<p>I'm doing research on what the largest private Ivy League feeder schools are...If you went to a school that sent a large percentage of students to Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale, please post it here or if you know of schools that send large percentages to the ancient eight that are less known, please post them here also. I'd appreciate all of the responses I can get for my research. Again, ONLY private high schools and please if you know some schools that are large Ivy League feeders but less known, I'd appreciate those the most. In other words, posting Andover/Exeter/Horace Mann will not be as helpful because they are obvious choices.</p>
<p>I appreciate the help!</p>
<p>P.S. This can also be a thread discussing Ivy League feeder schools in general...</p>
<p>Raffles Junior College in Singapore has been called the "Gateway to the Ivy League"
Feeder schools for their grad programs are top schools I'm assuming.</p>
<p>There is a service that sells this information. I think it's called prepreview, and if my memory is correct it includes MIT + Stanford. Sometimes the information is posted on the Prep School Admissions board. From year to year, the independent schools that make the bottom half of the list vary. I believe it ends at 10%, and many independent schools get 10% in one year but 8% the next. One year, they might have an exceptional class graduate.</p>
<p>If you can, it would be good to include several years of matriculation in your study to rule out these year-to-year variations.</p>
<p>I went to a prep school in Philadelphia that regularly sends 10-14 kids to Penn (about 10% of the class) per year. Another 25% attend the other ivys not to mention Stanford, NOrthwestern, Duke, etc.</p>
<p>Yeah, they're all good schools, but the colleges they selected - Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, Chicago and JHU - seems a bit random to me. Why only survey the results at 8 schools? If we're going for selective here, why not add Yale, Amherst, Columbia, Brown, Caltech, etc. etc. etc.? Doesn't seem like a thorough assessment to me.</p>
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Why only survey the results at 8 schools? If we're going for selective here, why not add Yale, Amherst, Columbia, Brown, Caltech, etc. etc. etc.? Doesn't seem like a thorough assessment to me.
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"For our survey, we chose eight colleges with an average admissions selectivity of 18% and whose accepted applicants had reading and math SAT scores in the 1350-1450 range, according to the College Board: Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins. Some colleges that would otherwise have met our criteria were excluded from our study because information on their students' high-school alma maters was unavailable."</p>
<p>That WSJ list is quite inaccurate. They probably just polled schools they <em>thought</em> might have the highest percentages. My high school, for example, consistently sends at least 10% of its students to Ivies (and stanford), but we are not on this list. (Also, I can name at least 4 other schools in the area that would qualify too...)</p>
<p>After further reading, I see that they used facebook profiles for research.... I'm glad that the WSJ has such high standards...</p>
<p>Instead of just saying my school sends x percent it would be helpful to post the actual name of the school. Avoid posting places like Exeter/Andover; I'm looking for lesser known schools. I was aware of Winsor but that is a VERY GOOD post. Please only U.S. schools. I chose private schools only because I can get class size information on pretty much all of them whereas with public schools that info may or may not be available, so can't produce accurate results for my study. I am aware of the Worth Magazine and WSJ data as well.</p>