So it seems like a lot of schools fall into patterns of where kids apply to and where they end up getting accepted to. So I was wondering, where does your high school or your kid’s high school send a lot of its students? Anything notable? Also if you could mention what kind of high school it is that’d be great.
As for my high school, it was a fairly small public school. Not very competitive. Most students from our school end up attending Washington State University, Eastern Washington University, or maybe some nearby community colleges. Every year we usually send a couple of students over to the University of Washington in Seattle. This year we had one girl get into NYU, although she didn’t attend.
Sooo, yeah, please and thank you 
I went to a private high school (graduated this year). Mostly, we get kids going to:
Cornell
Brown
(one time) Princeton
St. Joseph’s
St. Francis College
Macaulay Honors in various places
Boston University
Manhattan College
I graduated from a mid-sized, competitive NJ public HS last month. My graduating class had 450 kids, so there was a very wide range of college choices. Notables were:
Penn State
University of Maryland
University of Pittsburgh
University of Delaware
Every Ivy excluding Yale and Brown
Johns Hopkins
Emory
Tulane
McGill
University of Toronto
Lehigh
Elon
University of Texas, Austin
BC
BU
UC Berkeley
UCLA
Tufts
UMass
And, of course, Rutgers. Just to name a few.
I’m the only one going to UNC Wilmington, though.
Binghamton, Stony Brook, Albany, Buffalo, St Johns, Hofstra, the other SUNYS. Usually 1-4 kids get into ivies (usually Cornell or Columbia) One kid usually goes to a UC (UCLA or Berkley) and one or two goes to Boston College
I went to a small public high school in central New York (next to Cornell). My school has an incredibly weak guidance office. I found the counselors to be very uninformed and their main goal was to get kids to graduate high school, not get them into college. Mainly they promoted the local community college, where the vast majority of graduates went. Aside from that, they promoted a very select few 4-year schools, mainly SUNYs and small privates. I was told by the principal I was better off going to community college than trying to apply for any Ivy League colleges.
Of my graduating class, 25% of us went on to 4-year colleges. These colleges are the ones that most of our graduates end up going to every year. The ones I can think of off the top of my head:
SUNY Binghamton
SUNY Geneseo
RIT
Penn State
SUNY Buffalo
Ithaca College
Alfred University
Those tend to be the favorites. From my class, one person is at RPI, one is at Syracuse, and one is at Colgate.
Most students don’t apply to any reach schools, but if they do, it’s typically just Cornell. Despite our close proximity to Cornell (and the fact that some students are legacies/children of faculty members) Cornell still accepts very few, if any, students from my school every year. From my year, myself and two other girls got in (all of us attend).
I go to a big public school in California and according to Naviance the most popular colleges to go to are:
-Local Community College
- CSU San Marcos
- San Diego State
-UCSD
-UCLA - Other local community college
-UCI
-UCR
-CSUF
-UCSB
But students from my school go to colleges all over the country. Since there are so many of us, some kids do end up at HYPSM type schools every year.
I go to a catholic all girls high school in the Midwest, the most common schools we send girls to are probably:
Ohio State
Miami (Ohio)
University of Cincinnati
Notre Dame
University of Dayton
But in the last couple of years we have also sent girls to Northwestern, Boston College, Georgetown, Harvard, Princeton, NYU, Stanford, UPenn, and other top schools!
I go to a private school in PA, and about 60-75% of each class goes to Penn State, Pitt, or sometimes Millersville or Slipery Rock because of cost. However the valedictorians and salutatorians usually go to Notre Dame, Cornell, or even Yale. And a lot of kids end up at colleges in NC. No specifically consistent ones, but a lot seem to gravitate to NC because of the weather and beach I think. But seriously, at pretty much every PA highschool, all the kids go to Penn State (satellite or main) or Pitt.nor Temple if they want to be in Philly.
Really interesting guys, thanks for the responses so far!
Why does it matter to you? It is far more important where students from your HS go. Some HS are feeders for certain colleges/universities, but it serves no purpose for you if you are not from that school.
@billcsho It’s really just interesting to me to see how different other people’s high schools are.
Large Texas public school
UTSA
Texas State
Texas Tech
Blinn
SAC
TAMUCC
Texas A&M
Texas
Urban public school in VA. Over 1/2 the population is minority students. Top 10 get into UVA, next 10 get into VA Tech, next 30 or so go to other instate publics including the local college. Bottom 1/2 of the class is just happy to be graduating. Occasionally a student in the top 10 goes to an Ivy, Duke or UNC. Quite a few students join the military.
S attends a Catholic high school in NC. Given the cost and strength of the state university system, most students aspire to attend public universities. UNC used to be the holy grail, but now that all the top students want to study engineering, it’s NC State. Lots go to Appalachian, and prospective engineers who don’t get into State go to UNC-Charlotte. Some go to South Carolina public universities if they earn tuition reciprocity. And there’s a growing trend of students starting at community college, as NC has a clear articulation agreement and guaranteed transfer with certain GPAs (not guaranteed school of your choice, but guaranteed).
I go to a small, rural public school in central new york. I’d say about 1/4 of the students usually go straight into employment but other students attend
SUNY Broome (community college)
SUNY Binghamton
SUNY Geneseo
SUNY New Paltz
Syracuse
Alfred University
University of Rochester
and always at least one Cornell
Midsize public in western PA
Top three are probably, in no particular order:
- local CC
- Penn State (including branches)
- Pitt (including branches)
Another big one is probably Dusquesne. One student went to an Ivy from my year. Val went to Pomona. We have a decent track record with the PSU honors college, though (three my year). 
Very small Public school in South Texas
Each class usually consists of students going to:
Local LAC
Local Community College
Texas Tech
Texas AM CC
University of North Texas
UTSA
Texas State
Texas AM
UT Austin
Classes are very small (usually 60 to 80 students) and only about half go to college. Top 5 usually go to Texas A&M/UT Austin, remaining 5 of the top ten usually go to A/M or UTSA or Tech. Remaining 15 of the top 25 go to UNT, Texas State, and local LAC. Remaining few go to Local CC or go go out of state, only a very few go out of state for college. Rarely do we ever send students to elite schools, however 2 years ago, three students were accepted to Rice and 5 years ago the Val. got an athletic scholarship to UC Berkley. Only 1 student in the history of the school has gone to an Ivy League school, which was Harvard.
I go to a competitive top-ranked public high school in northern Georgia. Every counselor stresses UGA since the majority of the school’s faculty graduated from there, but they also send students to GA Tech and Berry College. A surprisingly low amount go to Emory or out of state schools, I feel like a lot of students are being discouraged from better schools.
Vanderbilt. Like 20-30 people of our 200 member class is going there. A lot of people who aren’t going to Vanderbilt are going to top 20 universities though.
My eldest was in a duel enrollment high school that graduates 40 students a year. The vast majority head into the California state systems (CSU or UC’s.) They get the most bang for their buck as many will enter with most of their general eds completed. There are always a couple that head for an arts conservatory. There are always a couple (my D included) that head for private LAC’s like Sarah Lawrence, Bowdoin, U Richmond, Grinell.
My youngest attends a project based tech charter. Despite the absence of AP’s and an honors program, they send a good portion of graduates to Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Harvard, and John Hopkins every year. The majority still head to CSU’s and UC’s like most high schools.