Massachusetts:
- University of Massachusetts
- Boston University
- University of Vermont
- University of New Hampshire
- Northeastern University
NYC (performing arts hs)
all the privates and CUNYs in NYC. NYU is very popular
Syracuse
Ithaca
U of Michigan
Berklee School of Music
RISD
all the SUNY’s especially Binghamton and Purchase (hugely popular)
Carnegie Mellon
Oberlin
Vassar
Bard
Tulane
Cornell
McGill
They go everywhere including all the Ivies, but I pulled these from Naviance as they seem to be popular choices (acceptance history)
A ton go to University of Oklahoma which is weird because we are a Texas school
UMCP, Towson, UMBC, Salisbury, community college, Penn State, NC State
out of 278 graduates, ~100 do not attend college, ~150 pursue two years of community college for free then transfer to a state school (if they want, most don’t), and the rest attend state universities. i know of only three classmates who applied out of state. one attends sdsu, one attends the air force academy in colorado, and the other (me) took a gap year to apply to college this year, lol.
(disclaimer: i live in a rural area/state and attended a significantly underfunded school whose counselors don’t offer any insight into the college application process, lol.)
My school doesn’t list the exact schools our senior classes get in (they only show the top ones), but I know UPenn is very popular. This year 13 students applied there (out of around 60 students).
Son’s high school (a top rated school in California/Silicon Valley). 20 going to Ivy, 3 CalTech, 3 WashU, 2 each to Northwestern, Rice and Stanford. 1 student each to UChicago and Duke. The completion to get into the best schools is crazy at times.
Most popular schools:
UIUC (a really surprising one) 19
Cal Poly 16
UC Berkeley 15
Carnegie Mellon 12
Cornell 12
NYU 11
UDub, USC, and U of A each with 9
Cornell and Purdue each with 8
I wonder if this is a result of students with good standardized scores/high GPA not getting into their first choice. And this is not one of the Silicon Valley high schools where the demographics are lopsided towards Asians-the demographics are relatively balanced at roughly half Asian/half Caucasian so not Lynbrook/Mission San Jose/Monta Vista. Think Gunn/Palo Alto/Saratoga.
Re: #87
Looks like a high school with a lot of parental money, considering the presence of out-of-state publics and NYU in the most popular list.
However, shouldn’t your list also include the local community colleges and a nearby CSU, based on numbers matriculating?
- USC
- UC Berkeley
- Texas Christian University
Rutgers, Penn State, CCM (county college), TCNJ
UDel and UConn get more popular every year it seems!
Illinois:
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign 40-50 (around 8ish going there for engineering or comp sci)
Northwestern University 3ish
10-20 for the rest:
Loyola University
University in Chicago (not to be confused with University of Chicago)
DePaul University
College of Lake County (community college)
Other nearby community colleges
New York metro area high school: Most popular (based on Naviance showing the most number of high school students from senior class attending):
- local Community College–people often forget that most students go to community college due to finances and need to improve academic performance before going to a 4 year college.
- SUNY Binghamton
- SUNY Buffalo
- SUNY Oneonta
- Ohio State (our SUNY Midwest flagship lol) its interesting but understandable since we have a lot of strong academic students get in with large merit aid , making the cost comparable to a SUNY.
NJ public school with mediocre academics. 70% of people end up going to our local county college.
- Our local community college
- Rowan University
- Rutgers - New Brunswick
- Stockton University
- Rutgers - Camden
Most kids from our school go locally in the NJ/PA area.
An average NJ public high school. A few get into the Ivies and other highly ranked schools each year.
1- Community College
2- U of Delaware
3- Virginia Tech
4- U of West Viriginia
WI public school with ~500 kids/graduating class
- UW-Madison
- UMN-Twin Cities
- Local tech college, sometimes transferring to UW after 2 years
Other UW campuses are fairly popular for kids whose stats aren’t quite Madison-tier. Northwestern and UChicago are pretty popular public schools. We usually have a smattering of Ivies:
'16 - 2 Yale, 1 Penn, 1 Brown, 1 Cornell
'17 - 1 Penn, 1 Cornell (+ 1 MIT)
'18 - 1 Penn, 1 Columbia (so far)
I associate my class ('17) with being overachievers compared to '16 and '18, but it was an unusually painful year for rejections. ED rejections from Yale, Brown, and Princeton, nobody got into Northwestern. Did send 3 kids to UChicago though.
Umm… UChicago and Northwestern are not public schools.
Small prep school in California.
The top students go to the usual suspects: Ivies, Stanford, UChicago, Amherst, Williams, Pomona, Johns Hopkins, etc.
The largest sheer number of kids, mostly from the middle of the class, go to NYU. Second is Oberlin. Other popular choices are Tulane, Wesleyan, Barnard, Boston U, Northeastern, Reed, USC, UOregon, Pitzer, Sartah Lawrence, and the UCs.
It’s pretty much all Northeast or West Coast. Virtually no one goes to schools in the South, and the only schools in the Midwest that get people are UChicago, Northwestern, Carleton, Oberlin, Wash U. and Michigan.
SUNY schools (Binghamton and Geneseo), Syracuse, Le Moyne,Cornell and RIT. Live in Upstate NY, very competitive high school.
In Honolulu, the two most well-known prep schools publish the college enrollment of their grads on their websites.
1 for both is Hawai'i
2 for both is Seattle U
3 for one is Chapman, #3 for the other is Portland
4 for both is Santa Clara
5 for both is USC
- UF
- UCF