Ivy League Feeder Schools

davida1 · 07-07-2008, 05:30 AM

I'm doing research on what the largest private Ivy League feeder schools are...If you went to a school that sent a large percentage of students to Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale, please post it here or if you know of schools that send large percentages to the ancient eight that are less known, please post them here also. I'd appreciate all of the responses I can get for my research. Again, ONLY private high schools and please if you know some schools that are large Ivy League feeders but less known, I'd appreciate those the most. In other words, posting Andover/Exeter/Horace Mann will not be as helpful because they are obvious choices.

I appreciate the help!

P.S. This can also be a thread discussing Ivy League feeder schools in general...

GiggitusMaximus · 07-07-2008, 05:34 AM

Raffles Junior College in Singapore has been called the "Gateway to the Ivy League"
Feeder schools for their grad programs are top schools I'm assuming.

3365 · 07-07-2008, 05:35 AM

that korean high school in south korea, Minjok

GoBlue81 · 07-07-2008, 07:01 AM

The following WSJ article may be of interest - WSJ.com

It ranks the top feeder high schools to eight most selective colleges - Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, Chicago and JHU.

The complete WSJ article - How to Get Into Harvard - WSJ.com

palmettotree · 07-07-2008, 09:23 AM

Woodberry Forest

Burb Parent · 07-07-2008, 10:18 AM

There is a service that sells this information. I think it's called prepreview, and if my memory is correct it includes MIT + Stanford. Sometimes the information is posted on the Prep School Admissions board. From year to year, the independent schools that make the bottom half of the list vary. I believe it ends at 10%, and many independent schools get 10% in one year but 8% the next. One year, they might have an exceptional class graduate.

If you can, it would be good to include several years of matriculation in your study to rule out these year-to-year variations.

little_galaxie · 07-07-2008, 07:58 PM

That WSJ article is whack.

ParentOfIvyHope · 07-07-2008, 08:12 PM

The article make sense as the school listed are really good private high schools

DHRBC07 · 07-07-2008, 08:15 PM

I went to a prep school in Philadelphia that regularly sends 10-14 kids to Penn (about 10% of the class) per year. Another 25% attend the other ivys not to mention Stanford, NOrthwestern, Duke, etc.

little_galaxie · 07-07-2008, 08:17 PM

Yeah, they're all good schools, but the colleges they selected - Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, Chicago and JHU - seems a bit random to me. Why only survey the results at 8 schools? If we're going for selective here, why not add Yale, Amherst, Columbia, Brown, Caltech, etc. etc. etc.? Doesn't seem like a thorough assessment to me.

teenage_cliche · 07-07-2008, 08:21 PM

Why are you only interested in private schools?

chicagoboy12 · 07-07-2008, 08:22 PM

Phillips Exeter, Andover

TheIndividual · 07-07-2008, 09:08 PM

the Lawrenceville School, Choate Rosemary, and TJHSST to name a few

rsamp2008 · 07-07-2008, 09:25 PM

norfolk academy...or thomas jeffersson science and tech

GoBlue81 · 07-07-2008, 09:28 PM

Quote:

Why only survey the results at 8 schools? If we're going for selective here, why not add Yale, Amherst, Columbia, Brown, Caltech, etc. etc. etc.? Doesn't seem like a thorough assessment to me.

"For our survey, we chose eight colleges with an average admissions selectivity of 18% and whose accepted applicants had reading and math SAT scores in the 1350-1450 range, according to the College Board: Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins. Some colleges that would otherwise have met our criteria were excluded from our study because information on their students' high-school alma maters was unavailable."