<p>Brandeis should definitely be moved down, but Michigan is perfect just where it is. Also, Cooper Union is an art school. It may be the most selective art school in the country, but that, at best, gets it puts with the "rest" on a list with top universities.</p>
<p>One to Harvard, one to Stanford, one to Georgetown
Those are the most famous ones, but I know we have alot to USC, UCLA and Berkeley because we're a California school :)</p>
<p>Ok there are about 120 kids per grade in my school. Almost 20 are going to Yale. About 40-50 percent are going to Ivy League. Many more are going to MIT, Caltech, Duke, Stanford, Nwestern, Vandy, Gtown, Umich honors, etc. The very bottom of the class is going to Dickinson. My grade is even more ridiculous, 4 kids (out of 120 in the grade) received 2400s in May.</p>
<p>^ more amazing lol</p>
<p>What's the name of your school and what city is it in please?</p>
<p>I have to google this : 0</p>
<p>lol The ironic thing is that those kids at the bottom of their class accepted to Dickinson (who must be smart) wouldn't have gotten into UT Austin or (probably) Texas A and M.</p>
<p>jec, please don't comment on school rankings when you clearly don't know the college at hand. Cooper Union is not an art school. I'll eagerly anticipate you telling us Wharton is for pre-meds in another thread (or this one).</p>
<p>Is this a show off thread? I'm not impressed.</p>
<p>I don't really feel it's that much of a show-off thread.</p>
<p>Just because you go to a college that admits a lot of people to Ivies doesn't mean you will be admitted.</p>
<p>It might actually be harder because it's so hard to get into the top 20, let alone 10, percent.</p>
<p>Collectivsynergy, it's Cooper Union. It's focus is on Science and ART. I know it is ranked as the #1 Baccalaureate College in the North, but unfortunately that doesn't mean much. That ranks it on the list right above such academic powerhouses as Messiah College and Elizabethtown. I am sure you can get a fine education, and that it is a solid smaller school. I will reitorate that it deserves to be with the "rest". You seem to believe yourself to be at least somewhat intelligent, gathering from your attempt at a slight with the Wharton comment, so hopefully you will be able to grasp and accept what I am writing the second time around.</p>
<p>Mine is a small high school where remarkably few people go to good colleges. This year, out of a class of around 240, 1 went to Brown, 1 went to Macalester, one or two went to UCLA, and a few more went to some other decent UCs. The vast majority who are even going to college are going to the community college. Second to that is probably, for goodness knows what reason, Cal Poly. Everyone here seems to think that's the "cool" place to go, for fairly good students (top 15-4%). I have no idea why anyone would want to go there, personally. I don't know if anyone from my school has EVER gone to any of the colleges I'm thinking of (top LACs).</p>
<p>haha your school has 420 students.</p>
<p>my school has about 50 students per class. it's a small charter school- good academically but the student body is by no means wealthy. everyone is going to college this year & only two to community college. others are regional catholic schools (dallas, portland), our state schools, and one to duke (the val). </p>
<p>this was actually a very good year for us as almost all of the people at state schools have full or near full rides and are in honors colleges. most of them could have gone to names on the level of (say) michigan or washington but didn't have the money.</p>
<p>from an east coast prep school with about 35 percent freshman admissions:</p>
<p>alfred
allegheny
american (3)
bates
bellarmine
bc (2)
bu (2)
bucknell (2)
case
claremont mckenna
cmu (2)
coastal carolina
colgate (salutatorian)
coll of charleston (3)
colorado state
cornell
davidson
dickinson (2)
earlham
embry riddle
emerson
emory (3)
fairfield
florida state
f and m
frostburg state
gmu
georgetown
gettysburg (2)
goucher
hamilton
hampton
holy cross
indiana u
jmu (2)
john carroll u
kenyon
lafayette
lehigh (3)
loyola new orleans
macalester
mit (2)
mcgill
messiah
middlebury
nyu (3)
ole miss
pace
parsons
plymouth state
rensselaer
ringling
rollins
sewanee
smith
u south carolina honors
swarthmore
temple
tulane
u arizona
ucsb
uc boulder (2)
u del
u of evansville
uga
umbc
umass
u miami
upenn (3)
u pitt
u of puget sound
u of richmond (3)
u rochester (3)
us naval academy (5)
u tampa
ut - san antonio (2)
u of toronto (2)
uva - echols (valedictorian)
ursinus
vandy
vcu (2)
virginia tech
wake
wash coll (2)
wash u
wellesley
william and mary</p>
<p>pretty middle of the road.</p>
<p>This is published for the class of 2007... 2008 out in November.</p>
<p>School: Public with 50% bussing, affluent suburb of Los Angeles. 550 graduating seniors, exactly 50% of whom will attend a 4-yr. college, with another 45% attending a 2 year college (more than half to SM College which is a feeder into UC System).</p>
<p>n = 4 yr. college enrollees = 225</p>
<p>CHYMPS: 8 = 4%
Caltech - 1
Harvard - 0
Yale - 3 (1 athletic recruit)
MIT - 2
Princeton - 0
Stanford - 2</p>
<p>Other Top Schools arranged in order of admissions selectivity: (12 - 30%): 43 = 19%</p>
<p>Columbia - 0
Brown - 1 (athletic recruit)
Dartmouth - 0
Pomona - 0
Penn - 0
Williams - 1
Amherst - 0
Swarthmore - 0
Wash U - 0
Duke - 1
Georgetown - 0
Bowdoin - 0
Middlebury - 0
Claremont - 2
Rice - 0
UC Berkeley - 18
Cornell - 0
USC - 5
Haverford - 0
Barnard - 0
UCLA - 15
Tufts - 0
Johns Hopkins - 0
Wash & Lee - 0
Notre Dame - 0
Wesleyan - 0
Colgate - 0
Pepperdine - 1
Bard - 0
Boston College - 0
Harvey Mudd - 0
Northwestern - 0
Vassar - 0
Davidson - 0</p>
<p>Other Top USNWR ranked schools: 3%</p>
<p>School - USNWR Rank - # students attending</p>
<p>Chicago - 9 - 0
Emory - 17 - 0
Vanderbilt - 19 - 1
Carnegie Mellon - 22 - 0
Virginia - 23 - 0
Michigan - 25 - 2
N. Carolina - 28 - 0
Brandeis - 31 - 1
NYU - 34 - 3
Wellesley - s4 - 0</p>
<p>So, the number of students attending 4 year colleges that are attending either a USNWR top 35 - or - a school with 30% or lower admission rate is 58 / 225 = about 26%.</p>
<p>My school is totally inferior (public school in an OH suburb, for what it's worth):</p>
<p>Brown - 1
JHU - 1
NYU - 1</p>
<p>The rest went to schools in OH or western PA. It's kind of sad. :(</p>
<p>indyjimmy wrote: "this is not a good way to spend time, kids."</p>
<p>I disagree. I have wondered where our local high school fits among other suburban high schools, among rural schools, among urban schools, and among prep schools.</p>
<p>Gaining perspective is never a waste of time.</p>
<p>Seeing this thread, I am actually gaining an understanding that our school's 4% attendance to CHYMPS is very unusual -- for a public school. I'm sure there are public schools with twice the success getting kids into CHYMPS, but I'm only guessing there. I think there are a couple of schools in the Palo Alto area of CA that might be that way. This thread shows there are plenty of schools that do no matriculate a single student into CHYMPS.</p>
<p>Can I brag too? 18 to Penn, ~96% going on to four year schools. Public school.</p>
<p>yay.</p>
<p>I don't think we've ever sent anyone to an Ivy, or if anyone has even been accepted to one.</p>
<p>I don't consider this a brag thread. To me it's just a demographic report with a count of how many kids are going which colleges. </p>
<p>The college groupings are a little flawed, but not so bad that the OP needs to tarred and feathered by all of us. </p>
<p>I agree with the PP who said there's value in gaining a perspective.</p>