UChicago is Tops at Top Prep Schools

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This topic shows a normalized analysis with respect to Groton graduates and college matriculation:

Groton-like Colleges

Colleges Listed by Concentration of Groton Graduates (2014-2018, 5 or more matriculants) Scripps Bowdoin Hamilton Georgetown Williams Chicago Harvard Middlebury Dartmouth Brown Trinity Princeton Yale Tufts Columbia St. Andrews W&M BC Duke UVa Northeastern NYU UNC--CH Comments The ordering goes beyond raw matriculation statistics to determine the colleges at which Groton graduates are represented in greatest concentration. Groton was chosen as an example of private boarding institutions for attributes related to its own highly selective admission criteria (https://amp.businessinsider.com/most-selective-boarding-schools-in-america-2016-2) as well as for the accessibility of its matriculation data. NESCACs comprise half of the top eight colleges. Ivies comprise six of the top fifteen colleges. Colleges in geographical proximity to Groton, notably Harvard, Tufts, BC and Northeastern, appear in disproportion to more distant colleges. Three public universities serve as popular destinat…

Note that the CC redesign has affected some of the formatting aspects of the topic, and that some links may no longer be supported. In summary, colleges appeared as follows in the more recent version:

1. Scripps
2. Hamilton
3. Bowdoin
4. UChicago
5. Georgetown
6. Harvard
7. Dartmouth
8. Brown
9. Williams
10. Middlebury
11. Trinity
12. Princeton
13. Yale
14. Tufts
15. Columbia
16. Northwestern
17. MIT
18. St. Andrews
19. Boston College
20. Duke
21. Stanford
22. NYU
23. UNC–CH
24. U.Va.
25. Cornell