<p>The schools that send applicants to these top colleges are clustered and known, and the colleges go back to the same wells each year. </p>
<p>When we lived in DC area and my kids went to school there, the three private schools around us sent 33% of all kids to the Ivys, and if you included MIT, Stanford and top 3 LACs, the number jumped to 40+%. The top public schools were not too far behind with 25%.</p>
<p>Here is a 3 year-old article, but I bet the numbers are still the same and even more of these kids are applying. </p>
<p><a href=“Top high schools find admissions success - The Brown Daily Herald”>Top high schools find admissions success - The Brown Daily Herald;