<p>I get the sense that most who get into Exeter, although they have great grades before getting in, end up being pretty average looking at the grade distribution. I also looked at the college matriculation and most go to pretty average schools. Even if we are accepted I am wondering if it is easier to go to an easier school and get easier grades and get into a better college. </p>
<p>Any advice? Especially from people who are at Exeter.</p>
<p>College admission officers know the difference between an Exeter B and a PS A. They look on the grades as harder worked for. They know how hard it is at these schools and they give credit for it.</p>
<p>Hi Rad, I’ve read a lot of your post and I think ur pretty cool. </p>
<p>Although your comments makes a lot of sense the facts do not support the reality that most graduates go to pretty average schools ck out the matriculation report on exeter.edu.</p>
<p>Why thank you :)</p>
<p>Harvard is average? Excuse me- no. UMass is average. UNH is average, University of Oklahoma is average.</p>
<p>From what I know (from their matriculation list last year) Exeter students DO NOT go to average colleges.</p>
<p>or if you still disagree, care to define average please?</p>
<p>btw, what i said is almost verbatim what someone(a current senior) from PEA said.</p>
<p>If it were a fact that college admin officers know the difference from B’s at BS and A’s at PS than more of the B students from Exeter and Andover should be getting into top colleges right? I am not seeing that based on distribution of grades that exeter has for download when compared to matriculation data. Comments anyone?</p>
<p>SAT or ACT score mean a lot when you apply for college.
Andove and Exeter have a lot of Hype and well known.</p>
<p>If you got accepted in one of these two schools take it, since they already figured out, you can suceed in their school, plus easy to get FA. </p>
<p>If you are waitlisted in Andove ro Exteter, start looking for other schools and get admitted. Forget Andover and Exeter if you are waitlisted, since it is very unlikely the waitlist will open up this year. All the other schools are equally good or better. They may may not have the Hype as these two schools.</p>
<p>yup, check out the matriculation the numbers who go to harvard isn’t very large. Most do go to pretty average schools</p>
<p>I’m not saying they all get in w/ Bs just that colleges know how much harder BS is compared to PS.</p>
<p>note: where they go isn’t necessarily where they got in.</p>
<p>A friend mentioned, not sure if this is true, that going to roxbury or other schools can maximize your chance of getting into harvard more than exeter and andover. Not that I want to attend those schools.</p>
<p>are you stuck on going to harvard?</p>
<p>Clearly you must be stuck on Harvard because I never mention it in this post. Why do you keep bringing it up? </p>
<p>I am trying to get people who currently attend in particular senior and PG to make comments to see what it is like for them.</p>
<p>Harvard was an example for like, top schools.
o.O attiitttuuuudeeeee</p>
<p>Oh ok, you mean you really wanted to ask if I was stuck on a top school. But you brought up Harvard because it is your example of a top school even though I never mentioned it. I get it. No attitude here I think you just perceive it cuz I never mention Harvard but you did</p>
<p>I wouldn’t mind going to harvard but probably not going to happen unless I get develop a hook like sports or something in the coming years. But I would love to get into one of the top 10 or 15 top schools.</p>
<p>worktowin, don’t go to Andover or Exeter (or any other school) because of the college matriculation lists. They are not a means to an end, especially not the elite BS. Enough grinds apply to the top 10-20 colleges. I imagine they get getting sick of it and can sniff 'em out pretty quickly. Doing well at an elite BS will put you in the running at any college, but more than that, it will prepare you well for whatever college you end up attending. There is no magic formula for elite college admissions.</p>
<p>I think it’s very easy to develop a very skewed perception of what constitutes an “average college.” There are several thousand 4 year colleges and universities in the United States. The overwhelming majority of Exeter (or insert highly regarded BS here) graduates go to institutions that it can be reasonably argued are in the top 2% or so of that group. The remainder are almost all going to schools in the top 3 or 4%. Very few are going to anything approximating an “average college.” Even if we ignore the majority of the colleges in the country and look just at major universities and LACs, virtually all are going to schools in the upper 20% or so. Perhaps most important, as Neato pointed out, Exeter grads are very well prepared to be extremely successful at those schools.</p>
<p>I’ll chime in. My sense and hope is that Exeter supplies a couple unique spins that might possibly aggregate against the Ivies. 1. Exeter enshrines and develops free thinking. A tier two school with an amazing cafeteria or proximity to a favorite climbing wall or an opera house or ocean might easily tip the scale away from Cambridge or New Haven. Just sayin. At the same time, said 2nd tier school (whatever that is…Non Ivy: Duke…Uva Vandy), might reasonably be expected to lavish Exonians with an above average level of scholarship and FA. Does it happen this way? No idea. But we will see.</p>
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according to matriculation stats for exeter…
55.6% go to “top schools”
76.4% go to “strong schools”</p>
<p>why the heck do you say they mostly go to pretty average schools?</p>
<p>what the heck is a “strong” school, or an “average” school? it’s all a matter of opinion…</p>
<p>sorry, it’s all well and clearly defined at matriculationstats.org</p>
<p>Hi Jay, I think you got your numbers wrong. You can matriculate or enroll only in one school and the numbers you quote come out to 132 percent. By definition matriculation can’t be larger than 100 percent.</p>
<p>Plus, do the Exeter grads, who are the top students in the country and world, really want to go to “strong schools”. Maybe some in fact do but i think many are disappointed as they don’t go to one of the very best college. I read the CC in the ivy school section and at least it appears that way.</p>