Of the top ten members that I know, the valedictorian is going to Pomona, salutatorian to UCLA, one top ten member to Swarthmore, and another to Cal Poly SLO!
From @ProfessorPlum168 âThis is a typically âBerkeley or bustâ school and this year we had 36 listed who are going, though I think there are closer to 40 when the official numbers come out. Not a single person to Stanford, though I never hear of any local students who get in unless they are a notable athlete or the like. Stanford is the school that ought to be investigated.â - Our high school doesnât list the top 10 kids or where they are going, but Naviance tells me that weâve had 12 kids get into Stanford between 2010 and 2017. This is a mid-peninsula public high school, graduating around 350-400 kids /year. The local kids I personally know who have gotten into Stanford have all been alumni kids or had a parent working there, fwiw, although I also know alums whose kids didnât get in. (For comparison, in the same time frame, 115 kids were accepted to Berkeley and 6 to Harvard).
@washugrad I can very personally tell you that being a Stanford employee doesnât necessarily help get a kid in as well.
Our school has waaaay more kids attend Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon and MIT than Stanford over the years. Something doesnât seem right when the school thatâs a 20 minute drive away wonât take anyone locally.
- Brandeis (valedictorian), regular decision/ the only National Merit Finalist in the entire high school
- UC Berkeley (salutatorian), regular decision
- U of Chicago, early decision
- SUNY Stony Brook, regular decision
- Vanderbilt, early decision
- Williams, early decision/ legacy
- Fordham, regular decision
- Cornell, regular decision/ URM
- Brown, early decision/ recruited athlete
- U of Virginia, (regular decision?)
Public school - 450 kids. Val is going to MIT, Sal is going to Northwestern. No idea who the others in the top 10 are but we have kids going to UChicago, Hopkins, Virginia, Richmond, GT, Vanderbilt, W&M, W&L, Pepperdine, Princeton, VT etc. Very bright and driven class.
Small Private School.~90 grads: Val - UCF Sal -Georgetown. Others in no orderâŠTulane (2), UVA, Vanderbilt , Naval Academy, U SCarolina, Clemson
This year we have 15 kids heading to Ivy league schools. (Apparently at least one at each of the eight schools.) The Val is going to Princeton - first one to be accepted their since 2011. (I happen to know that kid as he was a good friend of my older sonâs.) He got into Columbia and Harvard as well. The salutorian is going to Harvard. Six are going to Cornell. This is a first - so I only know it because it was all over the news. Class size is about 600.
- Val- Fordham, with full tuition (also NMF)
- Sal- Penn
- Northwestern
- Chicago
- Georgetown
- Yale
- Duke
- Notre Dame
- Princeton
- Brown
Thereâs one other going to Yale, 2 to Columbia, 5 to Cornell, 3 to West Point, 1 to USNA, 2 to Carnegie Mellon, 2 to Johns Hopkins, 2 to Vanderbilt, 1 to UNC-Chapel Hill, 1 to UCLA, 1 to UVA, 3 to Boston College
Catholic HS in NY; most popular OOS destinations are Notre Dame, Villanova, U of South Carolina and U of Miami
1 NMF and 11 commended
International HS class of 85 students - UCLA, Mount Holyoke, NYU, Purdue, Waterloo, London School of Economics, NYU, The New School, University of Toronto, Georgia Tech, UIUC, (plus lots more in UK and Canada.)
- Brown
- UW Seattle
- MSOE
- Marquette
- UPenn
- idk
- Colgate (me)
- MIT
- UW Oshkosh
- idk
Other good schools: Another student to Brown, one to Princeton, one to West Point
Last year, top 10 kids â school doesnât rank but kids know generally who they are â did not get into Ivy or Stanford. But some top 20 kids got into Stanford, CalTech, Yale etc. This year, several Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Columbia, UChicago, with around 35 kids admitted to UCLA and Berkeley. Kids at this school (Southern CA Public) must be getting smarter.
I get the feeling top colleges do not really view top 10 kids as more sought after kids than top 25.
At Sâs SW prep school, donât know who are top ten, but no HYP or MIT admits. 1 Cornell, 1 Brown, several to UT Austin, a few to Michigan, 2 Georgia tech, 1 wash u, 2 Stanford ( 1 legacy/donor and a really smart URM). Not a good year for the Ivyâs, or for white or Asian (non Pacific Islander) high stats males going into engineering.
By the way, all info comes from my kid who attended HS last year and who heard about this yearâs results from someone he knows. Otherwise, I donât talk at all with any parent from the same HS. I care less which student is going where.
In no particular order out of the top 20 or so:
Binghamton
Stony Brook
Albany
Buffalo
Geneseo
RPI
RIT
U of Rochester
Princeton (URM)
Penn (URM)
Middlebury
Hamilton
Clemson
A few observations and comments:
- We do not do well in ivy placements. There are two schools in the area that do much better than us.
- Shocked no one got into Cornell. Usually a few of the top Bio oriented kids (mostly girls, but occasionally a boy) go to CALS. (Maybe they got in but couldn't afford it?)
- The Mid kid is absolutely brilliant and has tremendous STEM ECs. Not quite 1st place Regeneron, but pretty close. Can't believe she didn't get into an ivy. I know they applied to a few. How did admissions miss her? Even I'm salty about this.
- More top students picking SUNY probably due to cost. I'm know some of my kids friends are chasing Med school so maybe they know saving money in undergrad is key.
- From naviance, Bing is barely below ivys and getting more competitive every year. I'd bet, if costs keep going up > 2%/year, in 10 years Bing will look like Cornell statistically.
- Stony and Buffalo also are are the rise. (Stony is starting to pick off our top male Math/CS students, probably from RPI due to cost)
- Even Albany picked up a few probably because of the Excelsior scholarships and location to state govt for internships. (In ye olde days when Albany was equal to Bing, 3 of my UAlbany housemates had legislative internships and were able to live in Albany and then just continue school the next semester without messing around with housing sublets or lose their really really good part time jobs.) They are all law firm partners in NYC (without going to a T14 law school) and make a heck of a lot more than me now.
In Michigan it is usually a pretty boring list, this year as always most to University of Michigan, one to a service academy and the outliers with one to Wisconsin Madison and one to Washington and one to Iowa. It is always more interesting to see the outliers. It is the first year I can recall that no one in the tippy top is going to a private college.
Yale - 4
Georgetown - 5
Johns Hopkins - 3
Brown - 2
Columbia - 2
Duke - 2
Northwestern - 2
Notre Dame - 2
Princeton - 2
Berkeley - 2
Chicago - 1
Harvard - 1
Penn - 1
Rice - 1
Vandy - 1
My kids actually didnât go there, but our local Philly-area high school with 800+ per class publishes the top 20. Several, as usual, are going to each of Penn, Penn State Schreyer, and Temple. One each to Drexel, Pitt, and Villanova. The only LAC on the list was Ursinus. Few are going out of state. The mix is very different from that of my childrenâs PA boarding school. Although quite a few students are from Pennsylvania and quite a few are going to PA colleges, the PA colleges are mostly LACs. The top two students are going to UC Berkeley and Cal Tech. The school doesnât rank otherwise, but the top students as a bunch (those elected to the Cum Laude Society in the first round) are going to a nice mix of LACs and universities all over the country (as are most of the others, top students or not).
Johns Hopkins University
Boston University
UC Berkeley
Georgia Tech
Brown
Top ten students from here usually end up at UT, Rice, Vanderbilt, Duke and CMU with an exception of two or three taking Baylor/Baylor or Rice /Baylor for joint medical path. Top listers in this district are usually affluent ORMs who either get shunned/waitlisted by Ivies or served a ridiculously high COA estimate, not affordable or acceptable for their families.
University of Utah
BYU
Boise State
Idaho State
University of Idaho
University of Nevada, Reno
Scripps
Oregon State
University of Montana
LDS missions in various places
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