Where are the top 10 students from your (or your child's) high school going to?

From a small CA private school . . .
Columbia (2)
Brown (1)
UCLA (3)
Stanford (1)
UC Berkeley (3)

In order (We have a four way tie for Val, two way tie for Sal):
Valedictorian: MIT
Valedictorian: UCLA
Valedictorian: UC Berkeley
Valedictorian: UC Berkeley
Salutatorian: UCR
Salutatorian: UCR
Number 3: UC Irvine
Number 4: UCSD
Number 5: Harvard
Number 6: UCSD

Other top schools that our school is sending students to (who arenā€™t in the top 10):
Dartmouth, Harvard (another one), Brown, Northwestern, Cornell, USC, Duke, Pomona and Amherst

Iā€™m not sure, but I think Yale, Stanford, UChicago, Columbia, UPenn, Brown (2), Swarthmore, Pomona and Berkeley.

  1. Rice
  2. Berkeley
  3. Yale
    I donā€™t know the order of the rest of the 10:
    UCLA, UCLA, UCLA, UCLA, Berkeley, Berkeley, Davis

I was 13 with a 4.63 and went to Sac State. I wouldā€™ve proudly represented this school if I didnā€™t get 11 Bā€™s in English ā€“ I did take the most APs.

I graduated and found a full time job before 9/10 graduated. The valedictorian graduated at the same time as me.

Yale (2), Notre Dame (2), American, Penn, Swarthmore, CMU, and not sure

Urban high school with a graduating class of about 850. They donā€™t rank so there were 23 unweighted 4.0s all considered Vals. I donā€™t know everyone but my S16ā€™s class sent one to Columbia, Harvey Mudd presidential scholarship-full ride, Tufts, Reed (my kid), UCLA, Berkeley, USC, and Cal State Long Beach (CSULB), CSULB, CSULB, CSULB, CSULB, CSULB, CSULB, CSULB, CSULBā€¦ Needless to say, they really push CSULB. Bet you can guess my city!

They do an award ceremony and call all the 4.0s to the stage and they announce their colleges so it is pretty obvious where they are going and most are going to CSULB. I think our College Center needs to do a bit more work. many of these kids are lower income and could have had some great financial aid at SLACs but there is a big push for getting everyone toā€¦CSULB.

CSULB is an automatic admit for all students in the city who have minimal requirements. Some donā€™t look beyond.

This is all I can remember from my Dā€™s small (graduating class < 100) suburban HS which rarely gets anyone into an Ivy League school (not for lack of applying) ā€¦ Haverford, Rochester, Colgate, RPI, RIT, Brandeis, WPI, BC, Cornell.

My sonā€™s class valedictorian attended Elmira College. His class also had kids attending BC, NYU, Cornell, Syracuse, William Smith, RIT, Clarkson, Villanova

Other schools that commonly show up include Union College, Binghamton, and Geneseo.

This list seems like an outlier compared to other posted lists.

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Georgia Tech (2 students)
University of Florida
University of Texas Dallas (my kid)
Georgetown
Vanderbilt
Duke
Cornell
Washington University of St Louis
University of South Florida

Large public in Florida with over 650 graduating seniors. Very economically diverse with everything from homeless kids to very exclusive neighborhoods. The kids from the exclusive neighborhoods are prestige driven (wonder why?) and want to go out of state.

Valedictorian (NMS):George Washington University
Salutatorian (NMS): UCF Burnett Medical Honors College - Full COA Scholarship (Turned down UF Honors)
Number 3: UPenn
Number 4: Clemson - Merit

Stats really drop-off after Number 3. There are two more NMS in the top ten and three not in the top ten.

Not sure of the rest of the top ten, but many of the top 5% are going to UF and most of the top 25% are going to FSU or UCF. The low cost in-state publics are by far the most popular choice. A surprisingly high number choose the CC route (Floridaā€™s 2+2 plan)

Two recruited athletes not in the top ten are going to Princeton and Cornell.

For full disclosure my D is top 5% and choose UF.

2 going to UChicago
2 going Yale
2 going Harvard
3 going UPenn
1 going UVA

How would you know who the ā€œtop tenā€ students are and who cares? Just perpetuates the need for College Boardā€™s existence.

Your school is not a joke. These are great schools, and the students are likely to get more attention as undergrads then they will get at an Ivy.

Donā€™t be bitter @klbmom18 As seen in previous posts its relatively easy to figure out the top 10, no need to participate on this thread if it upsets you. Nothing wrong with the schools in #22 but I doubt you would ā€œget more attention at Ohio Stateā€ than an Ivy.

CC never fails to amaze me. My class has about 100 students and I go to a public school in PA that is considered to be pretty good in our area. We rarely send kids to top schools, especially if you donā€™t count athletic recruits. Most of our top 10 is probably headed to Penn State or Pitt.

CC suffers from the fact that usually only those who are extremely high achievers would seek to join a community like this. It is only natural to see a high proportion of CC members go to top ranked schools.

@CaucAsianDad Palm Beach Gardens?

small private catholic school ( southern california ā€“ 140 seniors) my Dā€™s class of 2016
2 Stanford
1 Yale
1 Cornell
1 Notre Dame
3 UCLA
1 Boston C.
1 Boston U.

S 18 attends an all-boys Catholic HS in NY. 420 graduates and a pressure-cooker atmosphere.

These are the most selective schools from last yearā€™s destination list, and how many students are attending:
2 Brown
5 Cornell
2 Dartmouth
4 Georgetown
1 Johns Hopkins
1 MIT
1 USAFA
1 USMA
2 USNA
9 Notre Dame
3 Penn
1 Swarthmore
1 Yale

The most popular destinations are Fordham, SUNY Binghamton and Villanova, with 18-20 students going to each of them.

@HSStudent938 Sounds exactly like our good small PA public high school (hey, it could be the same school!). I agree 100% about CC being something of an alternate universe!