<p>Phillips Academy in Andover, MASS is one of America's top boarding schools. In 2004, the high school graduated 306 seniors. The 7 colleges with the most Phillips Academy matriculants in 2004:</p>
<p>HARVARD: 17</p>
<p>BROWN: 15</p>
<p>YALE: 10</p>
<p>COLUMBIA: 10</p>
<p>JOHNS HOPKINS: 9</p>
<p>CORNELL: 9</p>
<p>NYU: 9</p>
<p>(source: phillips academy website)</p>
<p>I think among private schools, only St. Paul's and Milton have a higher rate into ivies plus Stanford and MIT. There are some public magnets that have amazing stats, too. And Exeter is waaaaayyyyyy down there. J/k.</p>
<p>You have to consider the size of the most recent HS graduating classes (2004) to fairly compare schools' placement success rates. Phillips Academy only graduated 306 seniors in 2004.</p>
<p>Yes, but the rankings take size into account. St. Paul's is number 1, sending 40% to an ivy, MIT or Stanford. Milton is, I believe, 37% and Andover 35%.</p>
<p>Any ranking that judges schools by their matriculation into ten specific colleges is problematic. Getting into Caltech, is a lot more difficult than getting into Cornell, for example. Also, what about the students admitted to Cornell (or elsewhere), but choose to matriculate at Amherst, Williams, Duke, etc.? Did you know that fewer than half of the students admitted to Dartmouth in 2004, actually enrolled at Dartmouth?</p>
<p>The prep school rankings are based on matriculation. As for Caltech and MIT, they get surprisingly few prep school kids. It's because they are more in the know about school environs and don't choose the extreme nose to the grindstone schools. Also unpopular: Chicago and Swat.</p>
<p>There are four people who live in my dorm and are in the class of '04 from Andover.....</p>
<p>what college do you attend kk19131?</p>
<p>anyone have the 2004 matriculation list for Groton?</p>
<p>this is what i put together for prep school matriculation. Deerfield and Groton both beat out Andover and Milton in sending kids to HYPSM. They also send a higher percentage of students to USNews top 25 schools and top 20 liberal arts colleges.</p>
<p>BarryD: I attend Northwestern University</p>
<p>Acerockolla - Your link made me day.</p>
<p>I always wondered how Trinity College, Ct. always manages to have such a high number of kids apply to it when it seems to advertise and recruit less than other top LACS (...in fact, Trinity rarely comes up in any sort of discussion of top 25 LAC's even on CC)</p>
<p>But after reviewing the sites on the link you provided, given its size relative to other schools, Trinity has a very high percentage of private school students matriculating. I also know Trinity has a high percentage of siblings who attend. </p>
<p>Hence, I guess because it obviously is a traditional feeder school, there's no need for Trinity to blow it's horn to attract applicants. I'm not sure if that is a good or bad thing, mind you -- in fact, such complacency can potentially cost Trinity the exceptional public HS candidate who undoubtably would enhance the already exemplary student body.</p>
<p>But I do feel better now because its a fine school and I've always felt a bit bad because of the infrequentcy with which its name comes up by CCers.</p>
<p>How do you like NorthWestern?</p>
<p>Hey,
Does Trinity have the largest student body? I heard Columbia <a href=“http://www.cic-totalcare.com%5B/url%5D”>www.cic-totalcare.com</a> has the most kids in north america. In terms of top ten or 15 boarding schools, I’ve no idea and would like to see more talk on that.</p>
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<p>Or it’s because the very wealthy do not design bridges or figure out how to make the financial system work. They have people for that. :)</p>