<p>But A, E and SPS all have 3-4 year data published on their websties; and the IVY+SM percentages are NOT the same. How can they be tied?</p>
<p>Well when I look, they only show me one school. Which is Phillips academy Andover at 3rd with 39%. Maybe it’s a mistake.</p>
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<p>YES!! The paradigm is changing, as are the admissions standards subtly changing in the top top colleges, and so the top top BS’ college admin offices need to get a handle on those changes. As a dad of 5 sons I would like to figure this out asap, so we can adjust accordingly! 
The oldest just graduated Northwestern, the next is a Fr. at SMU, and the next is entering SPS. I hope we don’t have to wait for 2 years into the next Reagan’s term for unemployment to begin dropping, as that would be at least 5 years off !</p>
<p>mpicz, that’s just an ad inserted in the ranking list. No school’s name is shown.</p>
<p>It’s interesting but they have the same percentages - 30% as shown in the report.</p>
<p>Oh ok nevermind then…well they do it in a weird way, I figured since exeter was in the right spot on the BS list that they reveal 1 or 2 schools in every list.</p>
<p>We have “hard” data. We know the overall percentages of 5/4/3 years for Andover, of 4 years for SPS and 3 years for Exeter. And they differ more than 1 or 2 percentage points. You can find details from the prior posts in this thread. (Intuitively, what’s the odd of all these schools have the exact same percentages? ) Oh well, at least PrepReview got a rough picture, which is a bit pathetic for an organization that makes a profit by specializing in it.</p>
<p>They could have done it simply from this year…in which no one really has seen SPS or Exeter fully.</p>
<p>Well they are not “no one”. If they can’t find a copy of Exonian with the matriculation list just as we can’t, then really shouldn’t be in the business. Anyway, it’s fun.</p>
<p>That’s what I’m saying, that WE haven’t seen those matriculation lists and THEY have which could explain the percentages. Ours just come form the last 3 years.</p>
<p>One more year’s numbers would make all three schools’ statstics (which differ by quite a bit) equal? Theorectically possible but unlikely.</p>
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<p>Like I said, they could have put the stats together from simply this years college matriculation and not account for the other years.</p>
<p>Fine print (always look for fine print ;)): “…Ranking of top 25 college preparatory boarding schools in the United States is based on the percentage (estimate) of graduating class during the past 5 year period, if unavailable, a time period of 1 to 4 years is used, entering Ivy League Universities + Stanford & MIT.”</p>
<p>And for 2009, Andover’s percentage is 36.1% (something like that).</p>
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What I found is that parents had absolutely no say in courses. It’s up to the students to talk with department heads, advisers, teachers, deans, and so on in order to determine proper placement. They might be allowed to try harder courses, though generally I’d imagine schools have become adept at placement because they’ve seen so many students. The student should attempt to get into an honors or AP course first, since he/she will be the one attempting to take the course, not the parent, and the student likely knows his/her abilities better than the parent does. But if that fails and both the student and the parents truly believe the student was misplaced, a parent could at least try to contact those in charge of such placement.</p>
<p>Erlanger, you would need to have a good relationship with your childs advisor, talk to them, have them talk to your child, and then perhaps talk to the particular Dept Head. The schools are GENERALLY good at placement, but there are situations where the school easily misreads the student. Dont ever forget that the school does what works best for the majority, not for your particular child. Thats when the parent needs to be an advocate and do what they think will be best for them.</p>
<p>JC65, which school is tied with Deerfield in the 2010 prepreview list? Any other surprises compared with the 2008 list?</p>
<p>Lawrenceville is tied with Deerfield, both with 24% in Ivy Leaque & MIT placement. I realize that most of the BS ivy leaque placement % have dropped from 1% - 10%, a very few remain the same whereas PA / PEA and Noble increase for 1% and 2% respectively which is a bit surprising for me.</p>
<p>Lawrenceville has got a 2% increase as well compared with 2008. I believe that the data of endowment and SAT score has not been updated as some of them are the same as 2008.</p>
<p>Thanks Mhmm and Uroogla.</p>
<p>Thanks JC65 for sharing the “paid information”. It looks like prepreview can only provide a rough “tier” type of ranking, vs. a ranking based on accurate statistics. I would go to the school websites for more info if interested in a particular school. That said, we can see from the ranking an upward trend of Lawrenceville and downward trend of some others in terms of ivy+SM placement. And, there are TOO many ties in this year’s ranking. What were they thinking?</p>