<p>i think its judging on where kids get accepted and the percentage of kids going to a given school that is better then saying where they will be going</p>
<p>I don’t think your school is terrible, but it certainly isn’t good either.</p>
<p>My school of about 220 graduating seniors…</p>
<p>Val- Oklahoma Christian University
Sal- Penn (me)
3rd- Wheaton
4th- Ohio State
5th- Ohio State</p>
<p>Everyone else instate public or private, and that’s ohio so not a lot of great options…</p>
<p>my highschool of 130:
1 to harvard
2 to yale
4 to stanford
4 to duke
9 to northwestern
7 to vanderbilt</p>
<p>my brother was outside the top 25% and got into northwestern for academic reasons with no hooks
I win :)</p>
<p>^^Well, yeah its Ohio. Few if any “omg” universities exist there. But my school is in California. Worse, its in Bay Area. I feel as though we’re more obligated to produce more and more scholars.</p>
<p>@qazqay: That’s very impressive. Congrats (hope you’re not exaggerating), although Lynbrook is still better.</p>
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<p>Which means s/he is assumed to be undoubtedly less academically qualified?</p>
<p>^I think the person meant that the playing field is different for URMs, which is to say, “easier.” Its painfully true, but it by no means suggests that the URM didn’t deserve it or is academically unqualified. </p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong. I respect the URM from my school who is going to Duke–she’s come up despite the obstacles before her.
However there are times I envy her for getting into Columbia while I, with better scores and EC achievement, only got wait-listed.</p>
<p>Not at all. In fact the person is very qualified. I was just noting how all the accepted students had “hooks”</p>
<p>Happykid is about to graduate from a “Newsweek Top 100” high school in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Every single year the largest group of graduates heads straight to our local community college. The second largest group goes to UMD-CP, and the third largest group is comprised of students heading to other public 2 and 4-year institutions in Maryland. In some years more than twice as many have opted for the local CC than have chosen UMD-CP and the other state schools! Quite simply, money talks. Commuting from home for two years can cut the cost of attendance down by more than half for those two years.</p>
<p>Interestingly, the school has a page on its website listing the numbers of students who applied and the statistics for those accepted at 4-year institutions, but not at 2-year institutions. While this is useful for parents who’d like a notion of where their kid might be able to get in at the places listed, it is of no use to the parents whose kids might be competitive for the full-ride honors programs at the community college - graduates of which are accepted often with full-rides at HYPSM level institutions when it is time to transfer.</p>
<p>Eh, high school’s success at getting kids into top schools is a finicky sort of thing. My year, we had 12 or so (out of 750) going to upper-tier universities (all who were accepted, pretty much), but this year there’s not a single one I know of even accepted out of state. Things swing back and forth, but big public schools have a lot more to worry about than getting their top 10 kids into a top school: it’s probably more important, overall, to make sure the top 150-200 fulfill the requirements of going to the state universities. And so certain years, we have a small group of motivated students who collaborate and feed off each other, pushing themselves into top places, and other times we don’t (at least not to that size).</p>
<p>The answer is yes and no. For example, at my school about 10 of 400 are going ivy leagues or top schools. 50 where accepted to UCs overall and about 70(overlap with the 50) or more got into Cal State. The REST are going to community colleges. . .</p>
<p>I say yes. we had like 30+ people accepted at northwestern - a 39% admissions rate according to naviance. So yes, they care.</p>
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<p>UF is not a joke. It is a strong educational in-state affordable option for many students. Florida is one of a few states that has such a good state univ. You are fortunate that you have been exposed to many other options and I think Emory is a great school. Not everyone has the exposure to other schools and to CC to realize that there are so many options. I’d suggest you rein it in a bit and just smile and nod when others are just uninformed (not stupid!)</p>