Why does Lawrenceville have such good college matriculation stats?

vivsters · March 21, 2011, 2:16am

Colleges attended by 5/more graduates (2008-2010)

Princeton 36
U. Pennsylvania 29
Georgetown 27
New York U. 24
Columbia 23
Yale 19
Stanford 18
Johns Hopkins 16
Trinity College 16
George Washington U. 15
Cornell 14
etc, etc…

I just find this really amazing/hard to believe. Can anyone explain it? If I wasn’t an athlete, wasn’t a genius, wasn’t legacy, didn’t have any relations, etc., would I stand a chance to get into these universities? (if I went to Lawrenceville).

Lawrenceville has always seemed like a very mysterious school to me.

HKnewparent · March 21, 2011, 3:53am

College Matriculation: 
Year: 2008-2010
Milton has 670 students but Laurenceville has 815

Harvard University 25
Princeton University 7
Brown University 24
New York University 11
Tufts University 16
Dartmouth College 6
Johns Hopkins University 6
Georgetown University 15 
Northwestern University 6
Amherst College 7
Stanford University 6
Columbia College 13
University of Pennsylvania 11
Cornell University 13
George Washington University 13…and more

see [College</a> Matriculations](<a href=“http://www.milton.edu/admissions/matriculations.cfm]College”>http://www.milton.edu/admissions/matriculations.cfm)

Prep2011 · March 21, 2011, 5:11am

Just wanna ask the OP:
What makes it so hard to go for Hotchkiss? Your mom, or…(to be honest) Lawrenceville’s matriculation stats?

zenxan · March 21, 2011, 5:45am

Okay vivsters - lets take Princeton for example. Assume at least half have some kind of hook, legacy status, athletics, URM, etc., which leaves you with 18. Now, that’s not 18 A YEAR. that’s 18 every 3 years. So roughly 6 a year out of what 2-300 students? So if you like those odds, think you’ve got what it takes to compel Princeton to take you without any hooks, then go for it.

Otherwise choose the school YOU want, make the most of your time there, and stop stressing yourself out over matriculation statistics. Because behind each one is an individual student who is NOT YOU. Ivies are a complete crapshoot and figuring out if you can get into them by selecting a school that sent more IN THE PAST, doesn’t actually tell you anything about your chances.

mhmm · March 21, 2011, 9:17am

Dont forget that at least for Princeton - Lville has a ton of Princeton faculty kids attending. Much easier to get into an Ivy, being a tenured professor’s kid. ;)

creative1 · March 21, 2011, 2:12pm

[Boarding</a> School Stats : Matriculation Stats](<a href=“http://matriculationstats.org/boarding-school-stats]Boarding”>http://matriculationstats.org/boarding-school-stats)
Useful tool designed by a CC poster.

newportcrown · March 21, 2011, 2:17pm

st. paul’s has good matriculation as well, so mainly its because these schools (i go to one) are better known among the colleges for academic rigour.

Harvard University
21

Columbia University
20

Georgetown University
19

Yale University
17

University of Pennsylvania
17

Dartmouth College
16

Stanford University
16

Princeton University
15

Brown University
15

Middlebury College
15

Tufts University
13

Amherst College
11

Carnegie Mellon University
10

McGill University
10

University of Michigan
9

Bowdoin College
9

Wellesley College
9

Colby College
8

Williams College
8

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8

Johns Hopkins University
8

Hamilton College - NY
7

Cornell University
7

Trinity College
7

Boston College
7

University of Virginia
7

University of California at Berkeley
7

New York University
6

Lehigh University
6

Bates College
6

Davidson College
6

University of Chicago
6

University of St. Andrews (Scotland)
6

Colgate University
6

University of Southern California
5

Colorado College
5

Occidental College
5

Smith College
5

Wesleyan University
5

Carleton College
5

College of William and Mary
5

Vanderbilt University
4

University of New Hampshire
4

College of the Holy Cross
4

University of Vermont
4

Dickinson College
4

Connecticut College
4

Lake Forest College
4

Washington University in St. Louis
4

The George Washington University
4

Boston University
4

Pomona College
4

Washington and Lee University
4

Skidmore College
3

Mount Holyoke College
3

University of California at Los Angeles
3

Swarthmore College
3

Northeastern University
3

Haverford College
3

University of California at San Diego
3

Franklin and Marshall College
3

Georgia Institute of Technology
3

Duke University
3

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
3

Northwestern University
3

United States Military Academy
3

Wheaton College
2

University of Wisconsin, Madison
2

University of Edinburgh
2

University of California at Santa Barbara
2

Fordham University
2

Wake Forest University
2

United States Naval Academy
2

Sewanee: The University of the South
2

Tulane University
2

Lafayette College
2

Sarah Lawrence College
2

Claremont McKenna College
2

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2

Grinnell College
2

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
1

Vassar College
1

Carleton University
1

Southern Methodist University
1

University of British Columbia
1

Rhode Island School of Design
1

Saint Michaels College
1

Reed College
1

University of Colorado at Boulder
1

Marlboro College
1

North Carolina State University
1

University of Puget Sound
1

Stony Brook University
1

Babson College
1

Kenyon College
1

Emory University
1

University of Cambridge
1

American University of Beirut
1

Lewis & Clark College
1

Oxford College of Emory University
1

University of Connecticut
1

American University
1

The Juilliard School
1

College of Charleston
1

Barnard College
1

University of Miami
1

University of California at Davis
1

St. Lawrence University
1

University of Richmond
1

Whitman College
1

Emerson College
1

Trinity University
1

Pitzer College
1

Macalester College
1

LLVILLE · March 21, 2011, 3:10pm

zenxan - there are ~200 students in each lville class

zenxan · March 21, 2011, 6:33pm

Oh hey a current student! Yay You can help correct my randomly assigned %! lol. I just assumed half have hooks, but what would you say the real percentage of non-hooked students that get into Ivies at Lawrenceville is? IS there a reason the matriculation is so high to Princeton? Because it seems like other top schools like Andover and Exeter send FAR more kids to Harvard, Yale, and Stanford than Princeton (<- my dream school) which appears to get the highest % of students from Lville.

intrinsically · March 21, 2011, 9:19pm

vivsters,

I live near Lawrenceville so I’ve heard a lot about it. One of my classmates was recently admitted as a triple-generation legacy to the school and Princeton. She even brags frequently about how she could get in now if she wanted to…I get the impression that there are many legacies at Lawrenceville, and that it is a pretty athletically oriented school, so there is a substantial amount of athletic recruits.

There are also many asian internationals though, which would be in your group. The school has a nice reputation.

LLVILLE · March 21, 2011, 10:43pm

As a current student, my view is that Lawrenceville builds really well rounded students. All of our departments are great, all students are required to play sports, all students are required to do community service, and there are so many ways to get involved. Yes, there are students with “connections,” but this does not guarantee acceptance. Years ago, Lawrenceville and Princeton had much stronger ties and going to Lawrenceville probably helped a lot. Nowadays, it is much more competitive to get into all of the ivies. Nevertheless, I would say that almost all of Lawrenceville’s students apply to Princeton.

In other words, Lawrenceville has a number of overall qualified students for Princeton and since almost all of them apply, a lot of students get in. On the same note, not nearly as many apply to Harvard and Yale, but I am sure that prep schools that have histories with Harvard and Yale have a large number of applicants to the respective schools, similar to how Princeton receives a number of applications from Lawrenceville.

My two cents.

Why does Lawrenceville have such good college matriculation stats?

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