<p>There are at least 3 other S.F. schools besides UHS that regularly send students to top-tier schools; naturally, the numbers vary depending on the strength of any graduating class. All those 3 schools are pricey (above 20K). There’s at least one school in the East Bay, one on the upper Peninsula & one on the lower Peninsula that have similar strong admissions histories. These schools are similarly pricey.</p>
<p>High-rent publics often excel over moderately priced Catholic schools when it comes to college admissions. Some of the latter have better curriculum reputations than others; some are essentially not even on the map for East Coast schools, let alone Ivies. The vast majority of students in most of them apply either to West Coast colleges or to Jesuit or other Catholic U’s & colleges anywhere in the country. There is an occasional top-tier acceptance from these.</p>
<p>High-rent publics generally do not do quite as well as the pricey privates, but my sense is that it is more due to size of those publics & consequent schedule of the GC’s, etc., than it is due to quality of the curricula & students. The student bodies of the “exclusive” publics & the pricey privates are similar.</p>