<p>addchang: I’m sure your school is an excellent institution, where most students are college bound. However, the schools mentioned in the WSJ article are selective – you need to test into them to be admitted, so basically those schools are stacked with “type-A-overachievers,” so the odds of those schools having more Ivy League acceptances will be greater than most other excellent institutions. For example: see: <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant_High_School[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant_High_School</a> – “Each year, about 26,000 of New York City’s eighth-graders sit for the test [to get into Stuyvesant].”</p>