I saw a similar thread in the college search section. Thought it was cool. Thought I’d start one here. Here are my high school’s top 20 most popular college decisions classes 2000-2004. Small private school in California.
USC 58
Stanford 47
UCLA 31
CAL 23
Colorado 22
Princeton 19
UCSB 17
Columbia 16
Harvard 15
UCSD 12
Arizona 12
Michigan 11
Boston University 11
Santa Clara 11
Duke 9
Penn 9
SMU 9
UCDavis 8
Brown 8
UCSC 8
<p>is that all the people who got in or just applied? That would be crazy if 15! kids got in harvard from your school! Only 1 in 4 years got in Harvard at mine!</p>
<p>Colleges</a> and Universities Attended by WIS Graduates 1999-2003</p>
<p>The most popular schools in the United States were as follows (the list also includes schools in Argentina, Canada, Denmark, India, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom):</p>
<p>University of Virginia (15)
University of Pennsylvania (7)
Georgetown University (6)
Oberlin College (6)
Princeton University (6)
George Washington University (5)
Amherst College (4)
Columbia University (4)
Cornell University (4)
New York University (4)
Virginia Tech University (4)
Boston University (3)
Duke University (3)
Macalester College (3)
Tufts University (3)
Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (3)
Univ. of Maryland - College Park (3)
Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (3)
Yale University (3)</p>
<p>Harvard had two attendees. Note that these are only the schools where students ended up matriculating, not the total number of acceptances.</p>
<p>I go to an international private school (~60/class) in Washington, DC.</p>
<p>Elcommando- This is where people have chosen to go. Not who got in or applied........</p>
<p>ohhh 0_o 9369gfdbbdf</p>
<p>I wonder if those who decided to go to USC also applied and were accepted to UCLA, etc.? or did they go to USC because they didn't apply or were rejected from somewhere else?</p>
<p>rand2474: how many students are in a class/grade at that private hs?</p>
<p>about 100 per class........</p>
<p>Many do tend to lean toward private schools...... so USC would be a second or third choice behind the Harvard's and Stanford's....... not the UC system......</p>
<p>what makes UVA so unique that FIFTEEN ppl attended it from ur school?</p>
<p>It looks like these lists are regionally skewed. Thisyearsgirl is from DC, and in the east/southeast, UVA is a "hot" school right now. So, UVA in Charlottesville is a relatively local school for the folks on the DC area. I am guessing that RAND is in California, as the top 4 schools on his/her list are Calif. schools.</p>
<p>jym626 -- Yes, exactly.</p>
<p>Thisyearsgirl-
I am also guessing that several of the kids in your school live in the metro DC area, including maybe Arlington, Reston, Vienna, Alexandria-- etc, and as all these cities are in VA, UVA would be in-state for them.</p>
<p>My schools top choices are:</p>
<p>-Appalachian State University
-UNC-Greensboro
-NC State
-UNC-Chapel Hill
-Duke University</p>
<p>jym626 -- Yes, that's true. </p>
<p>I was surprised that we don't have more kids at UMD, because it's the in-state school for a large number of students, but we actually have more people at Princeton.</p>