College Admission Number from Top High School

Applying to College
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<p>The following is admission number and enrollment number from a top high school.</p>

<p>The first column is admission year. The second column is number of applicants from a high school. The third column is number of admitted students from a high school. The fourth column is number of enrolled students from a high school</p>

<p>YEAR APPLICANTS ADMITTED ENROLLED</p>

<p>From Gunn High School (Palo Alto, CA) to stanford
2010 134 13 14
2009 115 25 20
2008 99 23 19
2007 95 20 17
2006 110 22 14</p>

<p>From Gunn High School (Palo Alto, CA) to harvard
2010 51 2 2
2009 40 3 1
2008 39 1 1
2007 24 3 2
2006 44 3 3</p>

<p>From Gunn High School (Palo Alto, CA) to princeton
2010 46 2 2
2009 50 3 1
2008 35 4 2
2007 32 6 2
2006 34 2 1</p>

<p>From Gunn High School (Palo Alto, CA) to yale
2010 44 2 1
2009 44 3 3
2008 37 4 1
2007 32 3 2
2006 48 3 2</p>

<p>From Gunn High School (Palo Alto, CA) to caltech
2010 21 3 1
2009 20 1 1
2008 5 1 1
2007 10 1 0
2006 5 2 0</p>

<p>From Gunn High School (Palo Alto, CA) to mit
2010 38 6 3
2009 27 4 3
2008 14 4 1
2007 21 3 1
2006 15 3 0</p>

<p>Can anyone please post numbers from the following high schools to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, CalTech, MIT:</p>

<p>Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto, CA
Saratoga High School in Saratoga, CA
Lynbrook High School in San Jose, CA
Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, CA
Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, CA</p>

<p>Thank you.</p>

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<p>Where / how did you get those statistics?</p>

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<p>The stats for HYP are quite… abysmal.</p>

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<p>Those stats would be private information. I doubt that they are intended for public consumption. You’re asking for others to pry that info from other schools? Yer nuts.</p>

<p>If someone in the school gave that to you, I hope he/she gets fired.</p>

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<p>“Private Information”? Not necessarily true.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.pvpusd.k12.ca.us/penhi/collegeacceptance/collegeacceptance.html[/url]”>http://www.pvpusd.k12.ca.us/penhi/collegeacceptance/collegeacceptance.html&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>I found the site above truely helpful in giving ne insights on just “the numbers”.</p>

<p>Note that the link is to the high school itself!!!</p>

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<p>It appears in 2010 that someone ignored whether they were accepted or not and forced themselves into Stanford anyways. :)</p>

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<p>All of this is available via Naviance. But what is not shown there is who was hooked. As you can see by Gunn’s results, the vast difference between acceptances between Stanford and it’s peer schools in hooked candidates. Gunn is in Stanford’s backyard and is filled with staff kids, legacies and athletes known to Stanford coaches.</p>

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<p>“Those stats would be private information.”</p>

<p>My high school publishes them in the school newspaper every year.</p>

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<p>We live near Stanford and have a lot of friends who are staffs or professors in Standford, Stanfornd Hospital and their affiliates. The kids of “Staff” do not get ANY prefernecial treatment and most of them do not go to Stanford. Legacy and Athletes maybe, but not “Staff”… Gunn is a great school and ppl over there prefer to goto Stanford, that is all.</p>

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<p>I live near Stanford too and trust me, many staff kids are there who would not otherwise be. Granted most I know are children of very key staff, and I would agree that the average prof’s kid isn’t getting in unless fully qualified, but don’t be fooled, like everywhere else, the kids of influential people get in if marginally qualified.</p>

<p>You think Stanford is taking 13 kids from Gunn because they need more kids from PA?</p>

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<p>lol @ use of Naviance</p>

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<p>katytx-
I tried to reply to a PM from you and it CC won’t let me. Maybe check your settings? Otherwise, I don’t know what’s going on. Didn’t know how else to let you know.</p>

<p>bovertine</p>

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<p>Regarding the 2010 admit being one less the attended, this may be due to a student that was originally wait listed. If the admit number reflects a number through April, and was not adjusted for any wait listed students who were eventually made offers, this is possible. In this case it is sloppy statistics.</p>

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<p>This is good data. Does anyone have similar data from Palo Alto High School?</p>

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<p>The argument that since Stanford is in Palo Alto that a significant number of acceptances are children of Stanford faculty and staff is not as convincing as it would be regarding Ithaca for Cornell. Palo Alto is in the midst of a large highly educated metropolis. It is home to many Silicon Valley executives, and high-level engineers. The demographics are the more likely reason, and also the propensity of many Californians to apply in California for college, and the small number of academic private schools in the area. I would expect to see similar statistics for public high schools in Cupertino, Saratoga, and Los Gatos. These are communities with similar demographics.</p>

<p>What is especially interesting is that the acceptance rate for 2010 to Stanford if far lower than in 2009 and in previous years. Stanford is becoming even more selective!</p>

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<p>The discrepancy might also be due to someone having taken a gap year before going to Stanford.</p>

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Saw these acceptance numbers for Palo Alto HS on their website

Year '12 '13 '14 '15
Harvard 5 2 5 1
Yale 2 2 2 1
Princeton 4 1 1 3
Stanford 9 13 13 12
MIT 2 0 2 3