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some •••••• up admissions at my S. FL public school..

#1 kid..amazing stats and EC's..applied to 5 ivies and some big school..only schools he got into were Duke and Dartmouth

#2 kid..appplied to all 8 ivies and some big schools...only got into Harvard and Duke

#3 kid..rejected/waitlisted everywhere (stanford, MIT, harvard, yale, etc...)...only into Duke

other stats...

Cornell - 1/4
Columbia - 1/6 (but on a tennis scholarship)
Brown - 2/6
Harvard - 1/5 (and another waitlisted)
Yale - 0/4
Dartmouth - 2/4
UPenn - 0/3
Princeton - ??/3
Duke - 5/7
Stanford - 0/2


#18 kid..in at Cornell and BME at JHU

#20somethin kid..in at Brown and Cambridge

#33 kid (me)..only kid in the school in at 2 ivies (Brown and Dartmouth)

(656 kids in senior class)

very weird this year..last year the #1 kid got into H, #2 Yale..and the rest was reasonable..but this year..idk what happened

By Soulofheaven8 (Soulofheaven8) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 07:48 am: Edit

Top 20 or so got into the following: (in no particular order)

Harvard
Yale
Columbia
UPenn
Cornell
Brown
Johns Hopkins
Carnegie Mellon
Tufts
NYU
Cooper Union
Lehigh
Wesleyan
Vassar
URochester
Vanderbilt
UMich-Ann Arbor
UCLA
Northwestern

By Saam (Saam) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 10:32 am: Edit

My School (only 115 students in senior class):

Harvard: 1 ED
Dartmouth: 1 ED
U Penn: 1 ED
Cornell: 3 ED, 1 RD
Wesleyan: 3 RD
Vassar: 3 RD
NYU: 1 ED, 4 RD (including me!!!)
Georgetown: 2 EA
Amherst: 1 ED
Tufts: 1 ED
Duke: 1 ED
Northwestern: 3 RD
Carnegie-Mellon: 1 RD
Boston University: 5 RD
Boston College: 8 EA, 5 RD

By Connect4 (Connect4) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 10:44 am: Edit

from what ive heard

19 harvard
5 mit
4 columbia
1 yale
3 brown
0 princeton
3 cornell
2 Stanford
8 Tufts
1 Duke
3 Wesleyan
? Dartmouth
2 bowdoin
~90 boston university
2 case western
practically everyone who applied was accept to UMASS

note those are the ppl i know. there are 350 kids i dont know about how well other ppl did

By Iceet (Iceet) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 12:58 pm: Edit

Holy •••• blank, what kind of school do you go to? Private? How is it ranked?

By Candi1657 (Candi1657) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 01:04 pm: Edit

Amazing, your schools dig my school into the ground, hard. I don't know anyone that was accepted to an Ivy. I know one person that got into Duke and that's it.

By Candi1657 (Candi1657) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 01:05 pm: Edit

Oh Jolt, you got into Brown!!!!!!!!! I knew you would!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Jumps up and down in excitement*

By John2004 (John2004) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 01:15 pm: Edit

150 students...

- 1 USC
- 4 UC Berkeley
- 1 UCLA
- 1 NYU

By Peachieva (Peachieva) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 01:24 pm: Edit

This year sucked for most people at my TX school

406 students...

#1- in UT and TX A&M-rejected/waitlisted @ all of the ivies/elites

#2- UT Austin

#3- US Naval Academy, Rejected Haravard & Duke but waitlisted Yale

#4 (me) In Stanford SCEA, Northwestern RD, and Rice RD w/ merit $ - Rejected Brown

#5 In UT-Rejected Rice, Columbia, I assume Princeton

#6 (twin sis) In WUSTL, BU, Pepperdine, UT... Waiting for Yale-Rejected Penn and Brown

#47 In Brown ED

By Jolt21 (Jolt21) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 01:35 pm: Edit

thnx Candi!

we got kids in.BC, BU, NYU, Lehigh, etc as well..we did really good..probably the best class in a couple of years..

By Milemarker7 (Milemarker7) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 01:40 pm: Edit

Um...the big ones.

8 Penn
1 Yale
13 Duke
3 Brown
1 Stanford
2 Dartmouth
10 Cornell
14 Emory
9 Wash U
0 Harvard
0 Princeton
5 Barnard
5 Georgetown

By Connect4 (Connect4) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 02:50 pm: Edit

i go to a public school. magnet though

By Striderb (Striderb) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 05:19 pm: Edit

Hmm . . at my school only myself and another girl got into cornell . . . thats it for Ivies. Pretty pathetic, huh . .

By Sauronone (Sauronone) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 06:06 pm: Edit

dude... my school is way off yours

val -- brown, dartmouth
2nd -- duke
3rd -- UVA
another kid in at dartmouth ED
1 at trinity college
1 at connecticut college
i'm 7th and got into ucla, berkeley, wharton, duke, stern at nyu, amherst, uchicago

the rest are goin to rutgers, gettysburg, etc. and we have 271 kids. public in central jersey.

By Sauronone (Sauronone) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 06:06 pm: Edit

my bad. double post.

By Lt56boy (Lt56boy) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 06:21 pm: Edit

JOLT21....do you happen to go to taravella??

By Tri_N (Tri_N) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 06:26 pm: Edit

I don't think it's possible to have 19+ kids accepted to Harvard in the same school unless your class size is 10,000.

I think some of your so called friends are bs you. It's always easy to lie I got into Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc... than to say I got waitlisted or rejected.

By Qwerasdf (Qwerasdf) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 07:33 pm: Edit

3 kids got SCEA at Stanford, and 1 got RD. However, we live 12 min away from Stanford, meaning at least 100 people applied. Yea.. crap eh?

By Tri_N (Tri_N) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 08:08 pm: Edit

Qwerasdf, are you directing your post at me? Do you know the average of students that Harvard accept from each state? 19 students being accepted to Harvard is a state number, not a HS number.

Finally, your analogy doesn't make any sense whatsoever. What's your point really? 4-6 kids being accepted to an IVY isn't really a surprise. Since you're smart enough to limit your scope, how about 20 kids being accepted to Stanford in your area? I guess your area is full of supergenius. Schools tend to look for racial diversity as well as geographical diversity. 10 kids being accepted to Harvard is an extremly good number but 19+ is just bluffing. Unless your HS is the best in the nation, the chance of 19+ being accepted to Harvard from a single school is just slim to none. Even if your HS is the best in the nation, that number is really hard to swallow

By Crazayshiat (Crazayshiat) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 09:09 pm: Edit

my school (CA, public, around 300 seniors) got 8-10 people EA to stanford. a couple more got in for regular decision. and as always we usually get a couple people into caltech, mit, harvard, yale..etc.

By Culovv (Culovv) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 09:13 pm: Edit

private school in southern ca... most of the top 10% are going to...

berkeley, MIT, princeton, UCLA, stanford, notre dame (i go to a catholic school) , or cal tech.

By Connect4 (Connect4) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 09:15 pm: Edit

hm 20 years ago we had 120 kids going to harvard. i live in mass. its not a state number. last year my school had 28 accepted to harvard. its a feeder

By Lao (Lao) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 09:20 pm: Edit

Jolt21, which SFL high school do you go to? I'm from there.

By Daggerlee (Daggerlee) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 09:30 pm: Edit

Tri_N - it's called being a feeder school. My school is a feeder to UPenn - we had at least 15 kids get in there, out of a class size of 100; a much higher ratio than the 19 out of 350 of Connect4's.

By Polly (Polly) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 09:43 pm: Edit

I go to a public hs in California.. I don't have much info, but for now:

several @ Stanford
1 @ MIT
several @ UC Berkeley
many @ UCLA
1 @ Harvard

I'm sure there are much more.

By Freak4korn72 (Freak4korn72) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 10:15 pm: Edit

I got in at Cornell

My friend got in at Northwestern and Notre Dame

Another friend applied at Yale Dartmouth and Northwestern but we're on spring break so I dont know

Another applied at Columbia, I dont think he did though, he's all talk.

By Peepilis (Peepilis) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 10:26 pm: Edit

Can you explain the concept of feeder schools.

By Connect4 (Connect4) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 10:52 pm: Edit

basically the high school is known to have a special connection with the college the college looks favorablely at the students knowing that they are well prepared and gives them a special consideration in a way? i dont know exactly what happens but schools like andover are feeders to yale and princeton, mine is a feeder to harvard, my friend at classical in rhode island is a feeder to brown.

By Mahras (Mahras) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 11:03 pm: Edit

oh i get ya connect4, i think ours would be considered a feeder to cornell...we had exactly 40 kids get accepted in the years 2001-2003. Kewl.

By Connect4 (Connect4) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 11:06 pm: Edit

i heard of this mit feeder in new jersey, but i dont know its name. i wouldnt mind going there lol

By Connect4 (Connect4) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 11:11 pm: Edit

some of you are prob saying hey its no fair these kids going to feeder schools to top notch schools, but it isnt neccessarily a great thing.

i know for a fact that other ivies reject students from my school because we are a feeder to harvard. they think the kids accepted to harvard (or kids of that caliber) would not attend their school if they are offered admission. therefore they do not bother giving them a slot.

so if your favorite college is not the one that your high school feeds to, your chances of admission is MUCH LOWERED.

my evidence is 50-60% acceptace rate to harvard college from my school on average for the past 4 years. acceptance to another ivy is less than 5%.

By Shhh (Shhh) on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 11:29 pm: Edit

In my school-
about 10 percent actually applied to a university
about 20 percent actually took the SATs
about 40 percent is going to community college
about 8 percent is going to FIU
about 2 percent is going to a decent university

By Spacechic20 (Spacechic20) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 03:21 am: Edit

jolt21, which south florida public high school? i go to krop.

By Upandover (Upandover) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 03:27 am: Edit

In my class of about 25 people

7 out of 12 got to Cambridge
0 out of 1 got to Oxford
All applied got to Imperial ( about 15 or so)
1 out of 4 got to MIT
3 out of 3 got to Cornell
0 out of 1 got to Harvard
0 out of 2 got to Stanford
1 out of 1 got to Yale
1 out of 1 got to Berkely

Not to mention many other LAC's and UK univs.

Waiting for Dartmouth, UPenn,Princeton

By Bern700 (Bern700) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 04:04 am: Edit

The top 30 (10%) of my class got into the following (no particular order):

Harvard
Brown
Stanford
Yale
Penn
Dartmouth
Columbia
Cornell
Duke
UCLA
Berkeley
Rice
WUSTL
USC
Williams
Carleton
Pomona
Claremont McKenna
Northwestern
UChicago
JHU
Vandy
Georgetown
NYU
BC
Notre Dame
Wake Forest

By Lt56boy (Lt56boy) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 04:45 am: Edit

JOLT21....do you happen to go to taravella?? if not, which south fl high school?? i go to msd...

By Invalidusername (Invalidusername) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 10:56 am: Edit

132, Catholic school (some people appear multiple times):

0/2 Yale (0/1 EA, 0/1 RD)
0/2 Princeton ED
0/1 Harvard RD
0/1 Dartmouth (deferred ED, withdrawn)
1/1 Columbia RD
3/3 U. Penn ED (1 College, 1 SEAS, 1 Nursing)
1/1 Williams RD
1/1 Notre Dame EA
1/1 Chicago RD
?/1 Middlebury (Recruited)
0/1 Georgetown RD
0/1 Vassar RD
1/1 Boston College EA
1/1 Boston University ED
1/4 Bucknell RD
1/4 TCNJ (Trenton State)
-----------------------
So that means:

3 to U. Penn
1 to Columbia, Williams, or Chicago (decisions decisions)
1 to Notre Dame
1 to TCNJ
1 to BU

And everyone else (rolling admissions):
~ 15 to ITT or Lincoln Tech
~ 4 to Rutgers New Brunswick
~ 5 to Caldwell College
~ 15 to Penn State Altoona & Hazleton
~ 10 to Wilkes College
~ 10 College of St. Elizabeth
~ 10 to Montclair State
~ 20 to Willie P. (state University)
~ 10 to CC
~ 20 to the Armed Forces - School of Hard Knocks

By Invalidusername (Invalidusername) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 10:56 am: Edit

curse my trigger-happy fingers

By Jrc007 (Jrc007) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 11:44 am: Edit

Just off the top of my head:

Brown: 1
TCNJ: 2
Cornell: 2
Drexel: 1
Dartmouth: 1
Lehigh: 1
MIT: 1
Naval Academy: 1
Penn: 2
Princeton: 1
Rutgers: ? (a LOT)
Syracuse: 3
Tufts: 1
UVA: 1
WashU: 1
Yale: 1

By Yellowcard05 (Yellowcard05) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 11:49 am: Edit

I go to a pretty non-competitive public school in New Hampshire...we've had like three kids in the past 4 years go to ivies, the big schools to apply to are NESCACs. This year was good and bad for my school. Here's where the top ten (approximately) (and then a few) are going:

#1-Bowdoin
#2-RPI
#3-UPenn
#4-Wilkes U
#5-WUSTL
#6-Baylor
#7-Stonehill
#8-St. Lawrence
#9-Mary Washington (?)
#10-Union

A couple people in the teens and twenties-one going to Vassar, one going to JMU, one may or may not be going to Babson, another got waitlisted at Columbia and is still waiting on Princeton, and I'll prob end up at Holy Cross...those are about the best results out school has had.

By Steponme5225 (Steponme5225) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 03:19 pm: Edit

really good this year...like we set a score record for our school even with the smallest class size

what i know for sure

5-7 stanford (average is one per year)
2 MIT
2 Caltech
a couple cornell
2 JHU
couple Vassar
a lot of usc acceptances
a lot of ucla acceptances
a lot ucb acceptances
even more ucsb, ucsd, and uci acceptances

people are still waiting for decisions or they're not revealing where they got in :-D
most people are going to ucsb, uci, ucsd, ucla, or ucb

i go to a generally considered average middle-class public high school in cali and not many people apply to the east coast

By Emperoriv (Emperoriv) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 04:01 pm: Edit

I go to a public Canadian HS, we got 300 ppl

In the past, we sent 1-2 to MIT and Harvard, but this year, it's SCREWED UP

2 to Princeton
2 to Cornell (including me)

none to MIT and Harvard

One kid who won a few national math contests didnt get into anything, I was DAMN surprised. He deserved MIT at least, but he got waitlisted.

I guess MIT and Harvard are looking less favorably at Ontario this year, only less than 5 ppl got in.

By Jolt21 (Jolt21) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 04:14 pm: Edit

Lt56..yea..i do go to J.P. Taravella..hahaha..small world..btw..douglas sucks..:-P

By Jennyzsong (Jennyzsong) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 04:28 pm: Edit

1/2 got into Harvard
1/2 got into Yale
2/2 got into Cornell
0/1 got into Princeton
0/2 got into Columbia
0/1 got into Brown
0/1 got into Penn
0/1 got into Stanford
1/1 got into Northwestern
1/1 got into Berkeley

These are only people that I know of... not bad considering I got to a Canadian public school and most people don't even look at the Ivies, or the US for that matter.

By Subtrunks (Subtrunks) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 04:36 pm: Edit

My schools blow.
We got one Cornell, a Upenn and one Amherst/Williams/Swarthmore ...damm that blows

"In my school-
about 10 percent actually applied to a university
about 20 percent actually took the SATs
about 40 percent is going to community college
about 8 percent is going to FIU
about 2 percent is going to a decent university"

My same exact situation in school

By Shhh (Shhh) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 05:30 pm: Edit

how did you guys find all this out?

By Fallentear04 (Fallentear04) on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 06:11 pm: Edit

uhhh...
1/1 into UPenn Nursing (not going) UConn instead
1/1 into Notre Dame (not going) UConn instead
1/2 into Boston College (going)
1/2 into Georgetown (me, most likely going)
2/3 into NYU (1 might go, depending on whether she can appeal her financial aid decision)
0/3 into Harvard
0/1 into Columbia
0/1 into Villanova

Our class:
#1 to BC
#2 maybe to the Air Force Academy? I don't know what his plans are
#3 to Georgetown
#4 to UConn
#5 to UConn
etc. Mostly UConns and Connecticut State Universities.

By Cardinal (Cardinal) on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 10:43 pm: Edit

Tri_N,

I don't think that having 19 people accepted to Harvard from Connect4's school is ridiculous. His/her school is most likely in Massachusetts, possibly close to Harvard, and since it's a magnet school, most of the students are probably highly qualified. In addition, many could have special relationships to Harvard. As an analogy, one of the high schools I attended is very close to Stanford, and there are many professors' kids there. They have a huge advantage in terms of gaining admission to Stanford. Last year, that school, with a graduating class of approximately 400, sent 30 people to Stanford. The other high school in the city sent about 20 students. More probably got in but didn't end up going. TJHSST in Virginia, a prestigious public magnet school, sends tons of students to every top university in the country.

By Seleucus26 (Seleucus26) on Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 07:26 pm: Edit

at my skool in Philadelphia noone leaves the area for college, i got cross eyed looks for applying to Georgia Tech and didnt even bother with California skools (tho id love to go there) bcause my parents wouldnt allow it.

Also, our guidance counsler (singular)is horrible and people with good stats end up goin to horrible skools.

#1 (me) - carnegie mellon (i think)
#2 - UPenn
#3 - UPenn nursing
everyone else goes to LaSalle, Temple, Drexel, Scranton, Gwynedd mercy, and other local skools