<p>Is it possible for a public high school student to get accepted into top Ivy League schools?</p>
<p>Yes, many thousands do each year. By no means do you have to go to a private school.</p>
<p>That said, it is exceedingly difficult, regardless of what high school you go to (public or private).</p>
<p>Haha yes. My public school has like 20 kids go to ivy league schools every year.</p>
<p>Very possible this year about 50 kids from my school got into Ivies.</p>
<p>^Yeah, we had about fifty, too, at my public high school.</p>
<p>What kind of question is this?</p>
<p>Are public school kids dumb now?</p>
<p>@daxlo5</p>
<p>no public school kids aren’t dumb…i was just trying to prove to my friend that it is possible to get into an ivy league school without going to a prep/private school</p>
<p>A lot of people believe only rich kids from Eastern private schools get into the Ivy League.</p>
<p>Totally. I’m from a public school and I got into Penn. I was also the first person in my school’s history to get into Penn. Another kid at my school got into Brown, two into Stanford (which is not an Ivy League school but hey, HYPS right)…it’s definitely possible.</p>
<p>What the hell? 50 from a public school into ivies? That’s sooo many. This year, my school has had like 10> that got accepted into the ivies, and that was so much more than in the past few years. Senior class has about 500 kids.</p>
<p>^That’s what I was thinkin exactly.
My public school had like 0 people get into Ivies… But a few are going to other Top schools that aren’t Ivies like Chicago, Northwestern, Emory…</p>
<p>there are a lot of really good public schools</p>
<p>and a lot of bad ones</p>
<p>guess it depends which one you get</p>
<p>my son got into harvard, penn and cornell from a public school, 500 seniors. (he was # 1.) Don’t know if other kids got into Ivies this year.</p>
<p>Yes. 15 kids in my school alone (and there are two high schools in our district) got into Princeton.</p>
<p>If your public school is ranked poorly, it will be much more difficult to get into an Ivy League school. Less opportunities will be available to you, less resources will be designated to helping you, and its much less likely you will be a competitive candidate. </p>
<p>If your public school is ranked highly, you have just as much of a chance as a kid at a private school- maybe even a better chance. You’ll have plenty of opportunities. All you have to do is take advantage of them. </p>
<p>My public school isn’t that great. No one got into an Ivy this year. I was waitlisted at Cornell and my friend was waitlisted at Harvard (and both of her parents went to Harvard). No one has ever gotten into an Ivy (from what I hear), so that’s not really a surprise.</p>
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There are private schools that are looked upon poorly, too.</p>
<p>[Scroll</a> down to the bottom. 58.5% of Princeton’s class of 2014 came from public schools.](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admission_statistics/]Scroll”>http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admission_statistics/)</p>
<p>how many of those were magnet/charter/etc</p>
<p>^^ I think no matter how poorly a private school is ranked, its still above the lower half of public schools, i.e. ones that aren’t magnet, charters, or in affluent neighborhoods.</p>
<p>Anyway, I go to a public school and recently I received an acceptance to UPenn. My school is fairly crappy, with a good half of the kids that do graduate either not furthering their education or attending community college (nothing against the cc system). I am, I’m pretty sure, the first student from my school to ever be accepted to an ivy, period. I think if you try your damn hardest and are sincere then your circumstances won’t matter. Still though, I’m pretty shocked too.</p>
<p>My public school has ~400 kids per grade. Each year, somewhere between 25-60 get accepted to Ivies. Then again, our district absolutely sucks at sports (except for the except of like 5 amazing kids each year who go to the Ivies for sports), so everyone focuses really hard on academics.</p>