<p>These are the top schools for HYP admissions. At three schools, 20% of the class goes to HYP. </p>
<p>Public schools don't do well. There is one at #26 but then the next public doesn't appear until #59. There are no CA schools until Havard Westlake at #34.</p>
<p>my school was between 25 and 35.</p>
<p>hahaha, i know people at a lot of these schools. home much of this do you think just has to do with legacies?</p>
<p>i think some of it is legacy and family connections. some of it is just proximity to ivy league schools, which causes a lot of people to apply. that's definitely how princeton high school made the list. and part of it is that an A average from some of these schools is very impressive to adcoms. hell, i had a friend with a 3.3 UW get accepted to georgetown EA this year, and it surely had to do with the strength of the school, because normally a 3.3 would be instant rejection.</p>
<p>yeah, thats the thing about CC, when people talk about GPAs, they can mean very different things at different schools</p>
<p>^ and from what i've seen on CC, people tend to grossly overrate the competitiveness of their schools.</p>
<p>haha, unless theyre talking about HYP, in which case GPA doesnt really matter any more</p>
<p>^ you don't think the competitiveness of your high school matters when applying to HYP? how do the vals from Boston Latin and Exeter manage to get into harvard every year, without fail, despite being otherwise unremarkable? lol</p>
<h1>18 Poly is in Pasadena, CA.</h1>
<p>choklitRain: are you from Boise but go to a school somewhere else?</p>
<p>no, competitiveness of the high school matters a lot, im just saying people on CC are freaking out cos they only have a 3.9 UW and at a certain point it doesnt matter when applying to HYP, they obviously want more than a high GPA</p>
<p>Another point to remember is that many Californians choose Stanford or Berkeley over HYP.</p>
<p>^ i agree with you there. top colleges aren't scrutinizing gpas. they're looking to see if we found a way to challenge ourselves, i think. </p>
<p>and zfox...i don't really live in idaho.</p>
<p>siliconvalleymom, i mentioned proximity to ivy leagues in a post in this thread. but i think only 2% of cross-admits choose berkeley over harvard. plenty choose stanford, though.</p>
<p>One of the schools on that list (in the 50's somewhere) is literally down the street from my high school. That school is easy to get into and they don't even offer great classes. They never have national merit scholars they just have a lot of money. Their money brings them good connections. I would never once call that school highly competitive, the charter school a few blocks away ranked highly on USNews is probably 3 to 4 times more difficult. This list just proves to me that admissions to HYP is all about the money and connections, not that this hasn't already been established, it just irks me a lot.</p>
<p>^ but if your goal is to get into a top college, the benefits of that school are clear. only 1 public school out of 27,000 in the country beats it.</p>
<p>I understand that's the way it is, it just "shouldn't be like that." I realize I can't control anything but the corrupt education system in this country is about to throw me over the edge.</p>
<p>My cousin's school is somewhere in the 90s and it seems as if all of her friends from there get into top schools. I guess it's what you would call a "feeder school."</p>
<p>Awesome! My school made the list. Too bad I didn't apply to any Ivy League schools :(</p>
<p>I keep forgetting that legacy matters, I always think it doesn't because my sister didn't get into Cornell (our mother went there) but I guess it does. </p>
<p>Now I understand why a girl left my school and went to Andover. And one girl left and went to Hotchkiss. Her poor twin sister is the loneliest twin in the world. I'm surprised Harvard-Westlake isn't higher, but I don't actually know anything about it. It's just one of the two people I know who go to Yale went there (other one went to my school).</p>
<p>Legacy matters a lot in terms of these rankings. For example: Princeton High School.</p>
<p>I know this may come as a shock, but legacy isn't everything...not even close. </p>
<p>Smart parents who are successful enough to get their kids into prep schools usually have smart kids who care about grades, etc. </p>
<p>That's just logical. Of course there are exceptions, but if you believe in DNA getting passed down, then it makes sense. </p>
<p>The prep school dynamic also relates to top schools in general-they are only good/great at getting people in/making people successful because they can pick whoever they want. Will Stuyvesant do better than a lot of public schools? Of course-because they can pick the top kids off a test. It's not because Stuy or Harvard is "magical".</p>
<p>also, above poster, a lot of professors send their kids to Princeton-most would argue that ivy league professors have generally smarter kids (or at least kids who know to work their butts off) than others. </p>
<p>Again, I want to stress-of course there are exceptions and everything else.</p>