<p>regarding post 289</p>
<p>Hunter College High School, NYC, public approx 30% to Ivy, class size 185-190 ; a dozen to H each year; approx 2000-2004</p>
<p>jPoD, i've heard of some very competitive ones but do not know their exact names. they tend to send about 50% of the entire class to ivies, and 'ivy-esque' schools.</p>
<p>via PM...I think this is for 2005...take a look at MIT placement...one of the biggest I've seen, especially from a relatively small class.</p>
<p>Class size= 124</p>
<ol>
<li>UC Davis 15</li>
<li>UC Berkeley 14</li>
<li>UCLA 9</li>
<li>MIT 7</li>
<li>Stanford 7</li>
<li>Penn 6</li>
<li>Yale 5</li>
<li>NYU 4</li>
<li>UCSD 4</li>
<li>Wellesley 4</li>
<li>Boston U 3</li>
<li>Santa Clara 3</li>
<li>UC Irvine 3</li>
<li>USC 3</li>
<li>Boston C 2</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon 2</li>
<li>Case Western 2</li>
<li>Columbia 2</li>
<li>Cornell 2</li>
<li>George Washington 2</li>
<li>Northwestern 2</li>
<li>Princeton 2</li>
<li>Chicago 2
.................................
Mean SATs for Class of 06:
CR= 678
M= 698
W= 690</li>
</ol>
<p>Class size: ~173 students</p>
<ol>
<li>Cornell University-11</li>
<li>U. of Pennsylvania-11</li>
<li>Harvard-10</li>
<li>Yale-10</li>
<li>Georgetown-8</li>
<li>Columbia-7</li>
<li>U. of Michigan-7</li>
<li>George Washington-6</li>
<li>Northwestern-6</li>
<li>Princeton-6</li>
<li>Vassar -6</li>
<li>Brown-4</li>
<li>Hamilton-4</li>
<li>Trinity (CT.)-4</li>
<li>Wesleyan-4</li>
<li>Bard College-3</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon-3</li>
<li>Swarthmore-3</li>
</ol>
<p>Class size: ~ 97</p>
<ol>
<li>UGA 13</li>
<li>Emory 12</li>
<li>U Miami 7</li>
<li>Elon 5</li>
<li>Oxford College 5</li>
<li>NYU 5</li>
<li>MoreHouse 5</li>
<li>GWU 5</li>
<li>Brown 4</li>
<li>SCAD 4</li>
<li>USC 4</li>
<li>WUSL 4</li>
<li>Stanford 3</li>
<li>Earlham 3</li>
<li>FSU 3</li>
<li>Coll of Charleston 3</li>
<li>Colorado Boulder 3</li>
<li>Pomona 3</li>
<li>Sarah Lawrence 3</li>
<li>Vanderbilt 3</li>
<li>Georgia Tech 3</li>
</ol>
<p>Class size = 51 </p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard 6</li>
<li>Dartmouth 4</li>
<li>Princeton 3</li>
<li>Georgetown 3</li>
<li>Bowdoin 3</li>
<li>Penn 3</li>
<li>MIT 2</li>
<li>Yale 2</li>
<li>U Chicago 2</li>
<li>U Miami 2</li>
<li>Boston College 2</li>
<li>Amherst 1</li>
<li>Colby 1</li>
<li>Columbia 1</li>
<li>Cornell 1</li>
<li>Duke 1</li>
<li>Guilford 1</li>
<li>Hamilton 1</li>
<li>Holy Cross 1</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins 1</li>
<li>Middlebury 1</li>
<li>Northeastern 1</li>
<li>Trinity 1</li>
<li>Tufts 1</li>
<li>Union 1</li>
<li>USMI 1</li>
<li>UVA 1</li>
<li>Wooster 1</li>
</ol>
<p>Roxbury Latin -- that's darn impressive (not shocking, but darn impressive). What happened to the other two kids?</p>
<p>gap year I am told</p>
<p>How does Rox. Latin not have ONE kid at BU???</p>
<ul>
<li>an update with 2006 included</li>
</ul>
<p>Class size: 133 average (124 '05, 142 '06)</p>
<ol>
<li>UC Berkeley * 33</li>
<li>UC Davis * 25</li>
<li>U of Penn 15</li>
<li>UC San Diego * 14</li>
<li>UCLA * 12</li>
<li>MIT 11</li>
<li>Stanford 11</li>
<li>UC Irvine * 9</li>
<li>CMU 8</li>
<li>NYU 8</li>
<li>USC 8</li>
<li>Santa Clara U 7</li>
<li>Wellesley 7</li>
<li>Boston U 6</li>
<li>Columbia 5</li>
<li>Cornell 5</li>
<li>Harvard 5</li>
<li>Princeton 5</li>
<li>Cal Poly SLO * 4</li>
<li>GWU 4</li>
<li>SMU 4</li>
</ol>
<p>With 3 to Boston College and Northwestern, and 2 each to many other schools including Brown, Caltech, Case, Dartmouth, Smith, U Chicago, UIUC, Vassar, WUStL.
( * = University of California or Cal State school)</p>
<p>Avg. SAT score, Class of '07 = 2081 / 2400
55% of the Class of '07 are National Merit recognized (Semi-Finalist or Commended)</p>
<p>"I understand your point about Bishop Fenwick, there are no Ivy league schools listed on its matriculation list. However, there is BC, ND, HC and Georgetown along with a significant number of other catholic colleges, i.e. Providence College, St. Anselms, etc.</p>
<p>I believe some of the colleges have 3 classifications, public, private and parochial for admissions. I guess my question is, did the top of the class only apply to ND, BC, Georgetown and HC? Or did they apply to the Ivys and SWAP and not get in"</p>
<p>As an alumni of BFHS, I can tell you that lots of kids have the total package to get into Ivy League schools. However, adcoms look over Bishop Fenwick because of the other schools that are close in proximity to the school, but have better reputations or better connections in those adcom offices. It stinks, but most kids end up where they are supposed to -- but in the next few years, look for kids going to amazing schools that come out of Bishop Fenwick. It is easily the best school for academics and athletics coming out of the Archdiosese in Boston.</p>
<p>Surfalicious: How about a third possibility: Kids applied to both Catholics and non-Catholic elites, were accepted at both, but chose the Catholic? I've known several kids who turned down an ivy for ND or BC. Kids from Catholic schools will be naturally predisposed toward a Catholic college. Quite possibly, there are many alumni/legacy traditions in their families.</p>
<p>My d's h.s. does a list of acceptances for each graduating class with the number of kids accepted in parenthesis and an asterick if anyone actually matriculated. I noticed that last year, very few kids went to ivies, yet many were admitted. It's a Catholic h.s. (rigorous, but not one of those nationally recognized schools) and many girls just gravitate toward the Catholic colleges.</p>
<p>Interesting lists: Clearly their are regional influences and of course the top Ivy's will be represented. I wonder about the second tier schools, whether the stronger influence comes from high school guidance counselors, private counsellors in the area of the high school or recruiting by the college. I ask this because I see certain schools well represented on some lists (ex: Tufts) and then not at all on other lists. Curious.</p>
<p>blucroo-- my personal opinion (disclaimer: a non-GC parent) is that there are 2 basic phenomona at work here:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>personal connection with HS GC and admissions staff at specific colleges. I think this probably is applicable more to the private schools. Once a trusting relationship is established between individuals, further collaboration is promoted, i.e., more students are pushed to that college, and more of them are favorable evaluated. At my son's HS for instance, I know these connections have existed for some time with schools like Georgetown, Princeton, Cornell, Vanderbilt, UVa, and Tufts.</p></li>
<li><p>Fads.....may start by an entrepreneuring alumnus or by a college rep visit, but students definitely seem to "pile on" certain schools for a period of a few years, then things may cool off. Again, using my son's HS, there has been a huge surge in Wake matriculants over the past 5 years which is cooling off a bit now, and Sewanee is still in the ramp-up phase. Brown is hot for kids in my son's class to apply to at the moment, but I don't believe the school has personal relationships akin to those they have at Georgetown, etc....lots of kids just talking more about Brown, and more end up applying....big snowball.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Stickershock--I can only speak for the class of '05 (my class!) and tell you that we had one girl (the val.) apply to one Ivy, Harvard, just to see if she would get in, and she didn't. She was one of those people with just grades, but our saludatorian (spelling?) had the total package. The 2 were seperated by a tiny margin and both had 4.8 GPA's on a 4.0 scale. He was a tri-captain, recruitable athlete, involved in many clubs, had a near perfect SAT score, blah blah blah... and our guidance office told him not to bother applying to Ivy League schools. He's at an elite Catholic school now and is thriving there, but one has to wonder if he would have gotten into a school like HYP. I guess it doesn't matter now, but I was bored last night searching for my high school, and had to chime in my .2 :)</p>
<p>Great job with all this fascinating information. Thank you.</p>
<p>I'd be really interested in seeing the destinations of students who attended secondary schools known for their strengths in/specializing in the arts (whether permforming or visual). That may be a question for another thread, though, as I don't know people connected to those schools would be reading this area.</p>
<p>Great question Grace. Well, weve covered Catholic schools, Jewish schools, Islamic schools, HSs near selective colleges, and much more .why not schools stressing the arts?</p>
<p>Not having too much luck finding arts HSs that post matriculation lists, although some do qualitatively describe their placement.</p>
<p>Sources:
<a href="http://www.walnuthillarts.org/school/placement_list.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.walnuthillarts.org/school/placement_list.html</a>
<a href="http://72.14.209.104/u/WalnutHillSchool?q=cache:Ic-NkLa73NkJ:www.walnuthillarts.org/welcome/faqs.html+profile&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5&ie=UTF-8%5B/url%5D">http://72.14.209.104/u/WalnutHillSchool?q=cache:Ic-NkLa73NkJ:www.walnuthillarts.org/welcome/faqs.html+profile&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5&ie=UTF-8</a></p>
<p>class size ~75 </p>
<p>quite impressive list</p>
<p>1 Juilliard School 24
2 New England Conservatory 21
3 New York University 13
4 Boston Conservatory 12
5 Boston University 11
6 Carnegie Mellon University 10
6 Maryland College Institute of Art 10
8 Indiana University 9
8 Manhattan School of Music 9
10 Oberlin College 8
11 Parsons School of Design 7
11 University of Cincinnati 7
13 Rhode Island School of Design 6
13 School of the Art Institute of Chicago 6
13 Smith College 6
13 University of Michigan 6
17 California Institute of the Arts 5
17 Marymount Manhattan College 5
17 McGill University 5
17 Roosevelt University 5
17 University of Southern California 5
17 Vassar College 5</p>