Where did your seniors go last year?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm thinking that where your senior years went last year may be an
indication of where you may land up next year. Well, at least on the
average ... your mileage may vary.</p>

<p>So, I took a look at my large (~450 graduates) CA public high school
newspaper and here's what I found.
- More than 10% went to UC Berkeley
- About 40% went to some UC
- The largest contingents were to UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCI in order
- About 5% went to the top tier privates with six to Stanford
and one or two each to Harvard, Columbia, Penn, USC, NW, MIT,
CalTech etc.</p>

<p>I'm in the top 10% of my class in grades, scores, EC etc. So my
guess is that the odds are pretty high that I might end up in UCB or UCLA after all? I know this varies year to year and the dice will roll.
Am I totally off base on this?</p>

<p>I'm interested to know what others can tell me about their schools.</p>

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<p>9 to brown
3 to columbia
5 to cornell
3 to dartmouth
4 to duke
7 to georgetown
9 to harvard
2 to mit
4 to princeton
3 to stanford
5 to usc
9 to upenn
4 to uva
5 to yale</p>

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<p>Large public school in NYC (780 seniors)</p>

<p>The only Ivy we were successful with were two kids that got into Cornell, one to Columbia, and one who was waitlisted at Harvard.</p>

<p>Universities others were accepted to include:</p>

<p>Williams, Brandeis,U of Miami, Boston U, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, U Mass at Amherst, Georgetown, NYU, Boston College, CUNY Honors, Stony Brook, Binghamton, Buffalo, Albany, U of Florida, Fordham, Hofstra, Adelphi, and a bunch of others.</p>

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<p>I hope that doesn't indicate anything.
Here's the complete list from my school:</p>

<p>Atlanta Metropolitan College - 1
Becker College - 3
Bentley College - 1
Boston University - 1
Bridgewater State College - 1
Brigham Young University - 1
Bryman College - 1
Cape Cod Community College - 31
Castleton State College - 1
Curry College - 3
Dean College - 3
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - 1
Endicott College - 1
Fitchburg State College - 1
Florida Institute of Technology - 1
Framingham State College - 1
Ithaca College - 1
Johnson and Wales-Miami - 1
Johnson and Wales-NC - 1
Johnson County Community College - 1
Johnson State College - 1
Lasell College - 2
Lynn University - 1
Marine Mechanics Institute - 1
Massachusetts College of Art - 1
Massachusetts Maritime Academy - 2
Massasoit Community College - 1
McIntosh College - 1
Merrimack College - 1
Motorcycle Mechanics Institute - 1
Nichols College - 1
Norwich University - 1
Queens University of Charlotte - 1
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - 1 (was valedictorian)
Rhode Island School of Design - 1
Roger Williams University - 4
Sacred Heart University - 1
Salem State College - 3
Salve Regina University - 1
Shaw University - 1
Simmons College - 1
Southern New Hampshire University - 1
Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale - 1
Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University - 1
Thomas College - 2
UMASS Amherst - 2 (1 was salutatorian)
UMASS Boston - 1
UMASS Dartmouth - 6
UMASS Lowell - 1
University of New Hampshire - 3
University of Vermont - 1
Wentworth Institue of Technology - 3
Western New England College - 1
Westfield State College - 2
The rest went into the military or employment.</p>

<p>As you can tell, I don't go to the most competitive high school.</p>

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<p>Class size of roughly 125.</p>

<p>Graduates of the four most recent Forms attended the following institutions</p>

<p>Harvard University 33</p>

<p>Brown University 29</p>

<p>University of Pennsylvania 28</p>

<p>Dartmouth College 27</p>

<p>Georgetown University 26</p>

<p>Yale University 26</p>

<p>Cornell University 20</p>

<p>Princeton University 18</p>

<p>University of Virginia 16</p>

<p>Columbia University 15</p>

<p>Stanford University 15</p>

<p>Duke University 14</p>

<p>Trinity College 11</p>

<p>Williams College 11</p>

<p>Colgate University 9</p>

<p>Middlebury College 9</p>

<p>Boston College 8</p>

<p>Johns Hopkins University 8</p>

<p>Tufts University 8</p>

<p>University of California-Berkeley 8</p>

<p>University of North Carolina 8</p>

<p>Bowdoin College 7</p>

<p>University of Chicago 7</p>

<p>Wellesley College 7</p>

<p>Wesleyan University 7</p>

<p>Carnegie Mellon University 6</p>

<p>MIT 5</p>

<p>New York University 5</p>

<p>Northwestern University 5</p>

<p>Bates College 5</p>

<p>University of Michigan 5</p>

<p>Vanderbilt University 5</p>

<p>Amherst College 4</p>

<p>Barnard College 3</p>

<p>Colby College 3</p>

<p>Connecticut College 3</p>

<p>Haverford College 3</p>

<p>McGill University 3</p>

<p>Swarthmore College 3</p>

<p>Univ. of California-Los Angeles 3</p>

<p>University of New Hampshire 3</p>

<p>University of St. Andrews 3</p>

<p>Vassar College 3</p>

<p>Washington & Lee University 3</p>

<p>Wheaton College 3</p>

<p>Davidson College 4</p>

<p>Emory University 2</p>

<p>Hobart & William Smith Colleges 2</p>

<p>Rice University 2</p>

<p>Smith College 2</p>

<p>University of California-Santa Cruz 2</p>

<p>Wake Forest University 2</p>

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<p>Son goes to a private prep school with about 200+ seniors/year. Last year, two went to local community college, one traveled. The rest went to:</p>

<p>Boston U (12)
Santa Clara U (6)
UCalifornia (10, including 3 at UCLA)
UHawaii (26)
USoCaL (26)
U Pacific (6)
U Penn (4)
U Washington (13)
Harvard (3)
Yale (1)
Brown (1)
Stanford (2)
MIT (1)
IIT (2)
Northwestern (3)
US Academies (4)
Notre Dame (1)
Wheaton (1)
Claremont Colleges (5)
Boston College (3)
WUStL (3)
Willamette U (4)
U Puget Sound (3)
The rest went to various other schools, including some highly rated schools, LACs & many state schools & private colleges.</p>

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<p>My school sends people off to ivies occasionally {Cornell, Princeton, I think Duke too}. The class' size is about 400.</p>

<p>Last year:</p>

<p>NYU: 2
American: 1 {turned down Princeton ;O}
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: 3 or 4</p>

<p>I don't remember right now, I'm really tired.</p>

<p>But people got accepted to Princeton, Northwestern, Cornell, University of Virginia, and the like.</p>

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<p>We have about 60 people in each grade. Our val went to St. Olaf, and everyone else either went to a state school (about 35 percent), a community college (about 10 percent), a tech school (about 35 percent), or just started working (about 20 percent.) My school sucks.</p>

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<p>i go to a public school in NJ, but 97% go to a four-year college (and the other 3% go to community college).</p>

<p>Last year:
Princeton - 1
Cornell - 2
Columbia - 2
Stanford - 3 (one got a full ride)
UPenn - 1
Dartmouth - 2
Duke - 2
MIT - 2</p>

<p>Class size is about 280.</p>

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<p>In our typical class of 50 (Catholic suburban)... </p>

<p>Ivies ~5%
Notre Dame/BC/Georgetown ~5%
Other Catholic Schools ~15%
In-state private (Wooster, Denison, OH Northern) ~25%
In-state public (mostly OSU, Miami) ~35%
Other out-of-states ~15%</p>

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<p>i go to a michigan public high school (class size around 350)</p>

<p>these are people whom i personally know:
harvard-1
yale-2
brown-1
berkeley-1
michigan-at least 40ish
etc.</p>

<p>there are probably others</p>

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<p>suburban Philly 500 kids competitive
less than 10% left the state, 2 or 3 ago Ivy League each year, and a handful more to the top LACS. PSU, main campus and branches very popular as is Pitt and Temple. Lesser states get about 10% of the grads. Local colleges, Widener, Neuman, St Joes etc about 20%. Local Community college close to 10 %. Wealthier decent student types go to places like Dickinson, Muhlenberg, Moravian, Gettysburg etc. Very few travel more than a couple of hundred miles.</p>

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<p>Of a graduating class of roughly 350 students:</p>

<p>Brown University - 2 (3 admitted)
Cornell University - 0 (4 admitted)
Dartmouth College - 2 (3 admitted)
Georgetown University - 3 (9 admitted)
Harvard University - 1 (5 admitted)
Stanford University - 8 (13 admitted)
Princeton University - 2 (4 admitted)
Yale University - 3 (5 admitted)
University of Pennsylvania - 2 (2 admitted)
University of California, Berkeley - 28 (54 admitted)</p>

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<p>S's central city public HS in the northwest, 191 our of 405 went to college, many to top tier private & public universities and LAC's, 9 to Stanford alone, 1 UChicago, 2 Harvard, 2 Princeton, 3 Columbia, 2 Dartmouth, 5 Brown, 1 Cornel, 1 UPenn, and more. Students tend to go pretty much where they want to go.</p>

<p>Nearly complete list:</p>

<p>Alaska Pacific University ( 1)
Art institute of Seattle (1)
Bellevue Community College (4)
Berklee College of Music ( 1)
Boston University (2)
Brandeis University ( 1)
Bowdoin College ( 1)
Brown University ( 5)
Carleton College (2)
Carnegie Mellon(1)
Central St. Martins ( 1)
Clark University ( 1)
Colgate University ( 1)
Columbia University ( 2)
Columbia University/Jewish Theological Seminary ( 1)
Cornell University ( 1)
Concordia University( 1)
Cornish College of the Arts ( 3)
Dartmouth College ( 2)
Duke University ( 1)
Eastern Washington University (1)
Emory University (1)
George Washington University (3)
Goucher College (1)
Hampton University (1)
Hartwick College (1)
Harvard University (2)
Howard University (1)
Ithaca College (1)
Johns Hopkins University (1)
Lewis & Clark College (1)
Loyola Marymount University (3)
Michigan State (1)
Montana State University (1)
New York University (3)
Norfolk State University (1)
Northwestern University (3)
Oberlin College (2)
Oberlin Conservatory (2)
Occidental College (3)
Otis School of Design (1)
Parsons (3)
Princeton University(2)
Pratt Institute(4)
Pomona College (2)
Pitzer College (1)
Reed College (1)
Rhode Island school of Design (1)
Roosevelt University (1)
Scripps College (2)
Seattle Central Community College (6)
Seattle Pacific University (2)
Seattle University (2)
Skidmore College (1)
Stanford University (9)
Spelman College (1)
Swarthmore College (1)
Tulane University (1)
Tufts University (1)
University of British Columbia (1)
University of California - Berkeley (2)
University of California -Los Angeles (2)
University Of California- Santa Cruz (1)
University of Chicago (1)
University of Colorado - Boulder (1)
University of Denver (1)
University of Michigan- Ann Arbor (2)
University of Montana (2)
University of Oregon (1)
University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill (2)
University of Pennsylvania (1)
University of Portland (1)
University of Puget Sound (1)
University of Redlands (2)
University of Washington (38)
University of Wisconsin -Madison (2)
University of Southern California (1)
University of Warwick (1)
Washington University in St Louis (2)
Washington State University (1)
Western Washington University (13)
Whitman College (3)
Willamette University (3)
Wake Forest College (1)
Xavier University of Louisiana (2)
Villanova College (1)</p>

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<p>These are the colleges attended by graduates from my school for the past 4 years (college prep school with ~80 kids in each class). Every year the past 4 years every graduate is attending a 4 year college except for one. </p>

<ul>
<li>Amherst College - 5</li>
<li>Barnard College - 1</li>
<li>Boston College - 4</li>
<li>Boston University - 2</li>
<li>Bowdoin College - 1</li>
<li>Brandeis University - 3</li>
<li>Brown University - 6</li>
<li>Bryn Mawr College - 3</li>
<li>Bucknell University - 2</li>
<li>California State University, Long Beach - 1</li>
<li>Carleton College - 2</li>
<li>Carnegie-Mellon University - 8</li>
<li>Colgate University - 5</li>
<li>College of Charleston - 1</li>
<li>College of the Holy Cross - 1</li>
<li>College of William & Mary - 3</li>
<li>College of Wooster - 1</li>
<li>Colorado College - 2</li>
<li>Columbia University - 4</li>
<li>Connecticut College - 4</li>
<li>Corcoran School of Art - 1</li>
<li>Cornell University - 9</li>
<li>Dartmouth College - 4</li>
<li>Davidson College - 6</li>
<li>Denison University - 2</li>
<li>DePaul University - 1</li>
<li>Dickinson College - 2</li>
<li>Drew University - 1</li>
<li>Duke University - 10</li>
<li>Emory University - 2</li>
<li>Franklin & Marshall College - 1</li>
<li>George Washington University - 4</li>
<li>Georgetown University - 7</li>
<li>Georgia Institute of Technology - 1</li>
<li>Gettysburg College - 1</li>
<li>Hamilton College - 3</li>
<li>Hampshire College - 1</li>
<li>Harvard University - 2</li>
<li>Haverford College - 1</li>
<li>Indiana University - 2</li>
<li>James Madison University - 2</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University - 3</li>
<li>Kenyon College - 3</li>
<li>Loyola University [New Orleans] - 1</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 1</li>
<li>Miami University [Ohio] - 2</li>
<li>Middlebury College - 5</li>
<li>New York University - 8</li>
<li>Northwestern University - 2</li>
<li>Ohio State University - 1</li>
<li>Point Park College - 1</li>
<li>Pomona College - 3</li>
<li>Princeton University - 12</li>
<li>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - 1</li>
<li>Rochester Institute of Technology - 1<br></li>
<li>Rollins College - 1</li>
<li>Sarah Lawrence College - 1</li>
<li>Savannah College of Art & Design - 1</li>
<li>Scripps College - 1</li>
<li>Skidmore College - 1</li>
<li>Smith College - 1</li>
<li>Southern Methodist University - 2</li>
<li>Spelman College - 1</li>
<li>St. Andrews [Scotland] - 1</li>
<li>St. Andrews Presbyterian College - 1</li>
<li>St. John's College [Santa Fe] - 1</li>
<li>St. John's University - 1</li>
<li>St. Lawrence University - 1</li>
<li>Stanford University - 1</li>
<li>Susquehanna University - 1</li>
<li>Swarthmore College - 1</li>
<li>Syracuse University - 2</li>
<li>Temple University - 1</li>
<li>Texas A&M University - 1</li>
<li>Towson University - 1</li>
<li>Trinity College [Connecticut] - 8</li>
<li>Tufts University - 1</li>
<li>Tulane University - 3</li>
<li>United States Naval Academy [Annapolis] - 1</li>
<li>University of California, Berkeley - 1</li>
<li>University of Chicago - 2</li>
<li>University of Colorado - 1</li>
<li>University of Dayton - 1</li>
<li>University of Delaware - 2</li>
<li>University of Georgia - 1</li>
<li>University of Maryland, College Park - 6</li>
<li>University of Michigan - 5</li>
<li>University of Notre Dame - 2</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania - 13</li>
<li>University of Pittsburgh - 1</li>
<li>University of Puget Sound - 1</li>
<li>University of Richmond - 2</li>
<li>University of Rochester - 1</li>
<li>University of South Carolina - 1</li>
<li>University of Southern California - 1</li>
<li>University of Texas, Austin - 1</li>
<li>University of the South - Sewanee - 2</li>
<li>University of Vermont - 2</li>
<li>University of Virginia - 15</li>
<li>University of Wisconsin - 1</li>
<li>Vanderbilt University - 7</li>
<li>Vassar College - 5</li>
<li>Wake Forest University - 3</li>
<li>Washington & Lee University - 1</li>
<li>Washington University [St. Louis] - 6</li>
<li>Wesleyan University - 1</li>
<li>Williams College - 2</li>
<li>Worcester Polytechnic Institute - 1</li>
<li>Yale University - 6</li>
</ul>

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<p>scroll down to the last page of this document. :D</p>

<p><a href="http://uls.org/PDFs/2004-2005/ULS%20Profile%202004-05.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://uls.org/PDFs/2004-2005/ULS%20Profile%202004-05.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>~30 to UW-Madison
~25 to Marquette
~20 to St. Norberts
~100 to a whole lot of random schools no one here will have heard of
1 to NYU
1 to Notre Dame
1 to University of Chicago
1 to Boston College
1 to Georgetown</p>

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<p>For the sake of interest, I'll only mention the schools that CC people seem to be interested in. Out of a class of ~120 people(This is just for one year):</p>

<h1>Amherst College - 1</h1>

<h1>Brown University - 5</h1>

<h1>Carleton College - 3</h1>

<h1>Columbia University - 7</h1>

<h1>Cornell University - 6</h1>

<h1>Dartmouth College - 2</h1>

<h1>Duke University - 1</h1>

<h1>Emory University - 1</h1>

<h1>George Washington University - 4</h1>

<h1>Georgetown University - 1</h1>

<h1>Harvard University - 5</h1>

<h1>University of Michigan - 2</h1>

<h1>Middlebury College - 3 **</h1>

<h1>New York University - 1</h1>

<h1>Northwestern University - 2</h1>

<h1>Oberlin College - 2</h1>

<h1>Pitzer College - 1</h1>

<h1>University of Pennsylvania - 5</h1>

<h1>Pomona College - 3</h1>

<h1>Rhode Island School of Design - 1</h1>

<h1>Skidmore College - 3</h1>

<h1>Stanford University - 2</h1>

<h1>Swarthmore College - 1</h1>

<h1>Tufts University - 1</h1>

<h1>Vanderbilt University - 5</h1>

<h1>Vassar College - 4</h1>

<h1>University of Wisconsin - 6</h1>

<h1>Washington University - 2</h1>

<h1>Wellesley College - 1</h1>

<h1>Wesleyan University - 1</h1>

<h1>Williams College - 1</h1>

<h1>Yale University - 6</h1>

<p>28% of that class went to an Ivy league. But our school's college destinations are nothing compared to Andover or other top ranked boarding schools... :)</p>

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<p>A comment about the "only schools CC people " would be intersted in and the "100 to a whole lot of random schools no one here will have heard of"</p>

<p>While I appreciate you may not want to give a complete redition... this is why users should understand that large numbers of kids areg oing (and beign successful) at schools other than the top20 etc school.</p>

<p>I forget the numbers but something 1mm kids graduate from high school each year and Harvard takes 2000 --as they say you do the math.</p>

<p>regardless of your grades/scores etc there is an opportunity to start from where you are at and achieve in college</p>