On average how many students are accepted to each Ivy calibure college from one high school? Specially from top public schools filled with high achievers.
There is no way to know unless you polled every student from that school
I’m asking about people’s personal experiences, like how many from your school or your kid’s school got into top 20. I wonder if going to a high performing high school hurts people’s chances or provides an advantage as adcoms know them.
No, going to high performing high school doesn’t really hurt people’s chances unless you did very terribly in highschool. Usually, it gives an advantage in my opinion. My friends from highschool (whoever applied ED/EA) have some acceptances. 3 are going to Columbia, two to Princeton, one to Harvard, and two to UPenn, and another to NYU Stern (not an ivy but still pretty good school). My logic is that adcoms know that these are schools are more rigorous and prepare students well so they’re more likely to accept these students who do well at these schools because they know they’re top students.
Note: I no longer attend the same school as them, but it’s a top highschool.
My kids attended the #1 ranked public HS in an underrepresented state, with an annual graduating class of 300-350. Typically at least one kid would get into Stanford, Princeton or Harvard, with another one or two going to Duke, Williams, Amherst or UPenn.
I specifically recall one year they sent one each to Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Amherst, and Brown, another year when the sent one to Stanford, one to Harvard, one to UPenn, and one to Duke, and another year when they sent one each to Yale, Caltech, and MIT.
I’ve never heard of dozens of kids getting accepted into elite colleges even from schools where they have 100/1000 kids with perfect GPAs and scores and you would assume that at least while top 1% of class is qualifued for HYPSM.
I’ve never heard of schools where they have 100 kids with perfect GPAs and scores.
Even the best public high schools in states where the public university system is strong (Cal, Michigan, Texas, Virginia at the minimum) will not send a significant portion of their top students to those colleges in the thread title. Many of those best high schools are in suburban areas that aren’t desirable from an admissions standpoint anyway. Parents who have sunk money into realty in these areas aren’t likely to get financial aid but (reasonably) balk at paying full tuition compared to the in state option.
I realize you asked about acceptances not enrollments. If Naviance would make that information public we would have the answer to your query.
Our public HS (it is an very high performing school district) typically does have dozens of students accepted into elite colleges annually.
But in all honesty, I would not waste your time being concerned about things out of your control.
I know it sounds impossible but there are schools where 4.5 out of 5.0 GPA only puts you in top 2%.
You can’t control the grading or ranking system at your high school. You really need to stop worrying about this. It is what it is.
Is this to help you with your consulting business? If kids work hard enough at any schools they should be able to at least try for the top schools. You’re not going to get accepted based on where you went to high school but what you did in high school. I don’t think you’re ever going to have the answers you’re searching for.
I don’t have any consulting business. I don’t know why everyone keep saying that. I help out some students pro bono as I didn’t have much help when I went through this process. My parents didn’t know the process. I do wish to do it on a larger scale at some time in future but not as business or a job and probably not until I’m retired. There is a lot to learn.
If the OP is truly interested in this information, some schools publish their acceptance rates in order to attract applicants. Here are some examples from the Chicago area:
https://www.latinschool.org/uploaded/academics/CCprofile15-16.pdf
http://www.fwparker.org/document.doc?id=3095
https://www.imsa.edu/sites/default/files/upload/cac_profile_2015-final.pdf
http://www.lfanet.org/page.cfm?p=724
https://www.ucls.uchicago.edu/uploaded/publications/HS_Profile_1415_FINAL_online_version_923.pdf
Most of them are private, but IMSA is a public magnet.
Also, some high schools allow guest access to Naviance. If you know the high schools you want to search, you can see if you can enter the schools database as a guest.
My HS did. >25% of the class went to Ivy League schools. Admittedly, it’s an outlier.
Bingo
Thanks for these links. I’ll look at these over the weekend.
Information can keep expectations in control. If you know your school has lots of perfect applicants and Ivy is only going to pick few, you can focus your time and efforts on schools where you have a better chance. If you know you have minimal chance at tier one, you can ED or EA to best tier two. If you know top 10 kids are applying for a certain full ride plus scholarship, you can save your time to write essays for scholarships where you really have a shot.
Well, if you’re wondering why everyone keeps asking if this is for your consulting business, you did make a post two weeks ago saying:
“I’ve interest in starting a college admission consultancy and currently guiding few high school juniors as a tutor and consultant.”
As @Oregon2016 says, states will very strong public universities will send proportionally fewer students to private schools because a low cost alternative is available. I saw kids from my son’s HS turn down most of the Ivy+ (except Harvard, Wharton and Stanford) and the big privates for Michigan. (Mostly full pay parents). For those mostly upper middle class families, it was very difficult to justify the $150K premium for the privates.
@koreanstudent Lol. Thanks. I’m still saying the same thing but never wanted to do it for profit. There are tons of sharks out there to drain coffers of wealthy parents. I just want to help naive immigrant kids find their way through the jungle of college admissions.
Our local HS is a regular, decent, nearby state flagship university, but not magnet school at a rather rural state. The student size each year ranges from 150-200. Almost every year, 1 (rarely 2) student goes to Harvard. On average a total of around 3-5 go to Ivies +SM.