<p>I looked up all the prep schools that I knew people had attended and found it quite interesting. I understand this is a rough guesstimate and that large comprehensive high school’s like my towns will never make the list. (Our SAT scores are very average, but there is a contingent at the top that must be doing well, because the top 25 kids - GPA wise - are nearly all going to top 25 schools.) One school I’d always been curious about was St. Anselm’s Abbey a school in DC I’d never heard of until my brother’s best friend attended. Their scores were higher than most (all?) of the other DC prep schools - with the exception of National Cathedral. I guess his parents knew something I didn’t! :)</p>
<p>^No one in DC has heard of St.Anselm’s Abbey either.</p>
<p>And most of the prep schools in DC, notably with the exception of NCS, do NOT report their college lists or average scores each year. So the data is actually a bit misleading.</p>
<p>I’m from DC originally, hence my comment. :)</p>
<p>As for other DC area school, I know Madeira is very cagey about their numbers, and I attended so you might think I’d have inside info, but since all the big New England prep schools went co-ed their numbers for the top schools plummeted. In my class of 80 - 8 went to Harvard, 6 to Yale, 2 to Princeton. Now at best it’s one or two a year. There numbers don’t come close to National Cathedral’s I’m sure.</p>
<p>(Mind you this is partly because of Miss Madeira’s original philosophy that she would take a good contingent of B students and improve them with her wonderful education.)</p>
<p>Yes, papa chicken. Using your data, I’ve been arguing with another poster about whether or not her daughter was an unhooked admit to HYP–what I call a ‘virgin’ admit (doesn’t exist in my reality). My argument is that she is geographically remote and doesn’t know it, haha.</p>
<p>Pembroke Hill fights WAAAY above it’s weight when you consider the tiny size of KC (1.4M) and the lack of major universities.</p>