I go to a very competitive, open-enrollment school in the Northeast. A bunch of kids go to MIT and Cornell, a few go to UCLA and UC Berkley and Ivies, 4-5 kids go to Harvard, and a lot go to UChicago, WUSTL, and Rice. Naturally a lot of kids also go to the state flagship.
Small public arts high school in Maryland.
As expected, a lot of people go to our flagship, and also University of Maryland Baltimore County. A common community college is CCBC Essex because of the strong arts programs. The people who want music performance tend to gravitate towards Peabody or Oberlin. Visual arts people tend towards MICA or Parsons, actors towards Pace, Sarah Lawrence, or Emerson. Dancers are currently into USC and Dominican. For more academically oriented folks, there are a couple people who go to Ivies and top tier LACs every year (Yale, Brown, Williams this past year), along with Johns Hopkins very frequently.
Rural low-income public school in PA, so we get like one Ivy/top-20 every two years or so, maybe one mid-level kid (Usually Lehigh, Bucknell, etc) per year, then pretty much everyone goes to CC, ESU, Temple, Bloomsburg, and PSU, mostly branches.
My school is slightly more competitive so mostly UC’s (A lot of Berkeley and San Diego) , maybe 15 Ivy acceptances a year (but mostly to ‘lower’ Ivies like Cornell, 1-2 max to HYPSM)
Around 1000 people in a typical class.
Usually 25 people accepted to lower ivy like Cornell
10 people accepted to mid tier ivy schools like Upenn
usually 0 or 1 person gets into the higher tier ivies like harvard and princeton (i find this really weird)
40 people accepted to schools in the top 30 like 20 people got into CMU
100 accepted to schools in the top 40 range like NYU or Georgia Tech
125 accepted to schools in the top 50 range like Northeastern or BU
500 get accepted at the state flagship but around 200 go
pretty much it
Public High school, 2500 kids, Tampa, Florida suburb
Common:
-UCF
-USF
-FSU
Somewhat common:
-UF
Notables Last 4 years:
-2 to Harvard
-1 to Columbia
-1 to Duke
-2 to West Point
-1 to Berkeley
-1 to Rice
-1 acceptance to Notre Dame (chose Harvard)
-1 Harvard kid (not the ND-Harvard kid) was accepted to Duke, Vanderbilt, UPenn, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Stanford
I attended an extremely competitive private school in the deep south.
This year’s class had a few go to the state universities (many honors college kids), but also:
Harvard
Yale
UPenn
Grinnell
Augustana
Loyola
Lehigh
University of Alabama, Honors only
OSU
Vanderbilt
University of Florida
Middlebury
USC
UCSB
UCLA
Pepperdine, etc.
Always varies widely class to class, always some ivy in each class, always some state school.
Midsize public in Northern Indiana
IU
IU
IU (so many IU people!!)
Purdue
local small college, but not CC small(trine/bethel)
Other state universities
and 1 to georgia tech and one to notre dame
Large competitive public in CA avg class size is 580-600
Most common (>50 per class):
All 9 UCs (slightly less for Riverside and Merced, usually most of our kids get filtered into one of the top 6 UCs)
UIUC
University of Washington
SJSU
SCU
Slightly less (20-50 per class):
CMU
UT Austin
Cal Poly SLO
NYU
Very Rare (>~10 per class, most of these people end up that get admitted end up going):
Harvard
Yale
John Hopkins
Wash U
MIT
Caltech
Stanford
Princeton
Columbia
Vanderbilt
Cornell
UChicago
Exceedingly Rare (>~10 students over a span of a few years):
Dartmouth (they just don’t like us)
Brown
I go to a small high school in NC that only about 10%-20% of the school population (400 students) go to a 4 year college.
Most Common (about 40/400 a year)
-Community College
Common (30/400 a year)
-UNC Pembroke
-University of Mount Olive
-East Carolina University
-Methodist University
Less Common (15/400 a year)
-UNC Greensboro
-Western Carolina
-App State
-UNC Charlotte
-Barton
-Liberty University
-Cambell
Rare (10-15/400 a year)
-Appalachian State
-UNC Wilmington
-NC State
Very Rare (5/400 per every 10 years)
-UNC Chapel Hill
-Duke
-Wake Forest
I think we may have had some people go to ivy league schools in the past but it’s a very small number over the span of 60 years.
Average public in TX - average class size is 400-550
Texas Tech - HUGE number
Local junior college - Basically the other biggest majority
UT Austin - usually just the top few kids, never that many in a year
Texas A&M - just a handful
Baylor - handful
A bunch of tiny schools scattered throughout TX, NM
Brigham Young
We rarely if ever ever send kids to Ivies/top-tier. The entire time I’ve been in high school we’ve sent (I think?) one kid to Dartmouth, but that may be just a rumor. My freshman year we had one girl go to Rice, but not since then. That’s the most elite school anyone has gotten into during my high school career.
Midsize public magnet school in Florida (it is the best school in the panhandle of Florida). In order from most students: Florida State, Univ. of West Florida, UF, South Alabama, UCF, Miami FL, and Mississippi State. With the lack of prestigious universities in the Deep South, almost all choose the in state route. As far as I know, the school has never sent any to Ivies, Duke, or the private schools on the level of Duke. I’m hoping to be the first!!!
Very small private school in Manhattan (I cannot give any more info otherwise you would find the school)
60% Ivy + Duke and Stanford rate
only 5 students did not make top 30.
Son attends a small Michigan private prep school (65/class). 100% go to college. Not surprisingly, most admissions are close to home. Listed in order of popularity - where they actually attended - not admissions. Yield in ()
50%
Umich - (Yield -60%)
3-10%
MSU (20%)
Kalamazoo College (15%)
EMU (56%)
Denison (37%)
College of Wooster (28%)
1-2%
Johns Hopkins (50%)
Yale (75%)
Washington U/St Louis (35%)
Cornell (44%)
NYU (33%)
U Vermont (19%)
Hope College (24%)
Case Western (18%)
Albion (24%)
Miami of Ohio (21%)
Wesleyan University (45%)
WCC (N/A open admissions)
Wayne State (29%)
Williams (63%)
Kenyan (28%)
Western Michigan (31%)
Stanford (66%)
UC Berkeley (50%)
U of St Andrews (Scotland) (100%)
<1%
Butler (27%)
Columbia (50%)
Bryn Mawr (100%)
Barnard (50%)
GWU (33%)
Emory (30%)
GVSU (29%)
Harvard (75%)
Boston U (15%)
Dartmouth (57%)
Penn (60%)
Purdue (12%)
Northwestern (25%)
Wellesley (33%)
Pomona (50%)
Depaul (15%)
Brown (43%)
Vanderbilt (66%)
U Chicago (22%)
U Colorado - Boulder (10%)
Harvey Mudd (66%)
Georgetown (100%)
Howard (50%)
Caltech (50%)
Princeton (50%)
Conclusions are that price is a very significant factor, the colleges with the best FA or high quality/low cost (e.g. Michigan) have the highest yields. Some schools have very low yields in relation to their rankings - U Chicago, Northwestern, Washington U /St Louis which I attribute to poor FA. Some like MSU and Purdue are safeties. The most desirable schools are the upper ranked Ivy’s, Stanford , low costs (St Andrews), and UMich (in state for us). LAC’s are mostly lower yields.
Not from where I’m standing. The LACs typically bracketed together as “national” liberal arts colleges seem to range in yield (in terms of enrollees from your h/s) from 45% (Wesleyan) to 63% at Williams. Only Barnard College had a 100% yield, so I’m thinking they’re an outlier of some sort.
^Its pretty clear that the comment you took offense to was just a school specific comment.
Not offended. Just not clear what the comment was referring to?
@circuitrider I think that the comment made it pretty clear that the yield rates for LACs were specific to his/her school. The comment never said that those numbers applied to anything beyond one specific school in Michigan.
I understand that and I think I even repeated that in my comment (see, the parentheses in post#35.) I was just wondering why she thought a 50% yield FOR STUDENTS FROM HER HIGH SCHOOL was considered low?
Decent public school in Northern California but nothing close to top LA schools, around 200 people per class
Stanford- Only twice
Ivies- Never has happened (hoping to be the first)
MIT- One or two every few years
UCLA- top 5% of our school (rank wise) get in every year
UC Berkeley- One or two every few years
Harvey Mudd College (top lib arts engineering college)- Once
UC San Diego- 25% per year
UC Santa Barbara- 25% per year (these percentages do overlap btw, the bottom 25% aren’t getting into UCSD)
State Schools- most people
U of Montana- Pretty sure nobody has ever gotten rejected