Stonehill was popular in both my kids’ graduating classes, but they attended Catholic school so no surprise. I’m seeing a lot of posts lately with kids attending Endicott, both in CT where I live, but also in NH where I follow a few FB groups from where I grew up.
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There’s a pretty even split between the kids I know. Barrett Honors College and the engineering school both have great residential facilities so lots go there to live on campus. AZ kids already save big due to generous, predictable in-state scholarship funds. Most kids apply and get accepted in August, so I think the trickle to ASU became a wave when FAFSA uncertainty affected out of state financial packages. Lots of spring shifts to ASU.
Seemed pretty typical for our WI school, mostly staying in state, many doing trades or tech school, a couple of military. Those going out of state tend to go to U of Iowa or Iowa State but nothing new there. There is usually maybe 1 or 2 kids who end up a top schools or an Ivy (I think we had 1 to Harvard this year and 1 already committed for 2025 for sports).
U of Nebraska is growing in popularity here as is Winona State in Minnesota.
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These are pretty typical although Samford seems to be a new up-and-coming school for students around here.
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Looking at Scoir data for our NorCal high school…lots apply to the UCs, but we are a private school and the UCs strongly prefer public schools right now. So while lots apply to the UCs, the number who apply is going down YOY and acceptance rates are falling even faster than that.
Lots of kids are heading to the South and Midwest. Not so much the Northeast. Kids are also not applying to the super-elite schools as much. Word seems to be getting out that taking a “test optional dream shot” at an elite school is unlikely to pay off.
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Sadly we had more students than ever graduate with no plans at all. My son said 30% — no college, trade school, military or job lined up. We are in a small-ish, rural district. Other than that, I haven’t seen any major changes in where students are going.
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Unfortunately, it’s a national trend.
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Bay Area suburbs/public… the usual suspects reigned once again (class size about 450)
Cal Poly (25)
University of Colorado Boulder (23)
UCSB (19)
Berkeley (15)
UCLA (14)
University of Wisconsin (13)
University of Oregon (11)
SDSU (8)
Wisconsin’s star is rising, fewer to Michigan this year. Six to Brown, 2 to Columbia, 2 to Dartmouth, 1 to Cornell, none to the other Ivies. 2 to Stanford. 6 to Northeastern. St Andrews in Scotland is also on the rise—five there this year.
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Ransom?
Only 2 of the 15-20 SLACs were recruited athletes.
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This is interesting!
Just out of curiosity - how do people know where folks are going? Do your schools post that info somewhere? I can look up in Naviance by school to see how many applications they got and offers they extended, but I don’t think I can use it to pull a “where are people going” type list. I’d be really interested to see how the landscape looked for our school this year as it could affect (pretty notably, I think) what my son is considering as a likely v a match.
Our small private publicly shares a running five-year profile of schools and number attending. But each class creates an Instagram page with a post for each student as they commit. So if you know that page name, you just scroll through to see where everyone is going.
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Our school posts every senior’s plans on Instagram
Ours also has an Instagram feed for each senior class (I think this is pretty common). Not everyone reports (seniors have to fill out a form, so it’s a question of whether they choose to do so), but most seem to share their plans.
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Are these small schools? My son graduated with 400+ people.
Nope. My school’s the largest in the state, with about 4,000 students, give or take.
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D’s HS shares all college plans on social media. High school where we currently lives shares all schools with more than 5 kids attending. 205 graduated at my D’s HS and I think there is something like 900 at the current HS
Our school has about 300 in the class, their plans after graduation are listed in the program.
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Yes, same. About half of class of 500 have posted this year.
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