<p>I think top tier acceptances are one of the best ways actually, because ivys and other top schools use hollistic approaches to admissions so they are essentially giving a comprehensive evaluation of the kids your school is pumping out. Take my inner city public school for example, we have poor funding and not the greatest test averages (like 10th in the state) but we send more kids to top schools each year because of the environment our school provides/healthy balance of competitition/cooperation --these are the things that count, and they would be very hard to measure in any other way.</p>