Top 20 MATRICULATION lists from high school web sites

<p>1/ Tulane (15)
2/ Belmont (13)
2/ Vanderbilt (13)
4/ Wash U (12)
5/ Emory (8)
5/ U Tenn (8)
7/ Princeton (7)
7/ Miami U (7)
9/ U Colorado (6)
9/ George Wash (6)
9/ U Penn (6)
12/ U Chicago (5)
12/ Georgetown (5)
12/ NYU (5)
12/ Rhodes (5)
16/ Indiana U (4)
16/ UNC (4)
16/ Northwestern (4)
16/ Wellesley Col (4)
16/ Yale (4)</p>

<p>1/ Earlham College (13)
2/ Franklin & Marshall College (12)
3/ Drew University (11)
3/ Drexel University (11)
5/ University of Delaware (9)
5/ University of Pennsylvania (9)
7/ Brown University (8)
7/ Guilford College (8)
7/ Haverford College (8)
7/ Sarah Lawrence College (8)
11/ Boston University (7)
12/ George Washington University (6)
12/ Smith College (6)
12/ Tufts University (6)
12/ Wesleyan University (6)
16/ Bard College (5)
16/ Bates College (5)
16/ Dickinson College (5)
16/ Elizabethtown College (5)
16/ Goucher College (5)
16/ Grinnell College (5)
16/ New York University (5)
16/ Northeastern University (5)
16/ Penn State University – University Park (5)</p>

<ol>
<li>University of California (129 students)</li>
<li>2. University of Southern California (63 students)</li>
<li>3. The Claremont Colleges (60 students)</li>
<li>4. Carnegie Mellon University (33 students)</li>
<li>5. Northwestern University (31 students)</li>
<li>6. Stanford University (27 students)</li>
<li>7. Boston University (23 students)</li>
<li>8. Harvard University (21 students)</li>
<li>9. Columbia University (18 students)</li>
<li>Cornell University (18 students)</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania (18 students)</li>
<li>Brown University (17 students)</li>
<li>Princeton University (15 students)</li>
<li>Boston College (14 students)</li>
<li>Pepperdine University (14 students)</li>
<li>University of Chicago (13 students)</li>
<li>Wellesley College (13 students)</li>
<li>New York University (12 students)</li>
<li>University of Arizona (11 students)</li>
<li>Smith College (10 students)</li>
</ol>

<p>I found this one based on a PM....</p>

<ol>
<li>Wash U 45</li>
<li>Harvard 15</li>
<li>Duke 14</li>
<li>Tufts 14</li>
<li>Penn 13</li>
<li>Columbia 11</li>
<li>Indiana 11</li>
<li>Northwestern 11</li>
<li>U Missouri (Col) 10</li>
<li>USC 10</li>
<li>Stanford 10</li>
<li>Cornell 9</li>
<li>Emory 8</li>
<li>St Louis U 8</li>
<li>U Wisc 8</li>
<li>Carleton 7</li>
<li>U Illinois 7</li>
<li>Vanderbilt 7</li>
<li>Boston U 6</li>
<li>Brown 6</li>
<li>U Colorado 6</li>
<li>Dartmouth 6</li>
<li>Miami U 6</li>
<li>U Miami 6</li>
<li>SMU 6</li>
<li>Tulane 6</li>
<li>UVa 6</li>
<li>Wake Forest 6</li>
</ol>

<p>Papa Chicken</p>

<p>Thanks for posting, very interesting.</p>

<p>Pine Crest School, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2000-2005</p>

<ol>
<li> University of Florida (167)</li>
<li> Northwestern University (32)</li>
<li> Florida State (29)</li>
<li> University of Pennsylvania (28)</li>
<li> Harvard University (23)
5- Boston University (23)</li>
<li> Emory University (23)</li>
<li> University of Michigan (19)</li>
<li> Brown University (18)</li>
<li>Duke University (18)</li>
<li>Washington University at St. Louis (18)</li>
<li> New York University (17)</li>
<li> Georgetown University (14) </li>
<li> Columbia University (14)</li>
<li> Johns Hopkins University (13)</li>
<li> Princeton University (12)</li>
<li> Boston College (11)</li>
<li> Dartmouth College (10)</li>
<li> Syracuse University (10)</li>
<li> Vanderbilt University (10)</li>
<li> Yale University (9)</li>
<li> Tufts University (9)</li>
<li>Williams College (8)</li>
<li> Cornell University (8)</li>
<li> Amherst College (7)</li>
<li> University of Chicago (6)</li>
<li> University of Southern California (6)</li>
<li> MIT (5)</li>
<li> University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (5)</li>
</ol>

<p>Very good Papa. Just one thing to note....the sizes of the graduating classes. eg. Compare Andover to St. Andrews De. Andover's student population is over 1000 while St. Andrews, De. is about 270. So have to keep those statistics in mind as well.</p>

<p>Good point mom0809....I wanted to include class size & SAT scores, but only a subset of the schools I included above reported those stats.....I'll have a look again, & if there are enough data to make it interesting, I'll try to tabulate. I agree that the number of matriculants stat is not comparable between schools without some way to normalize by the class size. The only use of the matriculant number stat now is within each school, e.g., some schools have a dominating few colleges they feed.....can't see this with a ranking alone.</p>

<p>several CA schools Pm'd to me.......</p>

<p>1/ Stanford University / 26
2/ UC Berkeley / 21
3/ Harvard University / 20
4/ UC Davis / 19
5/ UC San Diego / 17
6/ UC Los Angeles / 15
7/ Oberlin College / 13
7/ UC Santa Cruz / 13
9/ Columbia Univ. / 12
10/ Pomona College / 11
11/ Univ. of Chicago / 10
11/ Univ. of Pennsylvania / 10
11/ Yale University / 10
14/ Dartmouth College / 9
14/ Princeton Univ. / 9
16/ Washington University / 8
17/ Brown University / 7
17/ Georgetown Univ. / 7
17/ Middlebury College / 7
17/ Pitzer College / 7
17/ Univ. of Southern Cal. / 7</p>

<p>1/ UC Los Angeles 30
2/ UC Berkeley / 24
3/ New York University / 20
4/ Stanford University / 18
5/ Columbia University / 16
6/ University of Pennsylvania / 14
7/ UC Davis / 13
7/ Yale University / 13
9/ UC Santa Cruz / 12
10/ Harvard University / 11
10/ UC San Diego / 11
12/ Brown University / 9
12/ Princeton University / 9
12/ UC Santa Barbara / 9
12/ Univ. of Southern California / 9
16/ Amherst College / 8
16/ Boston University / 8
16/ Williams College / 8
19/ Bowdoin College / 7
19/ Colgate University / 7
19/ Johns Hopkins University / 7
19/ Middlebury College / 7</p>

<p>What's striking is how homogenous these lists are. </p>

<p>The corresponding data I would like to see for colleges is the percentage of students from private prep versus public schools. It would be a useful "metric" to add to the list, but I've not found any consistent reporting of those stats.</p>

<p>matriculation for c/o 2004 only:</p>

<ol>
<li>University of Southern California (19)</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania (15)</li>
<li>Columbia (13)</li>
<li>Stanford (11)</li>
<li>Michigan (11)</li>
<li>Harvard (10)</li>
<li>NYU (10)</li>
<li>UC Berkeley (9)</li>
<li>Brown (8)</li>
<li>Cornell (8)</li>
<li>Emory (8)</li>
<li>Georgetown (7)</li>
<li>Boston College (6)</li>
<li>UCLA (6)</li>
<li>Wesleyan (6)</li>
<li>Northwestern (5)</li>
<li>Tufts (5)</li>
<li>Washington University (5)</li>
<li>Yale (5)</li>
<li>Princeton (4)</li>
<li>UC Santa Barbara (4)</li>
</ol>

<p>The most interesting statistic I can see across the boards is how many students stick to colleges close to home,no matter what their acheivement level.</p>

<p>Looks like Rice is getting any (many) students from private schools!</p>

<p>Papa Chicken, I like your lists. One thing is very clear to me. People tend to go to college close to home.</p>

<p>I can't believe 3 people from Cate have gone to UCLA in the last 4 years. That number seems very low.</p>

<p>Just an observation...not one Swarthmore. I understand it's a small school, that it doesn't have a particularly preppy reputation, and that Papa listed just top 20, but given its quality I'd expect to see it somewhere.</p>

<p>dstark, I think you've hit an important nail squarely on the head. It was very evident to me in the parent meetings about college at my son's private school in CA that the vast majority of parents were unhappy or outright unwilling to have their child attend school on the east coast. I grew up in NJ and my parents gave me only two rules in the early '70s when I was looking at colleges: nothing west of the Mississippi, and not Hampshire. I thought they were all nutty, but now, having a child in college on the opposite coast, I think I can understand these concerns a little better. ;)</p>

<p>(I have the data for our school for Class of '05 and am hoping to add data for Class of '04 before posting it this coming week. Note that this school has only graduated 4 senior classes so far, and has slightly over 100 students per graduating class, so the numbers are small, but still interesting.)</p>

<p>Papa Chicken, is it worth asking the mods if you can edit the posts to include size of school? (ie Choate with 875 students vs Harvard Westlake with 1100 vs John Burroughs with 590).</p>

<p>Good research--better than Worth Magazine is able to discover!....;)</p>

<p>some of the total school sizes may be somewhat misleading if they have a 6 year program rather than 4. I think the burroughs 590 is for all six years. typical class is in the 100 range.</p>

<p>you might also see if you can get a highly selective, small catholic hs--boy, girl or coed. try cistercian in dallas. I know there must be others.</p>

<p>How about average size of the senior class? John Burroughs has an enrollment of 590 in grades 7-12. Choate has an enrollment of 875 in grades 9-12. Harvard-Westlake has an enrollment of 1550 in grades 7-12.</p>