<p>Townsend Harris sends 2 to 4 in any given year. The student body is about 250.</p>
<p>lols screw the other specialized high shcools QHSSYC will be on the top as the cut off score incrreases every year but yeah i think out of public schools stuy would have the highest but doesnt stuy have like the most poeple................</p>
<p>I heard that 22% of Roxbury Latin's class were accepted early at Harvard this year. (11 of 50)</p>
<p>Bronx Science sends about 2 to 4 every year with a class of about 700. My friend from Stuy told me that Stuyvesant reached an all-time low last year (Class of 2009 for Harvard) with 9 kids, but it went back up to 15 (according to the poster above). Stuy has had historically 20+ kids every year; seems like it's not so anymore. As for Hunter, it has always been strong with minimum 10 kids to Harvard every year, which is admirable given its small school size.</p>
<p>Where do BB&N and Horace Mann fall?</p>
<p>bottom line though, Stuy is the best high school in the world, in my opinion, and numbers really dont matter, as a lot of kids who get in from hunter, stuy and especially bronx sci have dual legacy and wealthy jewish parents.</p>
<p>"dual legacy and wealthy jewish parents" unfortunately mean extremely little in admission to harvard</p>
<p>I thought Horace Mann sends more to Harvard and Yale in total compared to Stuyvesant? I saw a ranking and Horace Mann was #6 on feeders for ivy league or something like that. Maybe someone has that link.</p>
<p>You're correct. Here's the definitive link:</p>
<p>Horace Mann is ridiculous in the number of kids they send to H and Y. However, you must realize that a place like Horace Mann has a higher proportion of students who have some kind of additional hook (legacy, donations, etc.)</p>
<p>This has changed over time. One day while sick, I was in the infirmary at Exeter and decided to wander aroud a bit. I discovered old yearbooks. As late as the 70's, as you looked at each senior's picture, it had their college of choice underneath. All Ivies, every page, mostly Harvard, Yale, Princeton, a few others. The only exceptions were kids who lived in other college towns, and I would presume that this was because these were scholarship students or kids of professors at those schools, who could go for free or close to it.
When I went to Exeter, about half the class went Ivy. The year I was graduated, 15% of the class went to Harvard. 44 had applied, and 40 had gotten in. Contrary to the article that so many have cited, there was virtually no college prep advice. No test prep. No admissions counseling except "work hard and get good grades to get into the top fifth." Nothing. Certainly no one saw our applications but us. Many students complained that there was a reverse quota in effect, since the Ivies would only admit a certain percentage from Exeter. Additionally, they would have been valedictorian at the public school in their town. This is true in most cases. Furthermore, I've never met any alumnus/ae who said that any college or graduate program was as hard as Exeter was. Certainly the stats have gone down. But even then, I know that the Ivies wanted to create a sample that was representative of the population. Certainly they aimed for diversity of strengths in academic and non-academic areas, geographic diversity, racial and ethnic diversity. But they also wanted to make sure that since only 5% of the high schoolers in the country come from private schools, that only 5% of their admits would be from those schools.
Anyone know why fewer and fewer kids are getting in from private schools?
I'm hoping it's not grade inflation. We had to work our tails off to get B's, and there was no such thing as an easy class. Also, it didn't matter how smart you were, if you didn't do a lot of hard work, you wouldn't make it.</p>
<p>Just added HYP students for Private ones( 100 schools) my estimate about 3000 kids 4 yr
% wise 3000/( 4000X4)= 3000/16000=3/16= about 18%</p>
<p>Top 10 about 6%
t0p 50 about 12%
top 100 about 18%</p>
<p>school data has changed e.g. Spence( top 10 listed here)
2006 HYP: 3/39=8%
2005: HYP 7/51= 14% </p>
<p>In NJ where Millburn( Public/top 100 listed@ 4.6%) used to feed HYP.
2005 Millburn 2%( 3 prton 1 harvard), 2006 Ridge High(NJ);9/330=3%
So lanscape is changing. Ridge was listed as top NJ in Newsweek listing of top Public schools.</p>
<p>Even looking at Spence and Ridge recent data: Stanford is getting agressive: Top 5 kids at Ridge( 1 stanford, 1 Harvard, 1 Upenn, 1 Yale and 1 pton) Spence 2005 stanford 2/39.</p>
<p>My school (Milton) used to have their "graduate's weekend" before the school year ended in June. The graduates would wander around the campus, taking in the sights, and on the Friday of that week join students in certain of their classes during the academic day. My freshman year, this guy who had graduated--I don't remember exactly when, but certainly in the first half of this century--was in my geometry class, and he started talking to a number of us. He mentioned at one point that he had gone to Yale, and then, as if he needed to explain himself for this, told a story about how "the man from Harvard and the man from Yale came up and we all went to put our names down for the colleges, and everyone lined up to talk to the Harvard man, and I had a date with my girl friend and didn't want to wait in line, so I went and talked to the man from Yale instead."</p>
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<p>I've never met any alumnus/ae who said that any college or graduate program was as hard as Exeter was.</p>
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<p>This has been my experience as well, mainly because you take so many classes in so many different fields at one time, in contrast to college and graduate school. I happened to know the top three Exeter grads from my year (the general val and sal and the classics-program val); all three were summa at Harvard and one became a Rhodes scholar. If you can stand out like that at Exeter, nothing else is going to challenge you too much.</p>
<p>Except, prerhaps, people who stand out similarly at Andover :)</p>
<p>you are all forgetting Groton, who MORE THAN ANY OTHER BOARDING SCHOOLS, sends sometimes as much as 40% of their class to the Ivies, namely Harvard and Yale, both my cousins went there and both are at Harvard, its not as talked about as exeter and andover but do your research and you will see........</p>
<p>Byerly:</p>
<p>So if one can clearly stand out in prep school similar to Groton, SPS, Andover and Exeter, but they are poor and on full financial aid in one of these schools, they will be not be penalized for being poor and in need of financial aid.</p>
<p>i have a friend who was at roxbury latin and had grades that frankly would not have gotten in her at harvard from MY school, a top prep school in suburban NY but got her in from there........go figure. I guess the relationship is cozy over there, because i have heard of those with under 1340 getting in, drives some crazy!</p>