Out of curiosity. In no particular order.
1 to UChicago
1 to West Point
1 to Brown
1 to Vanderbilt
1 to JHU
1 to USAFA
1 to Colorado School of Mines
2 to CU Boulder
1 to University of Denver
I don’t know all of the top 10, but at my DS’s school (very small private school in CA) the top 3 are going to Boston College (full ride), UCLA and USC.
I graduated with 1600+ students. I didn’t know where a single “top” student went. I know we had some going to Ivies, most to U of M, and then a handful of private LACs. But those are just people I know.
My HS was way too big to determine who were the top 10 students so they simplified it by making everyone who had a GPA of 4.0 or higher as tied for rank 1. Worked fine for us.
This was few years back at my D’s SoCal Suburban public HS:
Stanford
Yale
Columbia
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
Berklee College of Music
Berkeley
UCLA
UC San Diego
UC Davis
Daughters top 10
Duke
Stanford
U of Chicago
USC ( full ride)
Dartmouth
Brown
Vanderbilt ( Education major)
Penn/ Wharton 3
Also a recruited athlete in top 10 percent to Harvard.
Emory, UF, Cornell, Brown, Yale (accepted to Harvard and Princeton also), MIT, Northeastern (and I can’t remember the others). Small private.
The school allows students to put on the board their names and which schools they were admitted
Yale - 2; including Cassandra Hsiao - she got into every Ivy League school/Stanford, etc. and picked Yale - there’s an article about her on Yahoo news, LA Times and other media outlets
Stanford - I know 6 students alone got in during early admits
Princeton - 2; first time in the last 4 years that someone from this school got into Princeton
USC/Cal/Berkeley - double digits for each
NYU - too many to count, LOL NYU and USC are huge favorites at this school - we’re a conservatory and academic school
Pomona College - 1 (my daughter attends PMC currently)
Harvey Mudd - 1
Northwestern - 2
Other Ivy Leagues - all represented with students from OCSA - Orange County School of the Arts
Julliard - 1
I know one of them is going to Yale. Generally, the school sends kids to most Ivies as well as MIT, Stanford, and various LACs around the country.
D only knows about the expected val and sal: Princeton, and Rutgers.
Private Jesuit school with lots of middle and upper middle class families (last year). These were where the 15 vals went, most on scholarship:
Tulane
Ole Miss
Northeastern
U of Dallas
Notre Dame (5)
Fordham
Penn
LSU (2)
Alabama (2)
My school doesn’t rank, but it’s large (500 people in the class) public HS, with our three NHS officers (who are also three of the top 1% likely) one is going to UPenn, one to Columbia, and one on a full ride to UMich’s Honors College. For top thirty schools:
None at Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Rice, Duke, Chapel Hill, or Yale this year.
Four at UChicago
One at Columbia
Two at Stanford
Three at MIT
Three at UPenn
One at Dartmouth
Seven at Northwestern
One (Me!) at Brown
One at Notre Dame
Five at Vanderbilt
One at Wash U
One at Emory
Two at Georgetown
Four at UC-Berkeley
Three at USC
One at Carnegie Mellon
One at Tufts
Six at UMich
UT, Texas A&M, UTD, and Tufts. I might have missed one or two kids, but that is most everyone in top 10. Students don’t leave the state very often.
Approximate Top Ten: MIT, Duke (2), UVA, Wake Forest, Northwestern, William and Mary, Dartmouth, Swarthmore, and Wash U.
I am astonished how you all know this info. Nobody’s business, IMO.
@CottonTales It’s not uncommon for this to be published in one or more media. High Schools (particularly expensive private ones) like to post which “elite” schools their students are accepted to.
At D18’s HS a local restaurant held a breakfast in honor of the top 10 graduating seniors. It was shown on the community FB page with their GPA and college destination. I find it interesting that none of them chose to attend an Ivy, only one chose to attend a “Public Ivy”, and only 2 chose private universities in USNWR.
UF - 4 students (including Valedictorian and Salutatorian)
UCF - 2 students
ND - 1 student
UCLA 1 student
WUStl - 1 student
Warren U - 1 student
I only the Val at each one was Texas A&M the other was Vanderbilt.
Our school doesn’t rank, but we saw many kids get into top universities and LACs.
Harvard
Dartmouth
Yale (2)
Stanford (3)
Princeton
Columbia
Georgetown (2)
Middlebury (3)
Amherst (2)
Tufts
Northwestern
Cornell (4)
Caltech
MIT
Williams
Davidson (4)
It was kind of a ridiculous year for my school…my grade had some academic powerhouses.
@CottonTales students and parents alike, both like to talk about which schools they or there kids are going to, not super secret info.
There’s no ranking at my kids’ high school, but with only around 120 kids per year, it’s generally known who are the top students. There’s always a good crop and this year is no exception: Yale, UCB, UCLA, Northwestern, Wesleyan, Tufts, Pomona, Claremont McKenna, and Dartmouth. I’m almost positive that no one got into Stanford this year.
People post about it all over social media, and this year was insane. As soon as most people commit, they post about it on FB or Instagram a day later - helps I’m friends with a ton of those people and word gets around about college acceptances FAST esp if it’s to an Ivy.