Most popular private universities for Bethesda-Area high schoolers
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Someone in a recent post linked to this Bethesda Magazine article showing where Bethesda area school seniors applied and were admitted (and for the first year, where they enrolled). Having too much time on my hands, I created lists of schools that received at least 50 applications and broke them down into categories.
https://moco360.media/2022/09/13/here-are-the-colleges-where-bethesda-area-high-school-grads-applied-got-accepted-and-enrolled/ Bethesda-Area High School Applicants 2021-2022 Many limitations of course! Schools reporting: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Walt Whitman ,and Walter Johnson in Bethesda; Albert Einstein in Kensington; Winston Churchill in Potomac; Richard Montgomery and Thomas S. Wootton in Rockville; and Montgomery Blair in Silver Spring. • • Self-report admits • First year with self-report enrollment • Limited to schools with at least 50 applicants from these schools • No way to know if it’s the same student getting in everywhere, overshooting everywhere, schools are using yield protection, etc. My arbitrary categories: Very high reach schools: admit less than 10% High reach: admit less than 20% Reach: admit less than 40% Target: admit 40 – 67% Safety: admit 68% or more Most Popular Private Universities Northeastern University 544 19% 21% High Reach Cornell University 495 9% 59% Very High Reach Boston University 475 29% 19% Reach New York University 467 17% 56% High Reach University of Pennsylvania 456 7% 60% Very High Reach Johns Hopkins University 440 5% 62% Very High Reach Brown University 376 5% 74% Very High Reach The George Washington University 366 46% 19% Target American University 361 32% 23% Reach Northwestern University 359 9% 61% Very High Reach Duke University 346 8% 62% Very High Reach Columbia University 327 4% 83% Very High Reach Carnegie Mellon University 313 13% 63% High Reach Harvard University 293 3% 70% Very High Reach Vanderbilt University 291 9% 33% Very High Reach University of Southern California 287 15% 21% High Reach Stanford University 280 4% 67% Very High Reach Syracuse University 280 48% 10% Target Yale University 280 3% 56% Very High Reach Princeton University 275 5% 67% Very High Reach Boston College 253 24% 25% Reach Washington University in St. Louis 248 14% 54% High Reach Emory University 243 19% 45% High Reach University of Miami 242 36% 29% Reach Georgetown University 232 24% 45% Reach Case Western Reserve University 212 33% 15% Reach University of Chicago 207 7% 67% Very High Reach Tulane University 198 21% 45% Reach Massachusetts Institute of Technology 195 6% 73% Very High Reach Drexel University 190 72% 13% Safety Fordham University 178 68% 8% Safety Howard University 165 30% 30% Reach Dartmouth College 160 8% 67% Very High Reach Rice University 144 13% 28% High Reach Loyola University Maryland 143 60% 20% Target University of Rochester 143 43% 16% Target Villanova University 133 18% 21% High Reach Wake Forest University 129 22% 39% Reach Elon University 127 76% 14% Safety University of Richmond 113 26% 14% Reach University of Tampa 107 41% 14% Target Lehigh University 102 22% 18% Reach McDaniel College 102 60% 13% Target Bucknell University 94 31% 24% Reach Rochester Institute of Technology 83 55% 15% Target Stevenson University 79 48% 24% Target California Institute of Technology 78 8% 50% Very High Reach The Catholic University of America 68 54% 32% Target |
Anonymous
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I’m very surprised by how many kids applied to AU and GWU - they’re so close to home, and the are not as unique as Georgetown. I’m also surprised AU is tougher to get into than GW!
Thank you, OP! |
Anonymous
What are the numbers? |
Anonymous
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Northeastern #1
Boston Univ #3 Boston Coll No Tufts? |
Anonymous
OP is doing same type of analysis for SLAC - and Tuff was categorized as SLAC by OP. |
Anonymous
I am not surprised at all. GU is not in common app, test required and it is probably more difficult to get in. So not as many people apply. |
Anonymous
The fact that kids applying to close schools is not surprising. The fact that AU has lower acceptance rate and higher admission rate compared to GW is interesting. |
Anonymous
Lehigh is interesting in that their CDS admit rate for 22-23 was nearly 37% (Lehigh is on my mind as my younger daughter did a standard and engineering tour there the other day and liked it (despite professsing to have no interest in the Greek stuff). Less than half that for kids from the MD suburbs for kids entering this fall! |
Anonymous
Well, that’s because most engineers know that UMD is in a different league than Lehigh. Lehigh is only R2. And the student body skews from country club to Pell Grant, with not much middle class in between because there is precious little merit aid. |
Anonymous
From Bethesda and vicinity, number of applicants, admit rate, and yield rate I think. |
Anonymous
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It shows that kids prefer urban environment schools in interesting locations such as NYU, Boston Univ, Northeastern.
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Anonymous
Maybe, but since it only shows private universities, not public’s and LACs, that may not hold true for the graduating classes as a whole. |
Anonymous
Why would the trend be different for public or LAC? |
Anonymous
I’m not sure how that leads to a lower admit rate for MD students. Also, that is very different from the profile of the kids on my daughter’s recent tour (anecdotal of course). It was decidedly a middle class group. They may all end up at Rutgers or PSU or Temple for the reasons you suggest though so you may be right. |