How does the high school you attend impact admission?

Data10
Sun, 22 May 2022 17:13:55 +0000

AlwaysMoving:

The best feeders to top schools are in college towns. These HS tend to have a lot of parents that focus on academics, top math/science classes, and plenty of ECs like research and internships connected to the college.

Do you mean like Gunn (in Palo Alto) or Palo Alto High for Stanford? At such high schools, you need to also consider that an abnormally large portion of students apply to selective colleges, particularly to the one(s) nearby. For the nearby college(s), they also have a noteworthy number of parents are connected to the college such as legacies or children of faculty/staff. College towns with best “feeders” usually also have a high concentration of wealthy families. When you control for additional factors like these, the high schools may no longer appear to be the best “feeders.”