this year's college matriculation

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<p>I wonder which boarding schools have posted the outcome of this year's college matriculation. I understand that a final full list may not be available yet as there may still be some slight changes over the summer, but I am sure the big picture won't change much. When do they usually disclose that information?</p>

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<p>Andover did on their website. Don’t know of any other schools that did as well. Maybe the current parents and students can share some of the ‘insider info’? I am particularyly interested in SPS, Deerfield and Exeter.</p>

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<p>SPS: [St</a>. Paul’s School ~ News Portal](<a href=“http://www.sps.edu/podium/default.aspx?t=6183]St”>http://www.sps.edu/podium/default.aspx?t=6183)</p>

<p>“Columbia is the most popular destination for Form members with seven Sixth Formers choosing to attend, followed by Georgetown and Yale with six each. At least four SPS graduates each will attend Tufts, Middlebury, Brown, Harvard, UVA, Carnegie Mellon, and Dartmouth.”</p>

<p>The form probably had around 120-140 students…I’m estimating. Judging by that, there was 25 ivy leaguers…leaving 2 Ivy league schools with 0-3 students attending. The article was also before people possibly got off of waitlists.</p>

<p>These rough numbers would suggest an estimated 1/3 of the class attending Ivy league schools if the class is around 120 or 1/3 attending top 25 colleges if the class is more around 140. Probably somewhere in the middle. Pretty good.</p>

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<p>Here’s the link to Andover’s.</p>

<p>[Phillips</a> Academy - School Profile & College Matriculations](<a href=“http://www.andover.edu/Academics/CollegeCounseling/Pages/SchoolProfileCollegeMatriculations.aspx]Phillips”>http://www.andover.edu/Academics/CollegeCounseling/Pages/SchoolProfileCollegeMatriculations.aspx)</p>

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<p>Thanks for the SPS link. The article says that the total number of applications was 1,144 and the average number of schools each student applied to was 8, so the size of the graduating class was roughly 140 (1144/8=143). </p>

<p>And thanks for the Andover link, which is the FULL list.</p>

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<p>Yea I was going more by how many students SPS has. They have 525, assuming every form has around the same number of students, they would have around 130. That’s why I just said 120-140.</p>

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<p>Deerfield: <a href=“http://www.deerfield.edu/files/2009Matriclist.PDF[/url]”>http://www.deerfield.edu/files/2009Matriclist.PDF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Nice! In this rate, we can calculate our own IVY+SM percentages for each school, and drive PrepReview out of business in no time. :slight_smile: Exeter, anyone?</p>

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<p>are pg admits included for deerfield? if so, that would change the equation.</p>

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<p>Yea PGs are included, I asked my interviewer that when he showed me the matriculation list at my interview.</p>

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<p>I can’t access the SPS list
Where on the News Portal is it?</p>

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<p>It looks like someone “hijacked” my thread, but I don’t mind. :slight_smile: Glad there’s some activities going on. Including PGs makes sense to me, as this data should come from college couseling offices, so any placement that went through a school’s college counseling service should be counted.</p>

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<p>Aren’t most of the pgs already admitted to the top schools when they enroll for the pg year?</p>

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<p>Isn’t there an SPS list somewhere of what colleges the seniors are going off to this September?</p>

<p>Some PG’s graduate their PG year and go to less-than-top schools. Some of these less-than-top schools are feeders for the pro athlete teams. Yes, they are usually pre admitted to the college prior to the PG year.</p>

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<p>Sarum: I havent found any actual list for sps.</p>

<p>Notnim: I just click news and events and click the little archive on the bottom, then look for the title having something about college placement in it.</p>

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<p>Because Hotchkiss publishes, from what I can tell, only a 4 year rolling total for its annual college matriculation list (or, at least, such has been the case for the last two years), it is hard, if not impossible, to determine how many '09 Hotchkiss grads are going to what schools. That said, I understand that Hotchkiss had better numbers this year at many of the most selective schools than it had enjoyed in the past few years. In this light, here are comps between years '05-'08 and years '06-'09, for what it is worth, for IVY/Standford/MIT:</p>

<pre><code> 2006-09: Princeton 21 2005-08: Penn 19
Yale 20 Yale 17
Brown 15 Princeton 16
Penn 14 Cornell 14
Columbia 13 Dartmouth 11
Dartmouth 11 Harvard 11
Cornell 10 Brown 11
Harvard 10 Stanford 9
Stanford 10 Columbia 7
MIT 3 MIT 3
</code></pre>

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<p>Al teast they’re using college matriculation data and not college acceptances. At one school I know, they say something like "In the past 5 years, our students have been accepted at x, y, z…not mentioning that many of those acceptances were from one or two particularly brilliant students!</p>

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<p>Amazing, Deerfiled didn’t send one student to Columbia.</p>

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<p>Exeter rolling matriculation total for the 3 years 2006-2008: (haven’t seen 07-09 yet)
Amherst 8
Barnard 5
Brown 19
Cal Tech 2
Cambridge (UK) 2
Carnegie Mellon 24
Chicago 12
Cornell 23
Dartmough 32
Duke 20
Georgetown 35
Harvard 40
Johns Hopkins 16
MIT 19
Mc Gill 12
Middlebury 14
NYU 31
Penn 26
Princeton 33
Smith 5
Stanford 20
Trinity (CT) 15
Tufts 24
Wellesley 14
Wesleyan 13
Williams 6
Yale 30</p>

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<p>I should have added to my previous post that the senior class at Hotchkiss averaged in size around 163 students during the years 2005-08, but I think that the class of '09 may have had up to 185 graduates.</p>