<p>My D attends a high achieving HS in the SF Bay Area, that regularly sends a couple of kids to Stanford, ~20 each to Berkeley and UCLA, and a smattering of kids to Ivies. However, on Naviance, I noticed that in the last 3 years, we have had no accepts to Georgetown and UVA, despite ~10 applications each year. I know UVA favors in state, but I'm surprised about the Georgetown number.</p>
<p>What college does your HS seem to have a tough time with?</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford seem to be toughies for us</p>
<p>Most of the Ivies are tough for students at my school to get into. I don’t think we’ve had anyone get in at all despite really high ACT’s(34 etc for a few o them) and Some National Merit scholars. We get a lot of kids into to top 20 schools though…just not the top ten.</p>
<p>People don’t really apply to selective colleges where I live. I mean, sometimes my school sends someone to Case Western or something, but mostly people just go to local colleges.</p>
<p>I have noticed in my son’s naviance with some schools he was interested in that despite 100+ applications there have been only 1-3 or no acceptances in any range for the past several years. HYPS but also some elite LACs. On the other hand his HS has “good” relationships with some schools where there are 10-20 acceptances per year per 100 applicants, all the way up to state flagship which is like 100%.</p>
<p>Same as halcyon’s school for my school. We had one HYSPM last year (Stanford).</p>
<p>Brown seems to be extremely difficult. At least two students go to each Ivy from my school each year, except for Brown.</p>
<p>People at my school don’t really go for selective schools. In school history, none accepted to Ivies, 2 to Stanford, 1 to Uchicago (athlete)</p>
<p>In my school, I think we’ve had 2 Brown, 1 Princeton. We had a Rice last year.</p>
<p>Our school doesn’t attend selective schools…
I mean we have about 6 a year go to UNC Chap, which is great. But its also incredibly less selective for in state. Basically if you are in the top ten and play a sport you can get in. </p>
<p>Most people go to NC State, ECU, and local schools.</p>
<p>However, I want to break that boundary!</p>
<p>Yeah, we don’t send kids to selective schools.</p>
<p>In the last decade, we’ve probably had like one guy go to Notre Dame, one to Princeton, and a couple to service academies, that’s it.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone in my HS has gotten into an Ivy League school in the past few years.</p>
<p>Nobody even applies to Ivies at my high school! I only know of one girl who graduated from my high school who went to an Ivy (Yale).</p>
<p>^^^^
Same here. My school doesn’t seem to encourage high standards or expectations. It’s usually the small town schools…
Regardless, though, I’m gonna apply to MIT… even if I don’t stand much of a chance.</p>
<p>My school sends almost 10% of the graduating class to universities in the top 50. (Eg. Ivies, Stanford, NYU, UT Austin, etc.) guess that’s what happens in suburban big city high schools with 4200 students :P</p>
<p>mit loves my school for some reason…? there are at least two every year </p>
<p>i think nyu hates my school (which sucks because i love nyu :()</p>
<p>Our valedictorian last year went to Dartmouth. That was one of the only times we’ve ever had an Ivy acceptance. To be fair, though, we also had a kid go to Duke last year.</p>
<p>A couple generations ago, I heard that one girl from my high school went to a state school and then transferred to Columbia University her second year. Now it’s basically an obscure rumour that no one has any way of verifying.</p>
<p>I go to a small school (400 total). No one that applied last year got into MIT, Carnegie Mellon, RPI, or Cornell. Going for Carnegie Mellon ED!</p>
<p>My Mississippi high school has a tough time with UVA and USC.</p>
<p>According to Naviance, Georgetown isn’t too fond of us.</p>