<p>At my high school (a public, non-application, single town school), it seems that if you are in the top 50% of the school, you are guaranteed acceptance to a US News Top 50 LAC or National University. I do not see why my school seems to be special in this case. Any reasons why? It just seems really easy compared to other schools to get into a good school. Listed below are where the people in my class are planning to go to college next year and the number of people going to each school:</p>
<p>American University 2
Assumption College 3
Bard College 1
Bentley University 3
Berklee College Of Music 1
Boston College 4
Boston University 6
Brandeis University 1
Brigham Young University 4
Brown University 6
Bryant University 2
University Of California Berkeley 1
University Of California Santa Barbara 1
Carleton College 1
Carnegie Mellon University 1
Clark University 3
Clemson University 1
Colby College 1
Colby-Sawyer College 1
Colgate University 1
University Of Colorado Boulder 1
Colorado College 2
Connecticut College 2
Cornell University 3
Duke University 2
Emerson College 1
Emmanuel College 2
Fitchburg State College 1
Framingham State College 2
Gettysburg College 1
Hampshire College 3
Harvard University 3
Haverford College 2
Hobart And William Smith Colleges 1
Hofstra University 1
Johns Hopkins University 2
Kansas State University 1
Kenyon College 1
Lasell College 1
Lesley University 1
University Of Maryland College Park 2
Massachusetts Bay Community College 1
Massachusetts College Of Pharmacy And Health Sciences 2
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology 3
University Of Massachusetts Amherst 11
University Of Massachusetts Boston 1
University Of Massachusetts Dartmouth 2
University Of Massachusetts Lowell 2
McGill University 4
Merrimack College 1
University Of Michigan 2
Mount Ida College 1
Muhlenberg College 1
University Of New Hampshire 2
New York University 2
University Of North Carolina Asheville 1
Northeastern University 1
Oberlin College 1
Ohio Wesleyan University 1
Pace University 1
University Of Pennsylvania 1
Providence College 2
Queens University 1
University Of Redlands 1
Rhode Island School Of Design 1
Rochester Institute Of Technology 1
University Of Rochester 3
Rockhurst University 1
Roger Williams University 1
Salve Regina University 1
Savannah College Of Art & Design 2
Simmons College 1
Skidmore College 3
University Of South Carolina 1
Southern Vermont College 1
Stonehill College 3
Suffolk University 3
Syracuse University 2
University Of Tampa 1
Temple University 1
University Of Toronto 1
Trinity College 1
Tufts University 4
Tulane University 1
University Of Vermont 2
Villanova University 1
Washington University In St. Louis 1
Wellesley College 1
Wesleyan University 1
Westfield State College 2
Wheaton College 2
Wheelock College 3
Worcester State College 1</p>
<p>Judging by the list of colleges i am assuming you go to Belmost High school lol most likely suburban area. This is common for your demographic location. It is impressive to have 3 students go to MIT from a public school though.</p>
<p>6 people to Brown? wow. at my school I think 10 people might’ve applied and only one got in (and one got waitlisted, me :()</p>
<p>and yeah, it’s just because you’re from the Boston suburbs. it seems like everyone in elite schools is either from “just outside Boston,” Westchester, or New Jersey.</p>
<p>Wow at my school, overall we have students going to higher ranked institutions, but we only had 2 at harvard and 1 at brown compared to your whopping 6!</p>
<p>I think all the universities don’t think my high school is that hard even though we’re probably one of the best in the nation…</p>
<p>My school (located 2 blocks away from Harvard) sends 7-11 kids regularly to Harvard… and ZERO during my year to MIT… ridiculous. This year, we sent 2 to MIT tho. MIT does not play favs with our school :-(</p>
<p>Boston Latin School probably has an explicit agreement with Harvard to send like 22-25 kids there every year… :(</p>
<p>Pierre: Belmont High School is one of the best public high schools around Boston… You have students coming to Cambridge to take classes in Harvard extension at night (I saw like 5 Belmont kids sitting in the back of my linear algebra class) Students there are overachievers…</p>
<p>no I’m just curious how it’s even possible for a public high school to send so many people to good colleges. And you are right there are several (5-10 students) who are taking multivariable calculus at Harvard extension but that’s only 3% of my class. My school has around 1,200 students total. If it’s true that people get into good schools because of the “elitism” around the Boston area, then I think that’s pretty sad.</p>
<p>my brother went to Stuyvesant and it was even more ridiculous. he was one of 11 people that went to Yale (though many more got in). I read that 10% of their class went to Harvard/Princeton/MIT/Chicago/Hopkins or Amherst/Williams/Swarthmore/Pomona.</p>
<p>then again it’s hard to get into even though it’s a public school, so it’s not quite the same.</p>
<p>Crap. I go to one of the top private schools in the Twin Cities and we sent one to Berkeley, one to UPenn, one to Stanford, 7 to Notre Dame, 1 to Cornell, and 2 to Northwestern. </p>
<p>Not even close to your school.</p>
<p>BTW, where do you get lists like this for schools?</p>
<p>yeah I’ve heard of Stuyvesant, but I think you have to apply to get into that school?</p>
<p>I got this list from Naviance (if you know what that is), going to each college and adding up the 2009 Enroll totals (of course, I know most of them already since I go to school with these people)</p>
<p>10 people going to ivies sounds like a lot to me. our school had 2, and our class is about half the size (though a few went to similar caliber schools like Duke and UVA). most of our top students go to top liberal arts colleges.</p>
MIT does not play favs with our school :-(</p>