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Anyone see this? Is it accurate or?
---- if concerned about college matriculations, one should take a look at the schools these students headed to recently. To make it easy, below are 2022 matriculations for Holy Child, Stone Ridge and VISI. There is another recent thread comparing SR and VISI, so I pulled some data from there. Basically if one were to evaluate matriculations based on % of students going to USNWR top 25 schools, SR and VISI would be the better choice for a student concerned about college admissions to top schools. For the class of '22, the % of students matriculating to top 25 schools are: SR: 24.2% VISI: 22.5% HC: 8.7% (note only 2 schools represented--NYU and UVA--both #25) Note that for Holy Child, there were no top 20 schools. Also, I was surprised that as a Catholic HS, there were none going to Boston College, Georgetown, or Notre Dame...not even one student. |
To whoever did this - could you do it for some other schools for comparison? Like Holton or Madeira for example. |
I have a boy, so at a different school. Brilliant, great resume, great stats, etc. However, he didn't apply to any of the schools you are using as your measure of high school worth. He didn't want to go to any of them. This is not a reflection on the quality of education he received at his high shcool. People who haven't been through it with a real kid with real opinions and choices, tend to read all of the wrong things into the list of schools students choose. |
I have a kid who felt the same way...among all the top schools on that list, there was only one he wanted to attend badly and he got in. Refused to apply to any ivy's despite his perfect ACT score and other great things on his resume. That doesn't mean these matriculation lists are meaningless though. It gives you an idea of the level of academics of the HS overall. |
Not if kids aren't applying to prestige schools or are choosing the schools that give them most money, and you have no way of knowing that from these lists. Where kids choose to go to college has less to do with how well educated they became in high school that the million other factors that go into that ultimate decision. |
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Two more area girls Catholic high schools to add to the list.
Academy of the Holy Cross: They did not post a matriculation list for last year, however, they did post "college acceptances." Keep in mind that with acceptances, one student is often accepted to multiple schools, so not a great tool for evaluation. However, there were only 3 top 25 schools on the list (UVA, Northwestern, and Georgetown). Those three could have been one person, but we don't really know. Even if it were three separate students, the percentage of students attending top 25 schools is extremely low in this school. https://www.academyoftheholycross.org/sisterhood/graduation2022/2022-college-acceptances Oakcrest: This school also only posted acceptances. Only 2 top 25 schools on their list of accetences (Penn and UVA). https://oakcrest.myschoolapp.com/ftpimages/1017/download/download_7071134.pdf |
I counted these up, and it appears SR and HC are accurate. I only got 21.7% for VISI, but close enough. |
| As if kids don't have enough stress, you are all going to come on here and pick apart their college choices like this? Gross. |
It's an important tool for some who want their kids to have the best opportunity to get into top colleges if that is their goal. Nothing gross about that. I wish someone had done this analysis when we were considering schools. |
I think school fit is going to be more important - lets say SR is a horrible fit for your daughter and the commute would be horrible.... do you still pretend that this is the best option because it had the highest percentage here? |
Nobody above claimed it was the only factor one should consider. But I see nothing wrong with considering matriculation lists as one informative factor, just like I think college attendance rates and average SAT scores are informative. Nobody is saying you should be paying attention to these indicators if these factors are not at all important to you. |
| Op who cares. This is not the goal of the catholic families who are sending their daughters to these schools. I could got into Georgetown but chose a smaller Catholic school that wasn’t ranked as highly. I’m a SAHm now. Does it really matter where I went? |
The Academy of the Holy Cross is full of MAGA it has never been a bastion of academics. My DD played Basketball and soccer with families from here. She was the only one not attending HC. Long story as to how she ended up on this team. We experienced this from age 11 -18. I am absolutely horrified at how many of these families are now cult members spewing crap from Epoch times. That alone tells me academics are not there. |
If what you say is true which I highly doubt you are an outlier. One can see from the postings on this board that parents are not putting their kids in these schools to not attend top colleges. That is the goal they spew continuously how the education is better, well if it was truely that much better admissions would statistically show that and it does not. |
I send my kids to private to learn how to spell truly and construct sentences that aren’t double negatives. |