<p>I was curious to see how well boarding schools actually did when it went to college matriculation. I went to a lot of schools' sites and found that a lot posted their college matriculation stats of the past five years or the past year. I realize that a lot of the stats are padded because of recruited athletes, legacies, and self selection... But the percentages I found that were accepted to top colleges by these schools was still pretty astounding. I took the meaning of 'top colleges' by the rankings of US News's top 25 National Universities or in the top 20 liberal arts colleges.</p>
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Phillips Exeter Academy 2002-2004
570/704= 59.7%
<a href="http://college.exeter.edu/published/newsletters/College_Matriculation_2002-2004.html%5B/url%5D">http://college.exeter.edu/published/newsletters/College_Matriculation_2002-2004.html</a>
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Phillips Andover Academy 1999-2003
867/1470= 59.0%
<a href="http://www.andover.edu/cco/matrics.htm%5B/url%5D%5B/quote%5D">http://www.andover.edu/cco/matrics.htm
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Milton Academy Class of 2004
104/179=58.1%
<a href="http://www.milton.edu/academics/pages/collegeprofile04.pdf%5B/url%5D%5B/quote%5D">http://www.milton.edu/academics/pages/collegeprofile04.pdf
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Deerfield Academy* 1999-2003
556/704=79.0%
<a href="http://www.deerfield.edu/academics/index.cfm?page_ID=74%5B/url%5D%5B/quote%5D">http://www.deerfield.edu/academics/index.cfm?page_ID=74
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Groton School 1999-2003
266/395=67.3%
<a href="http://www.groton.org/home/content.asp?id=185%5B/url%5D%5B/quote%5D">http://www.groton.org/home/content.asp?id=185
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*School only listed colleges which accepted 10 or more students in the past five years, so only 704 of 800 students are actually listed</p>
<p>I got to a private school myself in Pennsylvania, and I'm a firm believer that high school is what you make of it. But these college statistics are pretty impressive. Makes me wonder how they do it.</p>