went to like Phillips Exeter, theyre gonna think, "wow.</p>

<p>go ask an alumnus. he’ll know</p>

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<p>You do get somewhat of a wow-factor, but you won’t have a free ticket into HYP by any means. Usually, the top of the class gets into the Ivy league, MIT, Stanford, etc, and the rest usually end up in top 20 schools. I’m bored so I’ll go get my graduation issue and look up the schools.</p>

<p>Dartmouth, Yale, Bryn Mawr, Princeton, U of Michigan, UT, Rensselaer Polytech, Trinity, MacAulay Honors College-CUNY, SUNY, Yale, Harvard, Harvard, U of Michigan, UT, Brown, Claremont McKenna, Holy Cross, Stanford, UPenn, Babson, Syracuse, Princeton, Bowdoin, Oxford, Vassar, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Swarthmore, Georgetown, Tufts, Fairfield U, Middlebury, Harvard, Haverford, Rutgers, Harvey Mudd, Carnegie Mellon, Princeton, Wellesley, Stanford, William and Mary, Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard, Hobart and Smith, Occidental, Trinity, Carnegie Mellon, Williams, Columbia, Brown, Yale, Trinity, UCLA, Georgetown, Skidmore, Brown, Wesleyan, UI, Brown, UChicago, Smith, Brown, Columbia, UVA, UC-Berkeley, U of Michigan, Johns Hopkins, U of Michigan, Rochester, Skidmore, McGill, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Notre Dame, UI.</p>

<p>That was A-F. All in all there was 1 person who got in nowhere and one who is playing in the BCHL. I glanced through the rest of the list and it basically reads like that part. If you get As, A-s, and B+s, you should be good for the top 20, especially if you have a good hook.</p>

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<p>Colleges take into account the difficulty of your school. When you apply to colleges, your guidance counselor sends a profile that will help give them insight about your school.
This thread might interest you:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/831610-effect-hss-academic-reputation-college-acceptance.html?highlight=school+profile[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/831610-effect-hss-academic-reputation-college-acceptance.html?highlight=school+profile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;