<p>Does anyone have the latest rankings?</p>
<p>Rank no. 1 - SPS, PEA, PA
Rank no. 4 - Groton, Milton, Noble & Greenough</p>
<p>thanks for posting this, </p>
<p>do you have the full ranking or perhaps to the Top 10-15?</p>
<p>I took that from this thread <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-parents/737459-years-college-matriculation-6.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-parents/737459-years-college-matriculation-6.html</a></p>
<p>You can PM a member by the name of “JC65”</p>
<p>i guess we can deduce from that thread that:</p>
<p>Rank no. 1 - SPS, PEA, PA
Rank no. 4 - Groton, Milton, Noble & Greenough
Rank no. 7 - Lawrenceville, Deerfield
Rank no. 9-10 - ???
…</p>
<p>Rank no. 1 - SPS, PEA, PA
Rank no. 4 - Groton, Milton, Noble & Greenough
Rank no. 7 - Deerfield, Lawrenceville
Rank no. 9 - Belmont hill, Middlesex, St. Albans
Rank no. 12 - ??</p>
<p>An interesting observation: JC65, whose child is attending Exeter, said “PEA, PA, SPS” are #1, while mpicz who is going to SPS, listed “SPS, PEA, PA” as #1, and of course hyeonhoy rightfully adjusted the order of Deerfield and Lawrenceville from a prior post. See the subtle difference here? Talking about human nature study 
Note: This post is meant to be for fun not critical, so don’t start it.</p>
<p>Of course! And, not to be too snarky, but where is our parent from St. Marks, whose Korean newspaper always puts it in the top 10! I expect them to join in any moment!</p>
<p>No Drama here !:)</p>
<p>Where is Hotchkiss?</p>
<p>Does this ranking mean that the HADES will no longer be of any use? Or does that acronym just indicate five elite schools?</p>
<ol>
<li> Phillips Exeter Academy Co-Ed 9-12, PG $ 1,000 M </li>
<li> Phillips Academy Andover Co-Ed 9-12, PG $ 770 M </li>
<li> St. Paul’s School Co-Ed 9-12 $ 442 M </li>
<li> The Hotchkiss School Co-Ed 9-12, PG $ 382 M </li>
<li> Deerfield Academy Co-Ed 9-12, PG $ 375 M </li>
<li> Girard College Co-Ed 1-12 $ 355 M </li>
<li> Peddie School Co-Ed 9-12, PG $ 300 M </li>
<li> Woodberry Forest School All-Boys 9-12 $ 250 M </li>
<li> Groton School Co-Ed 8-12 $ 224 M </li>
<li>Choate Rosemary Hall </li>
</ol>
<p>I got this from boarding school review and this is by the category of largest endowment.</p>
<p>That website is ridiculously outdated >.></p>
<p>Your right but I just wanted to add something in (lol)
and it is the only website that ranks boarding schools :)</p>
<p>12 Choate, Hockaday, Hotchkiss, Thacher</p>
<p>Wait for next year’s ranking - all 25 will be tied as #1. LOL It’s ridiculous because this is a sigle criterion, number based ranking, not some sort of subjective opinon. How in the world was it possible that so many schools had the same numbers.</p>
<p>They are all really good prep schools and what one school has that makes it #1 another school has something else that makes it #1.</p>
<p>What are the PrepReview rankings based upon?</p>
<p>Ivy Admissions I think.</p>
<p>Okay… (Prep Review 2010)
- What does Prep Review rate? The Ivy’s + Stanford + MIT.
- Their top ranked school has been consistently St. Paul’s over time, but it is always close. (a biased but accurate statement)
- The differences are slight. This year (alphabetically to avoid charges of bias) Andover, Exeter and St. Paul’s are tied for 1st at 30%.
- The second tier are all tied for 4th. They are (alphabetically) Groton, Milton and Nobel & Greenough.
- The 3rd tier are all tied for 7th. They are (alphabetically) Deerfield and Lawrenceville.
- They also rank SAT scores. The Top Five (alphabetically: Andover, Exeter, Groton, Milton & St. Paul’s) are with in 1.7% of each other. So statistically meaningless deviations. Note: that Nobel & Greenough does not report their SAT scores, so it is harder to reach conclusions but on all the other measures they fall below these 5 schools. </p>
<p>**So what does this all mean? Well among other things the same five schools have both the highest average SAT’s and the highest admittance rates to the Ivy’s + Stanford + MIT. I know it could be a coincidence. But is it? **</p>
<p>Recognize that the top tier schools tend, ceteris paribus, to attract bright students, who tend to do well, and who tend to get into challenging colleges. I suspect the causality ends there. Those same students would have excelled at any school they attended, achieved the same SAT scores and in all likelihood may have gone to the same colleges. </p>
<p>So the Top five in Admissions are also the top five in SAT’s. But Prep Review provides a wealth of other statistics. What Statistical differences are there among these five schools?
- Exeter & St. Pauls offer many more AP courses.
- All but St. Paul’s have day students.
- Endowment per student is, in order: Exeter-Groton-St. Paul’s- Andover-Milton
- Size is: Exeter, Andover and Milton are very large (900-1100) , St. Paul’s is medium sized (530), Groton is smaller (350)
- Milton has the largest class size<a href=“14”>/u</a>, Andover, Exeter and Groton are all medium (12-13); St. Paul’s has the smallest (10).
- Milton and St. Paul’s have the most international students<a href=“15%”>/u</a>, with the others ranging from 9-11%.
- Percentage of students on financial aid<a href=“high%20to%20low”>/u</a> are: Exeter (41), Andover (35), St. Paul’s (33), Groton (30), and Milton (26).</p>
<p>As I have said many times, there are many great students and many great schools. At every school there are truly outstanding students. Every school has areas they excel in. Any student or parent that picks a school by Prep Review statistics or the student’s average SAT scores is making a mistake. Attending any of these schools will, in all likelihood, not improve your SAT scores. Attending a school where you cannot survive academically will be a mistake. Some of these schools ARE more difficult, and at some your average peer will perform better academically than you will. </p>
<p>So apply to the school that is right for you. Apply to a school where you can flourish. Your school is always THE best school and the right school for you.</p>
<p>Winterset - I thought SPS didn’t offer specifically designated AP courses?</p>