Phillips Andover, Phillips Exeter, Groton, Hotchkiss, Deerfield, Choate, and Middlesex, among others. There are also some top private day schools that I would consider feeders (such as Harvard-Westlake) and some public schools (such as Bronx Science and Stuvseyant) If some of your local public schools are sending 10+ kids to Harvard ALONE, then either you have a really good school district or live in a very large area. These schools are certainly not average public schools. I attended an average public school; my school district graduated 1500+ seniors last year and only ONE of them went to an Ivy (Columbia), or ANY T20 for that matter.
The reason why I counted T20 Universities and T10 liberal arts colleges rather than just Ivies is because many students actually prefer other colleges in these categories to the Ivies. One person I am friends with at the T10 liberal arts college I attend is from Andover and actually preferred the school to Harvard; this college was her first choice, Harvard was her third choice. Anyway, I don’t think either of our opinions will be changed at this point.
Meaning I think that a ton of students attending other T20s or T10 LACs could very well be attending Ivies. That is just my opinion of course.
Correction to earlier post: TWO students from my school district going to T20s. One also went to Duke.
Columbia is the first T20, Duke is the other T20. One student at each.
I am not trying to change anyone’s opinion. I am trying to set expectations for kids currently thinking about going to BS and hoping it will increase their chances of getting into an ivy.
Your college application is read in a pile with the other kids from your school who applied to that college. So if you’re at Andover competing against the best of Andover…
What BS does, IMO better than the big successful public’s, is prepare you to succeed in college. It’s just that the college might be Haverford instead of Harvard.
Let’s get back to advising the OP rather than the general debate (which has been done ad nauseam) of whether a typical BS applicant gets preference in college admissions.
Have you considered applying to United World Colleges (UWC)? It is a two-year IB program and many of the students attend for what would be senior year + one PG year. Colleges LOVE UWC kids. It is a network of boarding schools on all continents and each participating country picks students to represent it. Costs are heavily subsidized and you get to attend school with the best and brightest from around the world.