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<p>Hi, in 2004 there was a ranking of the top private and public schools in the country based on matriculation to top colleges. Does anyone have the list by any chance?</p>

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<p>See post #57 from "Boarding School Reputation" thread</p>

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<p>Correction - #57 from the "Prep school reputations" thread.</p>

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<p>Thanks, those are very interesting/helpful too but I was actually talking about the Wall Street Journals publication. I can find the article about the rankings, but I can't seem to find the actual table with rankings.</p>

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<p>it doesnt work ranking schools this way..becoz for example..i know for a fact that kids in deerfield are more ivy fetish (many more have ivies as dream schools) while a lot of kids at hotchkiss likes the top LAC counterpart (thus much higher matriculation at middlebury, swarthmore and williams and so on)and therefore many who would have gotten into ivies should they had applied went to midd, swat and will instead....</p>

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<p>That's a good point, but the ranking used 20 colleges including liberal arts such as Williams, Swarthmore, Amherst etc. Sorry I don't think I made that clear.</p>

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<p>bearcats, you are absolutely correct. I have pointed this out along time ago with regard to Hotchkiss. I also believe that many of the smaller schools have students that will choose smaller liberal arts colleges over larger places including the "ivies".</p>

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<p>im so confused...i searched CC for the WSJ rankings..are they out there? anyone? please help!!</p>

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<p>Here's a link: <a href="http://webreprints.djreprints.com/wsj_tuition_040104.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://webreprints.djreprints.com/wsj_tuition_040104.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>thanks..is that article attached to something else you can post?</p>

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<p>Accompanying article: <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/SB108085665347972031.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/SB108085665347972031.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>According to "The price of admission" Princeton High has many students who have parents that either teach or are associated in other ways with Princeton. This will give a advantage to students. So in 2003 12 went to princeton, but many had a boost with parents teaching at Princeton.</p>

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<p>same thing with ithaca high where most kids hav parents at cornell</p>

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<p>The PDF rankings you posted should be viewed with great caution as they only list schools that had over 50 students in the grade. You may be looking for the top schools with more than 50 students, but most rankings have other schools at the top. Saint Ann's is usually a lot farther down.</p>