<p>some high schools send 25+ people to Harvard every year?!? What the hell.</p>
<p>Boston Latin might some years.</p>
<p>If you look at the Wall St. Journal article on the 2007 admissions season, Boston Latin (a public school) sent 33 students, 8.7% of its class, to the WSJ's 8 "index" colleges (Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins). It's not out of the question at all that 20+ went to Harvard.</p>
<p>My kids' public high school in Philadelphia, which has a historical relationship with Penn that is pretty analogous to Boston Latin and Harvard, generally sends about 5-6% of its class to Ivies/MIT/Stanford, but Penn usually accounts for 70-80% of that. </p>
<p>By the way, Harvard's freshman classes have been majority public school since some time in the 1920s. I'm sure I have seen some statistics in the past three years, but I can't find them now. What I remember is low-mid 60s as the current percent of enrolled students from public high schools, 30% private, 5% parochial, and a smattering of homeschoolers.</p>
<p>I go to a public school with about 500 people in my class. Usually, about 2 people can get into Harvard a year, but we've only had about 1 matriculating every year, with the rest opting for Yale. </p>
<p>Yeah, it's not surprising at all about BLS. I have a friend who attends there, and I'll be majorly surprised if she doesn't get into Harvard. How many can say that with confidence? Historically, they've just produced a lot.</p>
<p>Public School with about 150 a class and about one or two a year.</p>
<p>Stuy had 19 admits last year, I don't know how many went.</p>
<p>and Stuy is a public HS.</p>
<p>Stuy isn't your average public HS though.</p>
<p>boston latin had 23 go to harvard last year, out of 28 acceptances i think. theres another thread in this forum with a link to the 02138 mag article that had a nearly complete list of all the highschools that the class of 2012 came from if you wnat to check it out.</p>
<p>Stuyvesant has a completely meritocratic admissions process, based on an individual's performance on a single standardized test, and Boston Latin is the oldest public high school in the United States.</p>
<p>They are exceptions from the norm.</p>
<p>Don't bring up Hunter College High School either.</p>
<p>I've met alot less from Hunter then from Stuy or BL. But maybe that's just me as a person. It obviously sends its students to the best schools in the country.</p>
<p>I went to a suburban public high school, and am among 3 students that went to Harvard from my year. Most years about 3-4 go, out of 5-6 that are accepted.</p>
<p>Per capita, they send far more of their graduates to Harvard than Stuy or Bronx Sci.</p>
<p>2.7 percent of their Class of 2008 enrolled at Harvard.</p>
<p>I went to a suburban public high school. ~200/graduating class. We have a Harvard acceptance every couple of years.</p>
<p>I go to a large suburban public high school, with like 600 in my class. As far as class offerings and advising, I think we're pretty well off (around 25 AP's, ~15 guidance counselers that are all pretty well-informed) and have at least one Harvard or Yale acceptance each year. Not many of them actually end up there, though-- we're in North Carolina and almost all the kids accepted to HYP are also offered a Morehead or Robinson scholarship. Most take those and go to UNC or Duke because... well, I guess it's hard to turn down a free education with some great basketball, right?</p>
<p>I go to a public high school with a class size around 500-600 every year and, in the school history that I'm aware of, we've only had one student, a URM, go to Harvard and one student, another URM, go to Yale and a small assortment of people go to Cornell and Columbia.</p>
<p>Pitiful much?</p>
<p>Public high school, last two valedictorians went to Harvard, not much success with any other ivies, but who knows what this year will bring??</p>
<p>I go to public shool in Long Island, NY (ranked in mid 300) and last year our val. got into Princeton and two others went to Cornell. We usually send about 1 person to an ivy league every four years or so, and its usually cornell (no offense to Cornell). I applied to 5ivy league schools and so far I got deferred by Yale (I'm also a URM so that helps). I have notice that majority of the ivy league universities are almost even in students that come from private schools and public schools.</p>
<p>I got to a suburban public school (class size ~500). In the last 3 or 4 years, 12 people have been accepted, and 8 have attended.</p>
<p>In a recent Crimson article someone linked to in another thread, the author said that 36% of Harvard students come from private or parochial schools, 64% from public schools. The corresponding numbers for Yale were 46%-54%.</p>
<p>there's quite a few public school students at Harvard, and although public schools in general send a smaller proportion of their graduates to Harvard, the public school grads at Harvard are just as impressive as the private school ones and perform just as well</p>