- UVA
- Virginia Tech
- JMU
- UT Austin
- Texas A&M
- Texas Tech pretty much tied with Baylor
State uni–UConn
Strangely enough, in the past 5 years more students have gone to Harvard than any other school from my school, with Columbia as a relatively distant second.
When I graduated high school decades ago, the most common college destination was the nearby community college.
Penn State, URI and Delaware. I guess students from Jersey really don’t want to go to Rutgers, LOL!
At my S’s HS, the year he graduated, I’m pretty sure USCal was the most popular with about 35 students out of his class of 200. The U of HI was a close 2nd. I have no idea which U was 3rd.
UMD, community college, with 2-4 seniors going to second-tier Ivies.
Last year, someone was accepted to UPenn and this year someone was accepted to Cornell.
Same as @ucbalumnus . I am from California, there was no stigma like there is today.
At my kids’ high school, SUNY Binghamton is very popular, along with other SUNY schools.
Good question; there was a map with icons where each kid was going. Out of a little over 100 kids, 9 are UCB, 8 USC, 6 Michigan. That’s a huge number for each from such a small graduating class!
^^ Others that have more than two kids next year are Duke, NYU, Northwestern and Northeastern.
University of Washington, Stanford.
Of course most people go to the other state schools or the CD. A lot go to UW, a couple to Stanford (at least a couple got accepted this year).
Basically every SUNY school and some private colleges in central NY.
wow! @pupscotch what is your average class size? Is it a public or private? I can’t imagine a high school that sends most of their student to Harvard!
Our very well regarded public school class size of 600+ usually only sends one or two kids to Harvard each year.
This year we have:
7 going to Rice
1 to Brown
1 to GW
1 to the Naval Academy
1 to WestPoint
3 to Stanford
5 to Vassar
2 to Cornell
6 to Cal Tech
3 to Berklee
5 to Oberlin
2 to MIT
2 to Carnegie Mellon University
1 to Juilliard
2 to North Western
3 to Cornell
1 to Princeton
1 to Johns Hopkins
2 to Vanderbilt
I’m looking at the banner posted by the GC’s where the kids sign by the logo of the school they are attending and I can’t make out/recognize all of the logos, I was surprised by the number of UC’s listed with OOS tuition.
I’m in awe of a school that sends “more of their students to Harvard than any other school” We’ve generally have more kid accepted to Harvard than accept attend because of financial reasons. Our school is in an upper/upper middle class neighborhood and many families here can not afford the expense of Harvard.
- St. Petersburg College
- University of South Florida
SUNY’s, including the local CC, are the most popular in my suburban NYC HS. I hear that 20 something will be attending Binghamton and I know of kids who are attending Albany, Fredonia, Stony Brook, Oneonta and ESF. Our list isn’t published yet.
I have also heard of one to Dartmouth, 2 to Northwestern, and kids going to RIT, USC, Penn State, Hofstra, Wesleyan, Sarah Lawrence, Temple, Tisch, Drexel, Fairfield. Our list isn’t out yet so I am going by what S17 and my friends have told me, plus what I remember from the photo the school sent around on college day.
Hey! I have an AA and AS from Saint Pete when it was a JC! Funny thing, that was way before internet and email (yes I am as old as dirt, floppy disks were actually floppy and really big!) but after DD16 filled out the common app that required listing all the schools I attended I started get alumni donation requests from St. Petersburg College, go figure!
I’d say UNCC because it’s nearby and ppl can live off campus
Almost all of the smarter kids went to Auburn this year (more expensive, but whatevs), while comparitively few went to Alabama (1 student stood up on honors night for merit aid for UA). This seems to flip every year; last year, Alabama was the big funnel and everybody who had the grades needed to go there. Interesting school.
RE my previous post: I meant CC not CD lol autocorrect.