<p>Wow lobos, your school is really good!</p>
<p>loslobos71,
is your school somewhere close to Philadelphia? I have never seen a school where UPenn is the number 2 pick overall in a senior class.</p>
<p>Yup. 'Burbs of Philly. Public btw.
Also, that’s about half the grade. I think we have another one or two to Swarthmore, another to Dartmouth. Penn State, Pitt and Temple are the top 3 every year. Penn is probably 4th.</p>
<p>Haha thanks chocolatelover03 and ncody0220 =]</p>
<p>there’s one kid in my school who got accepted to london school of economics, cambridge/oxford, princeton, caltech, brown, and some others I don’t remember. all I heard he was confused which one to choose
in the end he chose princeton cause he got a scholarship there, but he can’t start until fall 2009, because he has military obligation for his country…</p>
<p>but basically there’s always people from my school who go to the ivy league. lately I think there’s an increase in people going to liberal art colleges.
there’s a bulk (most 12) of alumni thou in UBC, U. Illinois, Berkeley, Purdue, U. Michigan, and U. Wisconsin-Madison.
plus we’re an international school so some people go as far as argentina, and loads to europe too.</p>
<p>I’d just like to note that NO ONE in my school who is white got into an Elite school, let alone an Ivy League. Anybody who got into an Ivy was a URM or Asian. </p>
<p>But I must say, this class of 2007 has gotten some nice acceptances, which is relatively rare for my school.</p>
<p>Harvard: 3
Columbia: I know one person definitely got in through EA, and I’m sure more people got in for RD.
Princeton: 2
Brown: 3
UPenn: 3
Cornell: 6
MIT: 1
Cooper Union: 2</p>
<p>No Yale people this year…but the weirdest people got in. This one guy (URM) with a 2080 and no significant extra cirriculars got into Harvard. This asian girl got into Harvard with about a 2100ish but was rejected by Columbia. </p>
<p>Last year my friend got accepted into Harvard but was rejected by NYU! WEIRD!!</p>
<p>We had some pretty qualified people get rejected by Ivies. A friend of mine is first doubles on the tennis team (PA State champs four years running I believe), a musician, has near a 5.0 (school goes up to 5.0) and 2100+ SATs. He’s going to Northwestern because he didnt get into Yale SCEA.</p>
<p>ugh, weird admissions, they give me the creeps. i hate it when someone who seems well qualified gets rejected while an okay student gets in through connection, money, or somethin like that</p>
<p>my school has never sent anyone to an ivy. the highest we get is rice. and i think someone got into vassar, too.</p>
<p>Nobody here goes anywhere. It seems like everyone talks of going out-of-state as freshies and settle for the state univ. 3 years later.</p>
<p>I got into Vassar, Georgetown, and NYU (among a couple others) and waitlisted by UChicago. (valedictorian) </p>
<p>We have one person going to Syracuse, two to NYU (not me - I’m going to Vassar! Yay!), another Vassarite with me, one to Johns Hopkins (junior graduating early, too, which is cool) and… well, not much else in the way of fancy-pants schools. However, as a performing arts school, we can take pride in three to CCM, three to Roosevelt, two to Boston Conservatory, one to Marymount Manhattan, one to Hartt, one to Ailey/Fordham BFA program, among others.</p>
<p>What’s the definition of “elite,” anyway?</p>
<p>I hate all this loosey-goosey terminology on this site. Is elite what USNWR says it is, or is it some other metric?</p>
<p>Bah.</p>
<p>Canadian IB school, ~150 kids in class:</p>
<p>2 Harvard
3 Yale
2 Princeton
3 Columbia
2 UPenn
1 Brown
2 Cornell</p>
<p>No one is going to a non-Ivy elite (no MIT, no Stanford, no Caltech - though one person, me, was accepted at the last, no one else was at any of the three).</p>
<p>Keep in mind as well that most students at the school never consider a US college, as the Canadian university system is good, and cheap for citizens. If everyone applied to US colleges like in a US school, the numbers would likely be higher.</p>
<p>LAst year, my school’s val went to Johns Hopkins, dropping out about a month later. lol. Everyone else went to less-than-elite schools, with the slight exception of one to Holy Cross.</p>
<p>This year, however, we’ve got 2 to Williams, 1 to Brown and 1 to Brandeis. Also another to Holy Cross. It’s a small school, about 100 kids in the graduating class. We did mediocre I guess.</p>
<p>I guess my school did okay overall matriculation-wise considering how small it is… not as good as last year though (that was “year of the Ivies” at my school). Three are going to do a year thirteen, one’s taking a year off due to legal issues, and the rest are going to the following colleges…</p>
<p>Dartmouth College 2 (1 legacy, 1 board of trustees connection)
University of Pennsylvania (board of trustees connection)</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University
Stanford University (recruited for tennis)
Tufts University
University of Michigan (recruited for basketball)
Wake Forest University (board of trustees connection)</p>
<p>Amherst College (legacy)
Bates College (recruited for soccer)
Carleton College
Colgate University 2 (1 recruited for cross country, 1 co-valedictorian)
Davidson College
Swarthmore College
Vassar College (co-valedictorian)</p>
<p>Belmont University
Bentley College 2
Boston University 4
Bryn Mawr College
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Catholic University of America
Dickinson College 2
Emerson College
Franklin & Marshall College 2
Hampshire College
Hofstra College
Ithaca College 4
Nova Southeastern University (recruited for baseball)
Ohio Wesleyan University 2
Skidmore College (recruited for lacrosse)
St. Lawrence University
Tulane University
Union College 2 (1 recruited for baseball & soccer)
University of Colorado, Boulder 3
University of Connecticut
University of Miami
University of Rhode Island
University of Rochester
Virginia Tech
Western Connecticut State University
Western New England College</p>
<p>In Georgia these days, relatively few students go out of state. The state’s HOPE Grant, funded by the state lottery, gives full tuition and fees at any state university to anyone who graduates HS with a 3.0 or better. Most of the students who would’ve gone “elite” in the past attend in-state publics now.</p>
<p>just me to williams…the valedictorian went to…FROSTBURG STATE :O</p>
<p>well… my school is 97% URM. you’d think we could’ve done better.</p>
<p>This year, only one person in my graduating class is going to an “elite” college (Swarthmore). Several others, including myself, got into elite schools but decided to go to state schools because they’re cheaper.</p>
<p>It’s the same at our school, and in our small class there were at least a half dozen people with outstanding grades, a good number of APs and extracurriculars, and SAT scores that were 2350+. It is just SO hard to get into the “elite schools.” You shouldn’t count on anything. Trust me–a perfect score on the SAT and a crapload of other qualifications STILL doesn’t guarantee you acceptance to an Ivy. It happened to me. But don’t get me wrong, you are not doomed to fail…you will still succeed even if you have to go to a college that isn’t HYPS.</p>
<p>Looks like I have to come down to earth, to my senses. My son (2350 SAT) has 5s in all APs taken so far (5), highest gpa in school and toughest load ever taken (incl 2 languages to post AP). I was under the impression he would be a shoo in at HYP. Got rejected. Got in UPenn, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth , Duke. I was mad at the college counselor. Three kids from his school, a private prep school in a very rich community, got into Ivies, but only 1 offer each, UPenn, Brown and Cornell. So, from these posts, my S must count himself fortunate, eh. This year has been very very tough. How do you guys rate Columbia? Thanks.</p>