^ if possible, could the posters list what state or city they are from as this provides excellent context for the Uni choices. Thanks
From a Los Angeles suburb
From the top ten:
Berkeley- 3
UCLA - 2
USC- 1
UCSD- 3
UCSB- 1
anddddd me #14- Northwestern 
Most of the other students (380 people) are either going to community college, cal states, out of state state schools, or trade schools.
Public school in Virginia with 400 graduates.
- Columbia (Valedictorian)
- Duke (Salutatorian)
- GA Tech
- UVA (3 others also)
- VA Tech
- William & Mary
- VCU
My daughter headed to University of Southern California in the fall. Academic competitiveness crazy nowadays. Daughter had 3.9 UW, 4.2 W. Top 20% of class GPA. Top 5% class SAT.
Adding outside of top 10;
Brown University (1)
Johns Hopkins University (1)
Carnegie Mellon (2)
UVA (at least another 10-15)
William & Mary (probably 5 more)
GA. Tech (1 or 2, I believe)
NYU (1)
Fordham (2)
US Naval Academy (1)
West Point (1)
VA Tech (a lot, 40, at least)
JMU (again, a lot, 25, at least)
South Carolina (10)
Tennessee (5)
Numerous singles; Alabama, Arizona State, BYU, Clemson, Drexel, ECU, Elon, Florida, GWU, Miami, Ole Miss, NC State, Oklahoma State, SDSU, etc.
The results reflect about half her class reporting college destination.
A private boarding school (outside of US) that has about 60~70 kids.
Top 1. Wesleyan (also admitted to Rice, Emory, and all those great schools)
Top 2~3. NYU (50k scholarship per year. Also admitted to Brown, CMU, and etc).
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Top 40ish. There was one kid who got accepted to Berkeley from the waiting list with act score lower than 30. He was just an average student.
No she doesnât. Vassar doesnât award athletic scholarships.
This is such an interesting thread and so much resonates with what others are saying.
DS Public HS, 375 grads, Phoenix
1- Villanova
2- NY Institute of Technology
3-10 spread out between UofA, ASU, Embry-Riddle
No one was accepted into an Ivy/Stanford, although I do know several applied. The vast majority of kids here stay in state.
S2 very highly ranked public STEM HS in WA with 142 graduating this coming Friday. I got a look at the college list over the weekend. The school does not rank so no idea who is top 10, but I thought the list was telling. Average ACT for the class was 31.
1- 26 kids going to UW next year (commutable).
2- 13 heading to WSU, including two who were likely top-10. Direct entry to engineering and CS are a big draw.
3- 11 to UW-Bothell (also commutable)
Others - 3 to Rice, 3 to CO Mines, 1 ea to GT, UIUC, Emory, ND, Carleton, RIT, Babson and Cal Poly.
Notably absent - Big fat zero to Ivys, MIT, Stanford, Cal Tech.
@Magnetron I have never seen a public with and average ACT of 31, unless it is selective. Do they admit everyone, or do you have to apply?
@Much2learn If you look at a list of highly-ranked public high schools, most of the top schools are magnet schools that do have selective entry.
Much2learn, It is by lottery, but very self-selective by the nature of the curriculum and way more rigorous than the regular high schools. Every class is either Honors or AP.
I went to a competitive private school that didnât officially rank past top 5 (but people could figure out 6-10 themselves since the school was fairly small). As you can probably tell from the list, it is in Canada. In my year:
- University of Waterloo
- University of Toronto
- Cambridge
- Penn
- Oxford 6-10. McMaster University, Harvard, Stanford, University of Toronto, Yale
Notables not in top 10 (numbers donât include the above): Stanford (2), MIT (1), Oxford (1), Yale (1), Penn (1), Brown (1), Columbia (1), Cornell (3), UChicago (1), Amherst (1), University College London (1), London School of Economics (1), UC Berkeley (2), NYU (1), State School BS/MD (2). Rest of the class went to public schools in Canada (UBC, McGill, U of T, Waterloo, Western, Queens, McMaster etc.) Typically, more of the class stays in Canada but my class had better than usual luck with American and UK admissions.
Public suburban high school in the southeast with an IB program.
Val- UNC-Chapel Hill
Sal-MIT
3-Princeton
4?Naval Academy
5?Air Force Academy
Multiple kids to GaTech
Another kid going to Princeton through Questbridge (also one to Yale and one to USC through Quesbridge)
I go to a very small school of 37 students. The top 10 kids are going to:
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
UCLA
Claremont Mckenna
Duke
JHU
UCLA
UCLA
USC
UCSD
I went to class of 2017 graduation. Class of 485 students. Top 10 students: UPenn
Texas A&M
Harvard
UT Austin
Harvard
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
Texas Tech
Texas Tech.
With Texas Tech being the local school.
Top private school in Florida
Top 8 students:
Harvard
UChicago
Princeton
UPenn
Amherst
USC (accepted in Yale)
UFlorida
Cornell
At my DDâs school, Barnard enrolled the largest number of girls (6). According to the schoolâs newsletter, the following universities enrolled multiple students:
Georgetown - 8
Columbia - 6
Harvard - 4
Brown - 4
NYU - 11
UVA - 4
The graduation ceremony was this past Friday and I thought I should make a couple of corrections and additions. Only 121 graduating (not 142) of the initial 150, bad intel on S2âs part. 117 have college plans, 3 taking a gap year and 1 undecided.
I am not sure if I missed these on the original list or that things changed in the past month, but there is one kid going to an Ivy - Cornell - and one going to Cal Tech. Three are headed to UC-Berkeley. One to Northwestern, two to Northeastern. One will be going to Germany and six to Canada: two Torontos, one each to McGill, Dalhousie, Waterloo and UBC. Six will be attending Western Washington U and a bunch (maybe 10, didnât count) will be headed to the local CC.
We still donât know who the top 10 were for GPA, do know the 7 NMS finalists, but those who survived the four years of STEM education are pretty well positioned for college.
@CottonTails- Our school, a private college prep prints the entire list of acceptances- no names attached.
On May 1, the Seniors all wear there college T-shirts. 100% attend college. Similiar to what @shortnuke posted above.
For CA high schools: Ivies, Ivy league like schools (i.e., Stanford, Univ. of Chicago, MIT, Cal Tech), Northwestern, Georgtown, Duke, UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC, highly ranked liberal arts schools like Claremont McKenna, Pomoma College.
S17 graduated from TJHSST. They put out a journal of the class and showed which schools the grads are going to. About two dozen are headed to Harvard, MIT, and Stanford alone. Largest number go to UVA, VT, and W&M. Other schools well represented include Yale, Columbia, NYU,UCB, UIUC, Purdue.