Where in the country/world are the colleges most popular with college prep school students? 40 Schools version

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Indeed, it’s sort of interesting how this thread dovetails with another one on CC:

Diversity. Why is it good? Why is it a goal of Universities?

Actually, again I realized in some sense this has already been studied here. According to this interesting ongoing series: 31% is right around the same percentage of Oxbridge interviewees who actually get admitted, and then presumably these 40 feeder high schools have at least some idea which of their students are more likely to be in that 31%. So that is at least the same, and probably more, predictability for their graduates to those 12 schools as Oxbridge offer–for applicants like that. The study goes on to show the most popular alternatives were other selective private universities like NYU, Georgetown, Tufts, USC and WashU, public universities like UMich, UVA, UC Berkeley, St Andrews (UK), and UW, and LACs like Wesleyan, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Colby and Amherst. So this also helps demonstrate that for this sort of US college population, the “second choice” sorts of colleges (which might actually be first choices for some kids–plenty of our kids would prefer some of those scho…