What defines a top/competitive school?

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<p>I've heard people say that "competitive" means that 20 % of more of your school gets into ivy leagues..?
And also by "top", would that be ranked by newsweek, or what..?</p>

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<p>Top/competitive schools usually do send some students each year to the Ivy-League/-esque schools. 20% or more is ridiculous; there are only three such schools in the entire US (read: World) who can claim that (these are all private, highly selective NE schools - Roxbury, Brearley, and Collegiate).</p>

<p>Without a doubt, those schools and those ranked by Newsweek, etc., are top schools. However, it all depends on who's talking and about what. The school I go to is definitely a competitive school from my standpoint and from the staff's standpoint. Nationally, we definitely don't rank, but just this past year (the most difficult admissions year so far) there was one who was accepted Yale/Harvard, one Harvard waitlist, and five admits to John Hopkins.</p>

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20% or more is ridiculous; there are only three such schools

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Support/link? I find it hard to believe that there are only 3 schools in the entire world who sends 20%+ to ivy leagues. </p>

<p>But of course, to the OP: the 20%+ is in no way the only factor that accounts for how competitive a high school is.</p>

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<p>Since googling is too difficult: <a href="http://www.auap.com/prepschoolclass.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.auap.com/prepschoolclass.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>On a side note, it's interesting how Brearley is an all-girls' school and Roxbury and all boys' school.</p>

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<p>Well, that's only HYP.</p>

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<p>True. But do you seriously believe that Thomas Jefferson is able to send 20%+ to the entire Ivy League?</p>

<p>Stats on the individual school sites also show that oftentimes more people go to HYP than the other Ivies, with the exception of UPenn and Darmouth.</p>

<p>I wrote a paper on this a while ago, but feel free to fact check me if you have no life.</p>

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<p>Isn't it actually easier to have 20%+ of students go to an ivy league rather than 20%+ going to HYP...?</p>

<p>So there are more schools than that. But thanks for the link.</p>

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<p>The average/median income of graduates 20 years after they have left the school.</p>

<p>(I'm joking ... )</p>

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<p>My high school sends ~7% to Ivies. I'd say that's competitive, although someone here will probably say it's not.</p>

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<p>there are definitely more than 3...I know of a few in Korea</p>

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<p>Depends on the size of the school...</p>

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The average/median income of graduates 20 years after they have left the school.

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<p>Hey, sounds like the alumni giving measure... ;)</p>

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Yeah, I mean, 20% of a 40-person class from some tiny prep school doesn't really say a lot...</p>

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<p>^Poseur: it does say something if it is done every year..</p>

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<p>bump please!</p>

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<p>What kind of an answer are you looking for?</p>

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<p>Probably some sort of formula, preferably with factorials, infinite series, eigenvectors, matrices, multiple integrals that describe shear and stress load (of coursework), modular arithmetic, elliptic curves and Riemannian manifolds thrown in.</p>