<p>I attend a very competitive public high school on Long Island (NY) with each grade having about 180 kids. I thought it would be interesting to see where most people attend college. The list is not perfect but it contains a large enough sample size to see trends which I compiled from my yearbook and facebook. I think attending a certain high school has a large influence on your decision. For example, I highly doubt Loyola Maryland would be on any other high schools top 5 or if Boston College and NYU get 40+ applications each year at other schools. Certain competitive schools are extremely popular while others people seem not to care about at all. I am curious if other high schools have certain schools that dominate in applications. </p>
<p>Most Popular Colleges [2001-2004]</p>
<li> NYU [21]</li>
<li> Boston College [18]</li>
<li> Cornell [15]</li>
<li> Boston University [14]</li>
<li> Loyola Maryland [13]</li>
<li> Delaware [12]</li>
<li> SUNY Binghamton [11]</li>
<li> Georgetown [10]
University of Michigan [10]
SUNY-Albany [10]</li>
<li> Fairfield [9]
Columbia [9]</li>
<li> Vanderbilt [8]
George Washington [8]
University of Miami [8]
Hobart and William Smith [8]</li>
<li>Duke [7]
Harvard [7]
Brown [7]
Fordham [7]
Richmond [7]
UPenn [7]
Villanova [7]</li>
<li> Yale [6]
Quinnipiac [6]
UNC [6]
Syracuse [6]
Hofstra [6]</li>
<li> Wake Forest [5]
Northeastern [5]
Carnegie Mellon [5]</li>
<li> Princeton [4]
Washington and Lee [4]
John Hopkins [4]
SUNY-Stony Brook [4]
SUNY- Geneseo [4]
James Madison [4]
Muhlenberg [4]
Haverford [4]
Emory [4]
UVA [4]
Colorado [4]</li>
</ol>
<p>Three Students: </p>
<p>Dartmouth<br>
C of C<br>
Hartford<br>
Lehigh
Tulane<br>
Stanford<br>
Colby<br>
Towson
Bucknell<br>
Penn State
Davidson<br>
Sacred Heart
Maryland<br>
U Rochester
Hamilton<br>
Marist
USC<br>
Notre Dame<br>
St. Johns<br>
William and Mary
Skidmore<br>
Swarthmore</p>
<p>Two Students:</p>
<p>Pepperdine<br>
Colgate<br>
Middlebury<br>
University of Florida<br>
UGA<br>
Bentley
Amherst<br>
Long Island
Scranton<br>
American<br>
Denison<br>
Manhattan
McGill<br>
Lafayette<br>
College of New Jersey<br>
Tufts
Scranton<br>
SUNY- Buffalo
Catholic<br>
Seton Hall<br>
Cooper Union<br>
Bates
Dickinson<br>
U Mass<br>
Wisconsin<br>
Eastern CT
RIT<br>
Case Western
Indiana<br>
Cincinnati
MIT<br>
Adelphi
Clemson<br>
Conn. College
USF<br>
Virginia Tech<br>
Vermont
Williams </p>
<p>A few interesting facts:</p>
<p>There are 18 Kids at Boston College but only two at Tufts.
There are 13 Kids at Loyola in Maryland but only three at U. Maryland
Every kid who went to California went to Stanford, Pepperdine, or USC.
Many kids seem to go to big cities: New York, Boston, DC, etc.
Out of USNEWS Top 20: Schools like Cornell, Vanderbilt, and Duke are very popular and each get tons of applications each year while Rice, Northwestern, and Wash U. are extremely unpopular.</p>
<p>I’m sure you can find other interesting trends but I am curious to what colleges dominate at your high school.</p>
<p>My school has some very bright students in our small honors program, and then a lot of average ones. Most are focused around schools the area, attending schools like Penn State, Slippery Rock, the community college, and Pitt. I know one girl got to Yale and another Barnard, but I haven't heard from many seniors. I think the honors students in my grade will probably aim higher than this year's seniors and go for good LACS and ivies.</p>
<p>As you would expect....primarily a regional distribution with the occasional kid to the south,etc. ....Around here the bulk go to Bama or Auburn, a good # to Georgia, Ole Miss, B'ham Southern.....then the Rhodes, Sewanees,etc. Only a handful up north....</p>
<p>All schools have colleges that are most popular, with some shifts year to year. At my school more than half the class applies to one or more of HYPS. Then the other ivies. MIT gets maybe a tenth of every class applying. Small top LACs come next. UVA is popular as is NYU and BC. This would be a typical competitive NE prep school.</p>
<p>United States
University of Virginia (15)
University of Pennsylvania (7)
Georgetown University (6)
Oberlin College (6)
Princeton University (6)
George Washington University (5)
Amherst College (4)
Columbia University (4)
Cornell University (4)
New York University (4)
Virginia Tech University (4)
Boston University (3)
Duke University (3)
Macalester College (3)
Tufts University (3)
Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (3)
Univ. of Maryland - College Park (3)
Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (3)
Yale University (3)
American University (2)
Bard College (2)
Barnard College (2)
Brown University (2)
College of William and Mary (2)
Fordham University (2)
George Mason University (2)
Harvard University (2)
Marymount University (2)
Reed College (2)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Univ. (2)
Sarah Lawrence College (2)
Tulane University (2)
University of Chicago (2)
Vassar College (2)
Academy of Art College
Berklee College of Music
Boston College
California College of Arts
Carnegie Mellon
Colby College
Colgate University
College of Charleston
Colorado College
Corcoran College of Art
Dartmouth College
Eastman School of Music
Hampshire College
James Madison University
Maryland Institute College of Art
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mt. Holyoke College
North Carolina State University
Northwestern University
Olin College
Pace University
Rhode Island School of Design
Rice University
Roanoke College
Rutgers University
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Smith College
Swarthmore College
Syracuse University
Trinity College (CT)
Union College
Univ. of California - Berkeley
Univ. of California-Santa Barbara
University of Indiana - Bloomington
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Southern California
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Wake Forest University
Washington University St. Louis
Wesleyan University</p>
<p>Argentina
Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
Universidad Católica Argentina</p>
<p>Canada
McGill University (11)
University of Toronto (11)
University of British Columbia (2)
Bishops University
Concordia University
Queens University</p>
<p>Denmark
Københavns Universite</p>
<p>India
Manipal University
St. Stephens College-Delhi</p>
<p>Ireland
Trinity College Dublin (4)
Royal College of Surgeons (3)</p>
<p>Spain
Instituto Católico de Administración y
Dirreción de Empresas</p>
<p>Switzerland
École Hôtelière de Glion
Franklin College</p>
<p>United Kingdom
University of Bristol (5)
School of Oriental & African Studies(4)
Imperial College London (3)
King's College London (3)
London School of Economics (3)
University College London (3)
University of Durham (3)
University of Edinburgh (3)
Cardiff University (2)
University of Glasgow (2)
University of Leeds (2)
University of St Andrews (2)
Univ. of the West of England-Bristol (2)
Wimbledon School of Art (2)
Cambridge University
Central Saint Martins College of Art
Kent Institute of Art and Design
London Guildhall
Manchester Metropolitan University
Middlesex University
Queen Mary & Westfield
Surrey Institute of Art and Design
University of Brighton
University of East Anglia
University of Kent
University of Manchester
University of Reading
University of Southampton
University of Sussex
University of York</p>
<p>Small Private High School in Los Angeles... Class of 2005
1. University of Southern California
2. UCLA
3. Layola Marymount University<br>
4. Rochester
5. NYU<br>
6. UC Irvine
7. Mount Saint Mary's<br>
8. UC San Diego<br>
9. UC Riverside</p>
<p>Private School in Miami (80 students in Class of 05)</p>
<p>Most popular colleges this year seems to be: UM, UF, UCF, Tulane, GW, BU, Indiana University, and University of Colorado at Boulders. At least 3 people or going to each of these school (More at UM, UF, and UCF).</p>
<p>Other colleges with more than one student going are: Georgetown, Duke, NYU, FSU.</p>
<p>All the others are just random. Standford (1), Penn (1), USC (1), Vassar (1), Syracuse (1), etc...</p>
<p>Well unfortunately Taco Bell has seen a rise in applications in the past few years so it has made admission really competitive. With the advent of the Chalupa and Gordita, high school students have been applying in droves! The administration basically tells our students not to shoot for the stars and stay with the always dependable McDonald's. On a positive note, I hear they gain a lot at McDonald's and Burger King...weight that is.</p>
<p>Out of classes of approximately 220 students, my school has sent something like 47 kids to Cornell in the past five years, according to our profile. That's pretty ridiculous - going to college with ten kids from you graduating class. Doesn't sound to appealing. Other notable schools that over 30 students have moved on to in the past five years include NYU, U of Michigan, SUNY Binghamton, Boston University, and Syracuse.</p>
<p>Ha, at least your school sends ANY kids to cornell...try going to college with 0 kids from your graduating class...I doubt my school has ever sent anyone to the Ivies (the closest thing is MIT, which is pretty good, but its only 1 kid)</p>
<p>Yes, we've heard of W. Coast schools. Stanford is the only one, right? So the most interesting thing to me is that every year we have a speaker from the UCs come to our school. I never gave it much thought until I came on CC where UCs are so popular. Lots of kids (18%) at our school are from California, yet year after year not one kid has gone to a UC!! What's up here?</p>
