<p>Most people end up at NC State, USC, UGA, App State, or UNC-Wilmington. And then pretty much the entire top 5% of the class go to Chapel Hill.</p>
<p>I attend a large (around 3000 students) public school in Southern California. I live in mostly middle class area, but there are a significant amount of lower income families, and some upper/upper middle class families. These are very rough estimates since my school doesn’t publish on stats on where students attend. The colleges I list as examples are schools I can remember that students at my school are attending that fit into each category.</p>
<p>15% don’t attend any school after graduating. Some join the military, some go straight into the work force (retail, family business, etc.), and some don’t have any plans.</p>
<p>30% attend one of the local community colleges. A few actually enroll at more than one if they are trying to transfer quickly since it is so difficult to get classes and there are a few CC’s in my area that are close enough to each other where they can commute to both. Many students in this group plan to transfer to a CSU or UC, but I’m not sure how many actually do.</p>
<p>25% attend a Cal State school. Most of them attend our local CSU since they can easily commute there. CSULB, Fullerton, Cal Poly Pomona, SDSU, and Cal Poly SLO seem to be other popular choices.</p>
<p>20% attend the mid and lower tier UC schools (all excluding UCLA and Cal) and comparable, but maybe less well known, in-state private schools like LMU, Chapman, Occidental, and Pepperdine. A small amount attend comparable OOS schools.</p>
<p>10% attend upper tier schools. Most of them are go to UCLA, UC Berkeley, and USC or other in-state privates. Some attend comparable OOS schools like NYU, CMU, and Case. The rest (probably <3%, 15-or-so students out of almost 700) attend ivy/ivy-caliber privates like Stanford, Duke, Harvard, Princeton, UPenn, Brown, Vandy, JHU, etc.</p>
<p>In an attempt to sum it all up:
Most college-bound students stay in-state and attend a CC, CSU, or UC. I guess it’s because CA has a good public school system. There is a pretty big separation at my school between the Honors/AP students and the rest of the school since almost all of our classes are separate. Out of this group, most attend UCs, while some attend in-state and OOS privates. Every year we have students attend top 20 schools, but it’s only the “tippy-top” students.</p>
<p>Large HS in NOVA:</p>
<p>Top 1 - 2% or so – Stanford, Brown, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Duke </p>
<p>Top 15%: UVA or W&M</p>
<p>Most of rest – James Madison, George Mason, U of Richmond, Md, other Va publics or little known LACs </p>
<p>Last 10% NVCC (community college)</p>
<p>I go to a private school, people here apply all over the place. Every year we send people to all of the top schools (HYP etc etc), some go abroad to places like London Business School, ETH Zurich, University of Tokyo, others go to local state schools or small private colleges. We have a good variety.</p>
<p>Hmm my school being based in indiana mean that some would go to a Purdue school or an IU school. A large portion go to the near IUN (Which is like close and cheap). But I say the top of the class would be looking at ivies, Purdue-Main campus and IUB (Indiana university Bloomington)</p>
<p>I go to a large high school, my graduation class is 900 students but it’s also ranked as one of the top public high schools in my state. Almost everyone goes to either the our state university that is one town over University of Nebraska in Lincoln or Indiana State or Iowa state or University of Minnesota. A few will go to an ivy league and about 30 will go to New York. I am the first from my high school to go to Hamline.</p>