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<p>Full need-based grant, you mean? Or outside scholarship(s) that amounted to the full cost of attendance? There is no such thing as a “full ride” at any Ivy League school. They don’t give merit or athletic scholarships. Yet there’s someone in every thread who says, “I know so-and-so who got a FULL RIDE to [Ivy League school].” Well, sorry, no you don’t.</p>
<p>the #1 in my son’s class went to Harvard, but he was accepted to Yale, Columbia, Stanford, and everywhere else on the planet. The year before was Wharton - she also got in everywhere. His school is a public and sends two or three to iveys every year. We even have one at Juilliard.</p>
<p>My school technically doesn’t rank but the “val” last year got into all the Ivies, Stanford, MIT, and UC Berkeley (we’re in CA). He’s going to Harvard now. -_- He is just a really really big overachiever. Usually we just send 10-15ish people to ivies.</p>
<p>My school’s val from last year is at JHU. The val from the year before is at Harvard and this year’s val has his heart set on Stanford.</p>
<p>Post 1041:
Most people I know refer to full need-based FA as “full ride.” By that, they mean (usuallly) zero EFC at a well-endowed Elite with the funds for that, or a public with the funds for that.
Just my experience with this.</p>
<p>Last year, we had 2 valedictorians: one went to Yale, the other to UChicago. Our saludatorian went to Princeton.</p>
<p>Last year’s valedictorian (Class of 2009) is now at Dartmouth.</p>
<p>our 2009 val went to UChicago. i dont know all the schools he applied to but he got accepted to American U and waitlisted at harvard, which has strange because he’s a genius pretty much. One sal went to notre dame, and he got waitlisted a some ivies, and got into chicago. the other sal went to hillsdale college, which seems to be the trend among a great deal of our students. class of 08 val went to UNC chapel hill, and the sals went to u of dallas and hillsdale for sports.</p>
<p>Our past three vals…</p>
<p>University of Richmond
Cornell University
Virginia Commonwealth</p>
<p>There’s a mixture of schools the vals and salutatorians went to over the past few years (my school is in the midwest): UCHicago, Notre Dame, UIllinois, Northwestern, Rose-Hulman, St.Xavier (local school on the southwest side of CHicago that gave nice scholarships), the local junior college (the val was accepted to Harvard, but due to financial constraints opted for this -_- ).</p>
<p>2009 - ED Columbia
2008 - EA Yale, didn’t apply anywhere else</p>
<p>I graduated in 2008 and my Valedictorian didn’t even show up to graduation lol. She got accepted to some school in Germany that I can’t pronounce the name of.</p>
<p>UPenn early decision.</p>
<p>2008 - Val - Columbia
Sal - Brown</p>
<p>2009 - Val - Harvard
Sal - Wharton</p>
<p>2007 - This one was a golden year. Accepted at all 15 colleges he applied to (keep in mind that he had near perfect credentials, one of which included placing at ISEF Science Fair)</p>
<p>MIT
Stanford
Harvard
Princeton
Yale
CalTech
UC Berkeley
Georgia Tech
Brown
Dartmouth
Cornell
UPenn
Duke
Columbia
USC Columbia/Clemson - don’t remember</p>
<p>He ended up going to MIT.</p>
<p>2008 - Accepted at WashU, UNC-CH, and some otheres. Went to WashU.
2009 - Accepted at UVA and several other schools, but decided to go to USC Columbia with full ride.</p>
<p>nluu- 15 top colleges… that’s amazing!</p>
<p>Last year’s val at my school went to Georgetown. (He was waitlisted then got accepted.)
Sal went to Brown.</p>
<p>my brother was the valedictorian last year. he got rejected from stanford ED but went to princeton.</p>
<p>Interesting thread. I graduated high school in 2003; here’s the valedictorian/salutatorian college decisions that I remember:</p>
<p>2001:
Valedictorian: Notre Dame
Salutatorian: Williams</p>
<p>2002:
Valedictorian: Penn
Salutatorian: Stanford</p>
<p>2003:
Valedictorian: Harvard
Salutatorian: Georgetown</p>
<p>2004:
Valedictorian: Notre Dame
Salutatorian: USC</p>
<p>Val in the class ahead of mine of about 26, the first actual class of our brand new public school (Although they were only there for 3 years). High gpa, kinda low 1700s SAT, turned down UC Berkeley for UC Santa Cruz.</p>
<p>You know what’s sick?
My high school is so competitive, that each year we have 20-25 valedictorians.
20-25 people who ALL have perfect grades.
I have a 3.845 and the bottom of the 1st quarter. .__.
Most just go to University of Texas since they automatically get accepted b/c of the State of Texas Top 10 rule. Like 1 or 2 to Rice University. It…ridiculous. Everyone just gets pushed down b/c of all the #1’s. =/</p>