<p>Harvard 14
Yale 11
Princeton 11
Brown 4
Columbia 12
Penn 3
Dartmouth 7
Stanford 5
MIT 6</p>
<p>Total Senior Class Students= 288</p>
<p>Any students heading to Cornell to complete the Ivy+Stanford+MIT stat?</p>
<p>Was the class size about the same as usual ? Were there any underlying trends such as more seniors matriculating at state schools and smaller liberal arts colleges ? Seems that the top ten matriculation is about 15 percent lower than the last three years. Assuming about 5 for cornell, the top ten is 77 against the last three year average of 91</p>
<p>Sorry I did not realize Cornell was part of the matrix. There were 7 attending Cornell </p>
<p>Harvard 14
Yale 11
Princeton 11
Brown 4
Columbia 12
Penn 3
Dartmouth 7
Cornell 7
Stanford 5
MIT 6</p>
<p>Total Senior Class Students= 288</p>
<p>27.7% Ivy + SM matriculation rate. Isn’t it usually a bit higher?</p>
<p>Phillips Exeter Academy 2010 Matriculation from the Exonian Graduation Issue</p>
<p>American 2
Amherst 2
Arizona State Univ 1
Babson 1
Bates 3
Bentley 1
Boston College 5
Boston Univ 3
Bowdoin 2
Brandeis 2
Brigham young univ 1
Brown 4
Bryn Mawr College 1
Bucknell 2
Carleton 1
Carnegie Mellon 3
Claremont Mc Kenna College 3
Clemson 1
Colby 4
Colgate 4
Colorado College 1
Columbia 12
Cornell 7
Dartmouth 7
Davidson 3
Duke 2
Georgetown 9
George Washington Univ 4
Gordon 1
Hamilton 4
Harvard 14
Harvey Mudd College 1
Indiana Univ Bloomington 1
ITAM 1
Ithaca College 1
Johns Hopkins 4
Kenyon 1
Lehigh 1
Macalaster 1
Mc Gill 3
Miami Univ of Ohio 1
Middlebury 3
MIT 6
Mount Holyoke 1
Northeastern 1
NYU 6
Oberlin 2
Occidental 1
Pitzer 1
Pomona 3
Princeton 11
Providence College 1
Queens University 2
Reed 1
Rochester Institute of Tech 1
Scripps 1
Skidmore 1
St John’s College (MD) 1
Stanford 5
Stonehill 1
SUNY- Binghamton 1
SUNY- Genesco 1
Swarthmore 2
Syracuse 2
Trinity College in CT 4
Trinity College Dublin 1
Tufts 8
Tulane 1
UCLA 2
Union College (NY) 2
Univ of Aberdeen 1
Univ of Auckland 1
Univ of Chicago 4
Univ of Colorado Boulder 1
Univ of Conn 1
Univ of Denver 1
Univ of Iowa 1
Univ of Manchester 1
Univ of Maryland 1
Univ of Mary Washington 1
Univ of Massachusetts – Amherst 1
Univ of Michigan 7
Univ of New Hampshire 5
Univ of North Carolina- Chapel Hill 2
Univ of Penn 3
Univ of Rochester 1
Univ of So. California 5
Univ of Texas Austin 1
Univ of Toronto 1
Univ of Virginia 1
Univ of Washington 3
US Naval Academy 1
Vassar 2
Warren Wilson College 1
Washington Univ 2
Wayne State Univ 1
Wellesley 9
Wesleyan Univ 1
Williams 10
Worcester Poly Tech 2
Yale 11
Year off 8</p>
<p>I am posting this hoping people will analyze it for me- it took me awhile to compile this by hand so hopefully it is error free.</p>
<p>what would kids do with a year off? I know that the BSs often have public school kids do a gap year there, for various reasons, but when the Exonians take a year off, what do they do? Travel to Europe?</p>
<p>It actually lists it as “alternative year after PEA” </p>
<p>I don’t know what that means so I wrote year off. I think it may apply to athletes doing a PG year but I am not sure.</p>
<p>I know that some people in my family (I am european), and lots of other europeans, take a year off after high school to travel and find themselves. Many go to really good colleges a year later, including Oxford and Yale.</p>
<p>My husband and I will encourage our son to take a year after Exeter. At many top colleges, admissions can be deferred for a year.</p>
<p>Only one to Wesleyan and ten to Williams? Interesting numbers…</p>
<p>Unfortunately my son won’t have any money to take a year off to travel and find himself- not after we have been paying for Exeter for 4 years. If he did take a year off it would probably be to work or do a paid internship.</p>
<p>LOL at Kids taking a year off the “find themselves”.</p>
<p>Is it weird how that the most is 14 kids to Harvard? At my private school, the most is usually around 20+ people to one school and that’s the state school (University of Florida). I guess people don’t want to be around too many classmates after spending 4 years cooped up with them. :)</p>
<p>Wikipedia (the most reliable internet source) says that Exeter grads send the overall most people to Harvard, but I heard alot of people are waitlisted or rejected…must be rough.</p>
<p>I was completely broke between undergrad and grad school–lived at home and worked for 5 months, then travelled to New Zealand and Australia for two, came home completely broke again and worked for another 6 months to afford grad school. Anyone can do it (with kind parents who allow you to mooch food and bed for a few months 
) We also met lots of other kids our age while we were travelling who picked up jobs as they travelled to stay on the road for many more months than we did–really, when you’re young, the real expense of travel is the plane ticket. With a bike and a sleeping bag, you can travel for very little.</p>
<p>I’m a huge proponent of a gap year, redblue </p>
<p>My child worked the first six months (in a busy dive bar bussing tables and backing up the bartenders) and then used the money he earned to travel to South America with a friend: three months in the Patagonia in Chile working for a conservation foundation (physical labor - restoration of land), which was a totally amazing experience and then three months in Buenos Aires, which was more a long vacation than anything else. The best six months of his life, he says. Tons of crazy, wonderful, learning experiences, fluency in Spanish, maturity etc. The whole trip was planned by him and his buddy - not part of any organized tour or anything. It was one of the best decisions he and we ever made.</p>
<p>I wonder if the boarding schools discourage good students from taking gap years since it decreases their matriculation stats?</p>
<p>PA - you child applies and is admitted to college…then you defer for one year. I would never have consented otherwise. There is no impact on the BS college-admit stats.</p>
<p>Many of the Exonians taking a year off engage in service/volunteer projects. Exeter offers a few scholarships specifically to help kids pay for taking a year off to do something interesting (we also have a bunch of scholarships for kids going to college).</p>
<p>Interesting info- thanks Rebalangel and peateacher!</p>
<p>PEA teacher- are the scholarships need based or can anyone apply?</p>