I know that most high school students typically attend either their in-state flagship or another in-state university nearby, but I know that this isn’t always the case for every high school. I know that for my high school, a large portion (about a third of the students I talked to) plan to go the University of Minnesota, despite living on the far eastern edge of Wisconsin, where most would appear to prefer Wisconsin-Madison. Is your school a feeder school? Is there a private school or out-of-state public school that students seem to prefer over their local universities?
Our kids private school sends quite a few kids to St. Olaf. One year there was a cluster to Drake. But percentagewise, St. O consistently seems to be the top school.
Usually the kids in my schools magnet program go to FSU or USF while the traditional students just go to the local community college.
UTK.
It’s weird here.
We live in the IA/IL border and my kids go to school on the IL side.
If kids were to go to a state flagship school, then it would be Univ of Iowa rather than UIUC even though they would pay OOS tuition.
Iowa is about an hour away and UIUC is about 4 hours away. Even then, I think the academics are better at UIUC.
My D, I think, is the only one in her group of friends to put in an app for UIUC.
A majority of students at my school go to our local community college. We are a poor school, however. A good chunk do go to CSU’s/UC’s and very very few go to top ranked private with only one Stanford in the last 10 years (no Ivy in that time, either).
The smart kids with good grades usually go to a UC - particularly San Diego or Berkeley.
the local CC
Around 90%+ Apply and are accepted to the local state school Rutgers. A couple attend. Around 15% ish go to an ivy (it’s a competitive school) I have never heard of anyone going to CC right out of highschool but a few go to a college outside the country. Duke and Cornell are very popular schools here even though I’m in nj
Top colleges we feed to:
East Carolina University
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Appalachian State University
Some students go to NC State and UNC Chapel Hill…maybe Duke.
Popular schools for the top students:
University of Michigan – about 12-15 each year
WashU – about 9-12 each year
Cornell – about 8-10 each year
Popular schools for top-middle students:
University of Maryland
Elon
Lehigh
Penn State
Popular schools for bottom-middle students:
Rutgers
University of Delaware
University of Pittsburgh
For the top students it’s usually UIUC. For others it can be, UW-Madison, Iowa, Illinois State, and Minnesota. There are some top students that go to Northwestern, an Ivy, UChicago or another top school
Most students here feed into CSU Long Beach or UCLA, or UC Santa Barbara for the upper tier students. We actually send a noticeable amount of students to USC, but mostly water polo players.
UCLA, Berkeley, UCSD. I think 40 or 50 got into Berkeley (40 from the magnet and a bunch of others that were not) It seemed like everyone I knew when to Berkeley lol
Our school district has an agreement with Cal State Long Beach for guaranteed admission if a student fufills minimum requirements. We also have an agreement with Long Beach City College for a free year. Needless to say, most students stay in Long Beach. The high school that my son attends sent a handful to UC Berkeley last year as well as Cal Poly SLO and a few other CSUs and UCs. My kid is one of the only kids he knows who is applying to private SLACs.
UCs, particularly Berkeley (between 40 and 60 go there every year).
My school sends the majority of kids to UIUC, UW-Madison, Michigan, and Northwestern. However, there is an extremely wide variety, and these barely scratch the surface.
My son’s HS has the majority of students attending Cal Poly Pomona, CSU Fullerton, UC Riverside, Cal Poly SLO and CC’s like Mt Sac, Chaffey and Citrus College. I would say around 30-40 students will attend the other UC’s besides Riverside. 1-3 students are accepted into top schools such as Stanford, Harvard, Cornell, Columbia. Most of the top Athletes end up in OOS schools.
The most popular are probably UMass,UVM,Boston College,Boston University and Tufts.
Majority go to the state flagship.
Aside from the local community college, a lot of them go to Sac State or UC Davis.