Top Feeder Schools

Colleges & Universities The University of Texas at Austin
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<p><a href=“http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/2008TexasFeeders.pdf[/url]”>http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/2008TexasFeeders.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Of all the schools in Texas, only 8 sent fifty or more graduates to UT last year. Of these, 7 are large 5A high schools, and one is a large 4A high school. Surprisingly, the 4A school had more students, 72, than any of the 5A schools, though which school it is shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone: it’s Highland Park (who would’ve guessed?).</p>

<p>The other seven schools are San Antonio Reagan, Plano, Plano West, Houston Bellaire, Austin Westlake, Austin Anderson, and Austin Westwood (RRISD).</p>

<p>Almost all of the Austin schools had higher rates than other schools of their size and demographics, which shows you how much people love Austin.</p>

<p>An additional 44 schools sent twenty-five or more graduates from their 2008 class to UT. Houston Kinkaid, a school with around 110 graduates each year, makes the list with 25 kids, which I believe is by far the highest percentage of any school with more than 10 or so graduates. Kinkaid would be a small 3A school were they in the UIL. The only other school even in 4A that makes this list is Austin Lake Travis. All the other ones are the standard suburban public schools with 2000+ kids.</p>

<p>One other school that deserves mention, even though they sent only 12 graduates to UT, is Epsicopal School of Dallas. Considering the fact that they have 90 kids per grade roughly, that number is definitely impressive.</p>

<p>Some of the schools which might be thought of as major “Feeder Schools” for UT don’t make the list of having 25 or more grads enter UT, but these are the smaller feeder schools, and schools that are usually mentioned as being big feeder schools do get a high percentage of their grads into UT compared to the rest of the state.</p>

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<p>Interesting that St. Andrew’s high school, only open since 2001 and a senior class of 80, sent 8 kids…the most of any private school in Austin.</p>

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<p>Yeah, but I believe they are already larger than St Stephen’s and almost as large as St Michael’s.</p>

<p>I did think it was really interesting that just about every school in Austin had a very high rate of kids going to UT–Anderson in particular. They had just about 10% of grads go to UT, and while it isn’t a bad school, it isn’t one of the “top schools in Texas” that you would expect get lots of kids in.</p>

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<p>My school’s in there :D</p>

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<p>Oh wow my school, Klein High School, sent 31 kids to UT. interesting… we had 84 top 10% kids.</p>

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<p>Only eight from mine. Haha, pretty much expected since they all go to A&M. xD</p>

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<p>I was going to mention the A&M thing too, because at our school, when you take out the people who choose places like Penn, Vandy, Duke, etc. about 1/2 the top 10%ers choose UT, about 1/2 choose A&M. A&M is really popular at our school for some reason. We don’t have farmers, so I don’t know what it is ;). (haha - just kidding Aggies!!)</p>

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<p>Eh, there are too many O&G jobs in Houston for just UT to take care of…they have to give the Aggies a few of them!</p>

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<p>haha wow Plano West sent 71 and its top 10% had 90 something</p>

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<p>16 from my school, Richardson High</p>

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<p>Plano West’s top ten had over a hundred.</p>

<p>And of course not all of the top ten percent of a high school is going to go to UT. Kids will choose Harvard, Stanford, MIT, etc…and even a few might choose TAMU or another public school.</p>