Where the Smart Money is Going: Elite Prep School College Matriculation II
Came across an older thread on WSO so thought I would do something similar for parents who are interested in where elite prep schools were sending their kids to college. Selected 13 well-known prep schools (incl. Andover, Exeter, Harvard-Westlake, Choate, St Paul's etc.) across the US and analysed their most recent college matriculation lists and found some interesting patterns.
Obviously, all of the schools place well into the Ivy Leagues and Stanford, Duke, Chicago and MIT (38%), but the most popular college for prep schoolers was NYU. Columbia, Georgetown, Yale and Harvard rounded off the top five.
Excluding Ivy + SDCM matriculants, 25% went to other private colleges, 16% to public colleges and finally 22% to LACs. Other interesting finds included:
Georgetown was the biggest other private college target; USC, Boston College, WUSTL and Northwestern were also some of the other most popular destinations.
As stated above, NYU was the biggest college target in general, other popular publics included UMich, UVA, Berkeley and St Andrews (Scotland) rounded off the rest of the top five.
Bowdoin and Middlebury were the most popular LACs.
CalTech did not appear in most matriculation lists, or if it did, many schools only sent a few kids (usually 5 over the 3/5 year period).
Certain schools have particular pipelines (based on the most popular destination of matriculants): Andover—Harvard; Cate—Stanford; Choate—Yale; Deerfield—Cornell; Exeter—Columbia; Groton—Harvard/Georgetown; Harvard-Westake—USC; Hotchkiss—Yale; Lakeside—Stanford; Lawrenceville—Princeton; Middlesex—Dartmouth; St Paul's—Georgetown/Brown; Taft—Georgetown.
See the spreadsheet here: bit*ly/2EPJwIe
As the previous WSO poster said: "Follow the smart money in investing; follow the smart money in college selection."
NB: I had wanted to include some other schools (e.g. St Albans, TJHSST and Hockaday) but their matriculation lists do not detail their number of matriculants or only show college acceptances rather than college matriculation. Some college matriculation lists did not detail the exact number of matriculants if there were fewer than 5 matriculants so these colleges were excluded from the list and for some matriculation lists, the average was used instead of the exact number.
Hey ivyprep18, the following topics might be helpful:
No promises, but maybe one of our professional members will share their wisdom: Punchey Wintercows roshanmahtani
Hope that helps.
NYU's not public, although you insinuate it is by mentioning it in bullet 2 then saying "...other popular publics included..." It's also very expensive, up there with or above most ivys for full list price. I did have a great three month fling with a former NYU dance student back in the day though.... so maybe I can forgive you. ;-)
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