<p>good high schools are overrated. of course certain schools send a lot of kids to the ivy league when there's just a higher concentration of smart people</p>
<p>hell, it might be to your advantage for "diversity" purposes if you're a kid with similar stats at a mediocre, middle-of-nowhere HS than a top prep or magnet</p>
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good high schools are overrated... hell, it might be to your advantage for "diversity" purposes if you're a kid with similar stats at a mediocre, middle-of-nowhere HS than a top prep or magnet
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The question is... will those mediocre, middle-of-nowhere HS have the proper environment and resources to prepare you to achieve the same stats?</p>
<p>Deep Springs (2 year college) has pretty good transfer rates into Ivies. Not a private high school, but just to let you know. :P</p>
<p>GoBlue, this is a much debated point...</p>
<p>I think the ultimate way to go about this is to send your kid to a 'top' school system K through 10, and then for 11th and 12th to go to a public school in a terrible school. This way, they will probably still get high SAT scores, be valedictorian, and provide geographical diversity. Of course the student has to be pretty motivated/smart to begin with...</p>
<p>Definately the Buckingham Browne and Nichols School. It's a small private school in Cambridge, MA. Between 2003 and 2007 more BB&N students have graduated to Harvard College than any other university. Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, and Princeton all rank in the top 20 colleges where BB&N students graduates concentrated numbers. Check out the school profile for reference. </p>
<p>Reference: <a href="http://www.bbns.org/documents/cc_profile08.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.bbns.org/documents/cc_profile08.pdf</a> </p>
<p>P.S. BB&N is part of a league of elite and very expensive high schools called the ISL (Independent School League). You can consider this the Ivy League of High Schools. Many of the High Schools you seek (the feeder schools) will be in this league. Some examples are: Windsor, Nobles and Greenough, Roxbuty Latin, Belmont Hill, and Milton Academy. You may have noticed that ISL schools, like the Ivy League schools, are in the northeast. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>The Buckingham Browne and Nichols School. It's a small private day school in Cambridge, MA. Between 2003 and 2007, more BB&N students have graduated to Harvard College than any other university. Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, and Princeton all rank in the top 20 colleges where BB&N graduates concentrated numbers. Check out the school profile for the "Colleges with Three or More BB&N Graduates 2003-2007" section. </p>
<p>Reference: <a href="http://www.bbns.org/documents/cc_profile08.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.bbns.org/documents/cc_profile08.pdf</a> </p>
<p>P.S. BB&N is part of a league of elite and very expensive high schools called the ISL (Independent School League). You can consider this the Ivy League of High Schools. Many of the the feeder schools you seek will be in this league. Some examples are: Windsor, Nobles and Greenough, Roxbuty Latin, Belmont Hill, and Milton Academy. Not surprisingly, many of these schools are in Forbes' "Most Expensive High Schools". You may have also noticed that like the Ivy League, the ISL is also based in the northeast. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>It seems like every other girl I meet that is going to Harvard next year is from The Windsor School. Also, Milton Academy and Styvesant seem to have large representations.</p>
<p>It's spelled "Stuyvesant," boys and girls.</p>
<p>Also, OP, if you want to do your research, there's the search function.</p>
<p>First of all, in general the ISL (with the exception of Groton and a few others) are schools for mediocre students with lots of money in the New England area. Most of them tend to be legacies at the Ivy's, thus the higher matriculation rates. BUT if you want a legitimate prep school with highly motivated and high achieving students think big names:</p>
<p>Andover
Exeter
Deerfield
St. Paul's
etc.</p>
<p>Worth not only your time, but your parents money. If you end up at a place like Belmont Hill, Nobles, or like Middlesex you will have a good time. But the better education is at the bigger, more well known schools.</p>
<p>The College Preparatory School in Oakland, CA sends about 30% of its grads to the Ivy League, Stanford, MIT or Cal Tech. (Data period: Classes of 2003-2007)</p>
<p>The mean SAT Reasoning Test scores (on a scale of 200-800) for the Class of 2007 were 716 critical reading, 715 math and 719 writing.</p>
<p>most top college prep schools. andover, exeter, thomas jefferson in northern va, harvard westlake...</p>
<p>Saint Ann's in Brooklyn, NY for sure</p>
<p>Stuyvesant has a student pop. of over 3000 and I've found that smaller private schools, such as Brearley or Saint Ann's (which both have student pops between 200-300), have done better in terms of sending their grads to Ivy Leagues.
Saint Ann's is interesting because they do not give grades, nor do they have a core curriculum. Teachers give evaluations rather than grades, yet they get all their grads into elite institutions. They've done especially well with Brown. (I'm assuming it's a similar environment.)</p>
<p>Boston Latin,Brox Science?</p>
<p>I don't think it is personally fair IMO.
High Grades are easier to get. These schools want to flaunt their Ivy acceptance rate. They also have the ECs and programs that smaller schools might not have.</p>
<p>Stuy is also public, and there's probably going to be somewhat greater economic diversity there, so it's apples and oranges. It seems like a lot of kids will go from Stuy to CUNY and the like-- it's a sensible decision if you want a good education and can't afford to shell out a lot of money for it.</p>
<p>I don't go here, but Trinity in NYC is DEFINITELY a feeder school. And yea, I was going to say what unalove said. Stuy is public. OP asked for private. While I don't argue that it is probably THE best public high school in the country and that it has a caliber that is pretty much the same as most top private schools... It's still not a private school.</p>
<p>Harvard-Westlake in Los Angeles also has some quite amazing admission statistics.</p>
<p>I am well aware that Stuyvesant is a public school. I was mainly addressing posters from page two.</p>
<p>i didn't actually read through all these replies, so hopefully this wont be repetitive but at least for Dartmouth they offer a certain preference to students who went through Hanover's school district. (Aka if you did middle and/or HS in Hanover and your grades are respectable they are more interested in you then they might have been otherwise.) But Hanover High School does feed a lot of ivies anyway, not just Dartmouth. A lot of secondary private HS (boarding, etc) are usually pretty big feeder schools as well. But that would sort of be sometihng to be avoided, yes? I mean the more kids in your school with your same sort of "resume" all applying to the same colleges gives you worse odds than if you stand out in a crowd whose applying to not ivies, etc...</p>
<p>Another school on WSJ article is Harker in the SF bay area that is relatively new (opened 2000) but seems like already a top universities feeder school. Tuition seems high at $32500/year.</p>
<p>The</a> Harker School: College Enrollment</p>
<p>Total (2006,2007,2008): 460
Harvard 14<br>
Yale 3<br>
Princeton 5<br>
Total HYP: 22 - 4.8%
MIT 15<br>
Stanford 15<br>
Caltech 7<br>
Total HYP + SMC: 59 - 12.8%
Columbia 5<br>
U. Penn 22<br>
Brown 5<br>
Cornell 8<br>
Dartmouth 2<br>
Total IVY + SMC: 101 - 21.9%</p>