<p>102 in class</p>
<p>1 Cornell U (4)
1 US Naval Academy (4)
3 George Washington U (3)
3 Johns Hopkins U (3)
3 Kenyon College (3)
6 Dickinson College (2)
6 East Carolina U (2)
6 Elon U (2)
6 John Carroll U (2)
6 Ohio State U (2)
6 Pennsylvania, U of (2)
6 Purdue U (2)
6 Vanderbilt U (2)
6 Washington. & Jefferson (2)</p>
<p>The SAT average for Blair was 620/611 for a total of 1231. The numbers listed on their website were inaccurate.</p>
<p>Regarding Blair's matriculation stats:</p>
<p>Actually, 14 out of 127 are attending IVY/SWAP/STANFORD for a total of 11%.</p>
<p>During the 5 year period from 2001-2005 (~167 kids per class)</p>
<p>1) Cornell U. (49)
2) U. of Pennsylvania (47)
3) Columbia (44)
4) Harvard (42)
5) Yale (38)
6) U. Wisconsin (30)
7) Georgetown (26)
8) Princeton (25)
9) Brown (24)
10) Washington U. (22)
11) Tufts (21)
12) George Washington (20)
13) Colgate (18)
13) Dartmouth (18)
15) U. of Michigan (17)
16) Hamilton (15)
17) Johns Hopkins (14)
18) Stanford (13)
19) Barnard (12)
19) Swarthmore (12)
19) Syracuse (12)</p>
<p>All-- I still plan to slice & dice the data a bit more (but have been waylayed by other things lately plus the dataset has gotten enormous), so for those of you still titilated by this topic (if any!), please let me know what angle may interest you, either by posting on this thread or by PM......not saying I can accomodate every analytical endeavor, but I'd like to hear if any as-yet-unexplored perpective on this matriculation info is more important than others.</p>
<p>At a minimum, I plan to provide some school lists for super-feeders....that is, ones that feed matriculants in high numbers to the elites, and perhaps other selected institutions (e.g., Jesuit universities). This seemed interesting to me, particularly if I imagined myself as an adcom looking to improve my college's applicant pool based on selective shopping. I am almost complete on this effort at least for the elites (HYPSM).</p>
<p>I have found this interesting. Particularly interesting is how local the college destinations for some private school students are.</p>
<p>right- I saw the same thing token- so many kids going to the same schools.</p>
<p>Seems like high quality Catholic high schools are feeder schools for Notre Dame, Holy Cross, Georgetown, etc. Maybe based on tradition or strong sports programs at those high schools.</p>
<p>I know that college counselors at high schools may have long standing relationships with admission officers at colleges, tht might account for some of it.
Brown for instance really heavily recruited students from my daughters Seattle high school, and as a result quite a handful often apply and attend .</p>
<p>1) NYU 53
2) SUNY Stony Brook 48
3) SUNY Binghamton 47
4) Cornell 35
5) Columbia 33
6) Carnegie Mellon 25
7) CUNY Baruch 22
8) University of Michigan 21
9) CUNY City College (inc. Sophie Davis biomed) 20
10) Dartmouth 18
11) Princeton 13
12) St. Johns University 13
13) Brooklyn College 12
14) MIT 11
15) McGill 10
16) RPI 10
17) Wesleyan 10
18) Fordham 9
19) Georgetown 9
20) Johns Hopkins 9
21) Wellesley 9</p>
<p>Catholic colleges and universities give high priority to Catholic kids--and are pressured by the Vatican to do so. Believe it.</p>
<p>Nothing to do with sports.</p>
<p>offensive catholic bashing should be removed</p>
<p>Catholic universities don't give priority to Catholic kids; thye just get an overwhelming number of Catholic applicants.</p>
<p>Ok, I promised to summarize a few things, so here's the first installment.</p>
<p>If I were an adcom wanting to go shopping for top quality high school students, I'd go look at which high schools fed the elites. So here's my assessment of that shortlist.</p>
<p>For this analysis, size matters. That is, this penalizes the smaller schools because they produce fewer graduates. But, again, if I were looking for low-hanging fruit, I'd definitely be shopping at the big producers of high quality students.</p>
<p>METHODS....... I counted the number of matriculants per year to the Ivys, Stanford, MIT and SWAP schools, then assigned points to the HS based upon number of matriculants to each elite college over a minimum threshold. Yes, this system is totally arbitrary, concocted my me, but its the closest I could come to doing a quick shopping list ranking, again with the fictional adcom challenge of cherry picking high-potential recruiting targets. Its gets more subjective, because I wanted to account for college size a tad in the scoring, so here's how I assigned points:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>small schools.....SWAP.....1 point if 2 or more matriculants at each individual SWAP (e.g., abc high school scored one point if 2 graduates per year attended Amherst);</p></li>
<li><p>mid-size......Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, MIT....1 point if 3 or more matriculants at each school;</p></li>
<li><p>larger.....all others.......1 point if 4 or more matriculants at each school.</p></li>
<li><p>an extra point if the number of matriculants exceeded 3 times the thresholds above (e.g., if abc high school had 12 matriculants/year going to Penn, 1 point was assigned for being >4, and another point added for >12)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>There happened to be 25 schools of those I have recorded during the progress of this thread (110 total), that produced a "feeder" score of 3 or more. So here is the ranking, starting with highest score. This is not pretty, but there are plenty of data here to chew on.......</p>
<p>RANK / SCORE High School/ State REGION ( Yrs of Data ) Class Size/ Colleges being FED (** = super-feeder for that college)<br>
1 / 18 Exeter NH NewEng ( 3 ) 312 Co-ed HARV** YALE** PRIN** PENN** CORN BROW COLU DART STAN MIT SWAR WILL AMHE POMO
1 / 18 Stuyvesant* NY MidAlt ( 1 ) 800 Co-ed HARV YALE PRIN** PENN CORN** BROW COLU** DART** MIT** WILL** AMHE POMO
3 / 15 Andover MA NewEng ( 5 ) 315 Co-ed HARV** YALE** PRIN PENN CORN** BROW** COLU DART STAN MIT WILL<br>
4 / 11 Harvard Westlake CA West ( 1 ) 267 Co-ed HARV YALE PRIN PENN** CORN BROW COLU** STAN AMHE<br>
4 / 11 Thomas Jefferson HS * VA MidAlt ( 4 ) 415 Co-ed HARV YALE PRIN** PENN CORN DART STAN MIT** AMHE<br>
6 / 10 Deerfield MA NewEng ( 5 ) 165 Co-ed HARV YALE PRIN PENN CORN BROW COLU DART WILL AMHE<br>
6 / 10 Lawrenceville NJ MidAlt ( 6 ) 190 Co-ed HARV YALE PRIN PENN CORN BROW COLU DART STAN WILL<br>
6 / 10 Milton MA NewEng ( 3 ) 181 Co-ed HARV YALE PENN CORN BROW COLU DART WILL AMHE POMO
6 / 10 St Pauls NH NewEng ( 5 ) 133 Co-ed HARV YALE PRIN PENN CORN BROW COLU DART STAN WILL<br>
10 / 9 Horace Mann NY MidAlt ( 5 ) 160 Co-ed HARV YALE PRIN PENN CORN BROW COLU** DART<br>
10 / 9 Trinity NY MidAlt ( 5 ) 104 Co-ed HARV YALE PRIN PENN CORN BROW COLU DART WILL<br>
12 / 8 Choate CT NewEng ( 5 ) 201 Co-ed HARV YALE PENN CORN BROW COLU WILL AMHE<br>
13 / 6 Pingry NJ MidAlt ( 4 ) 124 Co-ed YALE PRIN PENN CORN BROW DART<br>
14 / 5 Collegiate NY MidAlt ( 5 ) 52 Boys HARV YALE PRIN PENN WILL<br>
14 / 5 Hopkins CT NewEng ( 1 ) 122 Co-ed YALE** BROW COLU WILL<br>
14 / 5 Nobles MA NewEng ( 5 ) 105 Co-ed HARV PENN BROW WILL AMHE<br>
14 / 5 St Ann's NY MidAlt ( 5 ) 75 Co-ed YALE PRIN BROW DART AMHE<br>
18 / 4 Delbarton NJ MidAlt ( 2 ) 101 Boys YALE PRIN COLU AMHE<br>
18 / 4 Gilman MD MidAlt ( 5 ) 99 Boys YALE PRIN PENN CORN<br>
18 / 4 San Francisco Univ CA West ( 5 ) 113 Co-ed YALE STAN WILL AMHE<br>
21 / 3 College Prep CA West ( 5 ) 80 Co-ed HARV STAN POMO
21 / 3 Episcopal Acad PA MidAlt ( 5 ) 115 Co-ed PRIN PENN CORN<br>
21 / 3 Holton Arms MD MidAlt ( 1 ) 73 Girls YALE PRIN WILL<br>
21 / 3 National Cathedral DC MidAlt ( 5 ) 75 Girls YALE PRIN PENN</p>
<ul>
<li>= public high school</li>
</ul>
<p>I will sort & discuss a bit more in subsequent posts, but obviously the biggest take away are the top powerhouse schools like Exeter & Stuy, feeding virtually all the elite colleges on this list.</p>
<p>Aren't some of these admits either legacy/development or athletic admits and not necessarily reflective of the secondary schools' true academic quality? Aand wouldn't adcom "shopping" at these schools contribute to a disheartening lack of socioeonomic diversity at the elite colkeges and universities at a time when such institutions are trying to diversify?</p>
<p>mattmom.....my opinion is yes to both your questions......in sorting & sieving these data, I was struck by how many students were pulled from just a few schools, but recall that this is a very biased sample.....only reported here are high schools that I or others could find posted matriculation lists. </p>
<p>Another interesting statistic is the percentage of any given incoming freshman class represented by the feeder high schools.......I haven't run this for all schools, but that percentage for Princeton, for instance, is roughly 13% for 27 feeder schools which supply on average 3 or more students per year to Princeton.</p>
<p>HARVARD
Exeter NH
Stuyvesant* NY
Andover MA
Harvard Westlake CA
Thomas Jefferson HS * VA
Deerfield MA
Lawrenceville NJ
Milton MA
St Pauls NH
Horace Mann NY
Trinity NY
Choate CT
Collegiate NY
Nobles MA
College Prep CA
Brearley NY
Groton CT
Pine Crest FL</p>
<p>YALE
Exeter NH
Stuyvesant* NY
Andover MA
Harvard Westlake CA
Thomas Jefferson HS * VA
Deerfield MA
Lawrenceville NJ
Milton MA
St Pauls NH
Horace Mann NY
Trinity NY
Choate CT
Pingry NJ
Collegiate NY
Hopkins CT
St Ann's NY
Delbarton NJ
Gilman MD
San Francisco Univ CA
Holton Arms MD
National Cathedral DC
Brearley NY
Groton CT
St Johns TX
Clayton HS * MO</p>
<p>PRINCETON
Exeter NH
Stuyvesant* NY
Andover MA
Harvard Westlake CA
Thomas Jefferson HS * VA
Deerfield MA
Lawrenceville NJ
St Pauls NH
Horace Mann NY
Trinity NY
Pingry NJ
Collegiate NY
St Ann's NY
Delbarton NJ
Gilman MD
Episcopal Acad PA
Holton Arms MD
National Cathedral DC
Bishop's CA
Hun NJ
Menlo CA
St Johns TX
St Marks TX
Westminster GA
Landon MD
Spence NY
Woodberry Forest VA</p>
<p>STANFORD
Exeter NH
Andover MA
Harvard Westlake CA
Thomas Jefferson HS * VA
Lawrenceville NJ
St Pauls NH
San Francisco Univ CA
College Prep CA
Menlo CA
Albuquerque Academy NM
Hockaday TX</p>
<p>MIT
Exeter NH
Stuyvesant* NY
Andover MA
Thomas Jefferson HS * VA
Bishop's CA</p>
<ul>
<li>= public HS</li>
</ul>
<p>Swarthmore
Exeter NH</p>
<p>WILLIAMS
Exeter NH
Stuyvesant* NY
Andover MA
Deerfield MA
Lawrenceville NJ
Milton MA
St Pauls NH
Trinity NY
Choate CT
Collegiate NY
Hopkins CT
Nobles MA
San Francisco Univ CA
Conestoga* PA
McDonogh MD
Sagehill CA
St Andrews DE</p>
<p>AMHERST
Exeter NH
Stuyvesant* NY
Harvard Westlake CA
Thomas Jefferson HS * VA
Deerfield MA
Milton MA
Choate CT
Nobles MA
St Ann's NY
Delbarton NJ
San Francisco Univ CA
Sagehill CA
Poly Prep NY</p>
<p>POMONA
Exeter NH
Stuyvesant* NY
Milton MA
College Prep CA
University Prep WA</p>
<ul>
<li>= public HS</li>
</ul>
<p>Observation.......with 18 HS's making Williams' list, I'd guess that athletic recruiting was an influence. Next highest was Amherst with 13.</p>
<p>Also interesting....Williams & Amherst draw from the same HS's as those feeding the Ivies, as one would expect, with the highest correlation to Yale.</p>
<p>I've defined (albeit imperfectly) Super Feeders to be:</p>
<p>12 or more matriculants per year to:
Penn
Harvard
Columbia
Cornell
Brown
Stanford</p>
<p>9 or more matriculants per year to:
Yale
Princeton
Dartmouth
MIT</p>
<p>6 or more matriculants per year to:
Swarthmore
Williams
Amherst
Pomona</p>
<p>SUPER FEEDERS
Exeter NH: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn
Stuyvesant* NY: Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, MIT, Williams
Andover MA: Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Brown
Harvard Westlake CA:Penn, Columbia
Thomas Jefferson HS * VA: Princeton, MIT
Horace Mann NY: Cornell, Columbia
Hopkins CT: Yale</p>
<p>all for now.....will pick up with Catholic/Jesuit college assessment and perhaps some more demographics analysis sometime soon.</p>