Coming from a senior class of 700+ students in a NYC (competitive) specialized HS, there is a pretty sizable amount of people each year who end up attending public institutions, such as UMich, or CUNY/SUNY colleges (Binghamton, Stony Brook, and the Macaulay partner colleges, to name a few).
A smaller number of people end up enrolling at ‘more selective’ universities, such as
MIT (3 going this year)
Harvard (2 going this year, 5 going last year)
UPenn (3 going this year)
UChicago (11 accepted this year)
Georgetown (11 accepted)
Johns Hopkins (11 accepted)
Duke (9 accepted?)
UVa
UC Berkeley (10 accepted)
Villanova
Northeastern (115)
NYU (133)
Boston College
USC
University of Maryland, College Park
George Washington University
Fairly competitive private high school in California. About 150 people per class.
UCLA/Berkeley - 15
Mid Tier UC’s - 10
Lower end UC’s - About 5
We usually have another 10 or so attending one of the more selective CSUs (Cal Poly SLO, Cal Poly Pomona, SDSU, CSULB)
Probably a little less than 10 going to various Private Schools in California (Pepperdine, Occidental, etc)
And we usually have like 6 or 7 at various private schools around the country (NYU, Swarthmore, Georgetown)
Every year we get a couple kids going to HYPSM. Last year was Stanford and Princeton, this year was Harvard and Princeton.
Everyone else usually goes to one of the other CSU’s or a smaller, out of state school. Only a small handful of kids don’t end up attending a 4 year university for whatever reason.
Mostly Liberal Art schools
State school
It’s rare to find someone going to a big school like Penn State. I think I will be the first student to go to PSU. Prospective transfer student 
Really interesting everyone! Anyone else?
My high school is one of the schools that gossip girl was based on. I know the stats have declined a little bit since I graduated 10 years ago but then it was ~45% to ivies with the next 50% going to other top 20 Us/top 5 LACs. The remaining 5% to Us ranked 20-50 or LACs ranked 6-20. Class size was ~50 people total.
Probably now it’s still 90% to top 25 Us/top 10 LACs but with fewer ivies/top5 LACs than the past.
I went to a small, very good public high school in an upper middle class suburb in MA. My graduating class had 160 students. We’re a feeder school for Umass Amherst and Northeastern (we sent 90 kids to Amherst and about 15 to NEU). Lots of LACs (Colby, Dickinson, Lafayette, etc). Students in the top ten percent will be going to:
-Umass Amherst honors college
-JHU
-U Chicago
-WPI
-Claremont McKenna
-Cornell
-Vassar
-Williams
-Rice
-Spain (that would be me; I’m doing a gap year!)
From Naviance:
University of Washington (~600 apps)
Western Washington University (~220 apps)
Washington State (~210 apps)
Central Washington University and Seattle U
Stanford actually has more apps than Seattle U or CWU but the difference in acceptance rates means only a few kids got in.
If you look at Naviance for all four high schools in my area, the top three are all the same as far as students choose–UW Seattle, WWU, and WSU. On average, UW gets academically higher-achieving students than WWU which gets better students than WSU. Remarkably, the Evergreen State College only got 13 applicants which is weird as it’s a public LAC.
I go to a DODDS school in Japan, and that’s basically a public school for children whose parents are stationed overseas in the military. Our school is probably the least reputable one out of all DODDS schools, but since we have kids attending our school from all around the nation, they end up in different places.
About a quarter of last years graduating class went to California, most went to state universities like SDSU, one went to Pepperdine. Another quarter went to Washington, all went to WSU.
The most notable schools my school sends students to is the military academies. Last year we sent one to West Point and one to the Air Force Academy.
All of the other students that graduated last year are spread out in different colleges around the US, none of the colleges being very notable.
Small pseudo-university-affliated private in the South (organized by numbers; Class size ~90)
Vanderbilt (6)
Tufts (4)
UChicago (4)
Harvard (3)
Claremont McKenna (2)
Rice (2)
Pomona (2)
Case Western (2)
WUSTL (2)
Other notables:
Princeton (1)
Oxford (1)
Yale (1)
UNC-Chapel Hill (Morehead) (1)
Some of these are really impressive haha
I go to a public high school in NJ. Most apply to Rutgers NB, Penn State, Cornell, NYU, Columbia. In fact, around 1/4 of the students from each grade regularly apply to Columbia (except for last year). I cant really find which schools most students end up attending, but I know for sure that Rutgers NB is the most.
Public, competitive hs in WA. Each class is about 450+. We get the usual UW, WSU, WWU, etc. Quite a few go to a local cc.
Where our top 5% go to besides UW:
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Cornell, NYU, Berkeley, UCSD, Brown, USC, Rice, Purdue, Duke, Carnegie Mellon
I go to a top public high school in Canada. There are about 300 graduating seniors every year. Obviously most students attend canadian universities, such as U of T, Mcgill, UBC and University of Waterloo. There are usually 1-5 students who get into US Colleges, for example, a student will be at UC Berkeley in september. Another is going to Cambridge (U.K.).
My kids go to a top public high school in AZ. 600 graduating seniors. Most go to ASU, U of A, NAU or community college. Lots of top kids go to the in state honors colleges, Barrett and U of A. Other results from the most recent class: Harvard (1), Princeton (1), Stanford (1), Duke (1), UPenn (1), Cornell (1), MIT (1), West Point (2), Pomona (1), Carleton (1), Rice (1), UCBerkeley (1), USC (5), WUSTL (1), Georgia Tech (1), Emory (1), UT Austin (1), Geo.Washington (1), Purdue (2), Tulane (1), Colo School of Mines (1), Oberlin (1), Tufts (2). That’s where kids actually went. Some kids had mutltiple admissions and a few kids got in top schools they couldn’t afford.
Suburban Chicago Public School. These are the universities that got five or more students last year. Each year about a dozen or so kids go to Ivy League/MIT/Stanford and about 20 or so end up at high end LAC’s.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 60
Indiana University at Bloomington 37
The University of Iowa 19
DePaul University 16
Miami University, Oxford 16
University of Illinois at Chicago 15
University of Missouri Columbia 15
Loyola University Chicago 14
Northwestern University 12
University of Michigan 11
University of Wisconsin, Madison 11
University of Colorado at Boulder 10
The University of Alabama 10
Purdue University 9
Michigan State University 9
Illinois State University 8
Marquette University 8
Texas Christian University 7
University of Notre Dame 7
Iowa State University 6
Saint Louis University 6
University of Kansas 6
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 6
Northern Illinois University 6
DePauw University 5
University of Kentucky 5
Vanderbilt University 5
University of Chicago 5
Benedictine University 5
Columbia College Chicago 5
Washington University in St. Louis 5
Suburban Chicago High School. Graduating 520 students. A sampling here:
Northwestern (7)
UChicago (3)
Wash U (1)
JHU (1)
Cornell (1)
Princeton (1)
Vanderbilt (1)
Duke (1)
UIUC (lots)
Carleton (2)
Bucknell (1)
Notre Dame (1)
NYU (2)
Juilliard (1)
Michigan (3)
Wisconsin (4)
William and Mary (1)
Georgetown (1)
Carnegie Mellon (1)
Pitt (1)
Mizzou (3)
Past three years, one each to Brown, Harvard, Stanford
Top public school in North Carolina
in order of most often applied too
UNCCH
2 Penn (i have no idea why??)
3 UNC Wilmington
4 NC State
5 Duke
6 App State
7 ECU
8 UNC Charlotte
9 Wake Forrest
10 Elon
11 U South Carolina
12 College of Charleston
Top Public school in California(Bay Area)
about 500 seniors a year
UC Berkeley: 44
UCLA: 20
UCSD: 19
UCSC: 28
UC Irvine: 6
UC Davis: 12
Stanford: 2
USC(Socal): 9
University of Washington: 12
UIUC: 13
Cal Tech: 1
UPenn: 5
Carnegie Mellon: 10
WashU St Louis: 3
All Ivies: 1 or 2 for each