Whitman HS - Class of 2019 College Destinations

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So much for the “top 20” claim. Here is a link to a recent ranking of public schools in the US based on the number of kids who are getting into Harvard, Princeton, and MIT. Whitman is ranked 56th, behind Wootton and Churchill. From the looks of it, at least 40 of the schools ahead of Whitman are NOT magnets.

Oh, and TJ is number one, which explains why there comparatively fewer Harvard, Princeton and MIT admits at the top NOVA non-magnets than the Ws.

https://www.polarislist.com/best-public-high-schools-in-america

Just FYI, this list is not accurate. GDS had 13 kids go to those schools from 2015-17, but it's not on the list.

It’s a public school list, genius.

No it is not.
PP, just change the field from public to private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://newtriernews.org/top-stories/2017/05/22/senior-destinations-2017/
New Trier in the Chicago area. I count 28 Ivies, 18 Northwestern, 7 to UChicago, 1 to Duke, 3 to Vandy, 29 to U of Michigan, 3 to MIT, 1 to Williams, 3 to Amherst, 2 to Middlebury, 5 to Georgetown, and 4 to Notre Dame.

This is a class of about 600.

Just a correction. New Trier's class size is typically around 1000. So the class size is a little over double Whitman's.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect there are no more than 20 traditional public high schools nationwide with comparable destination lists.

You suspect wrong. There are thousands upon thousands of high schools. Yes it’s a strong showing, but don’t get carried away.

Please go find 20 traditional (non-magnet, non-charter) public high schools with similar outcomes. I don't care about the juked rankings or whatever social justice US News publishes now. I mean raw college outcomes. I don't think there are 20 in the nation like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So much for the “top 20” claim. Here is a link to a recent ranking of public schools in the US based on the number of kids who are getting into Harvard, Princeton, and MIT. Whitman is ranked 56th, behind Wootton and Churchill. From the looks of it, at least 40 of the schools ahead of Whitman are NOT magnets.

Oh, and TJ is number one, which explains why there comparatively fewer Harvard, Princeton and MIT admits at the top NOVA non-magnets than the Ws.

https://www.polarislist.com/best-public-high-schools-in-america

Clearly said TRADITIONAL public, not magnet or charter. That list is full of selective magnets and charters.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://newtriernews.org/top-stories/2017/05/22/senior-destinations-2017/
New Trier in the Chicago area. I count 28 Ivies, 18 Northwestern, 7 to UChicago, 1 to Duke, 3 to Vandy, 29 to U of Michigan, 3 to MIT, 1 to Williams, 3 to Amherst, 2 to Middlebury, 5 to Georgetown, and 4 to Notre Dame.

This is a class of about 600.

Ok, I have too much time on my hands. This page lists the kids names. I googled them. The Ivys are 95% Athletic recruits.

Cornell rowing
cornell cross country
princeton volleyball
princeton rowing
cornell rowing
cornell swimming
MIT swimming
yale rowing
MIT rowing
dartmouth soccer
cornell rowing
penn rowing
cornell rowing
harvard swimming

These are just the first Ivy kids I across on the list (I stopped after awhile). ALL ARE STATE OR REGIONAL level athletic recruits.

Oh and the only non-athletic recruits I came across were:
-A Kennedy family member to Harvard
-2 nationally successful science kids (national science olympiad types--doing graduate level research at Northwestern in high school)---one to Harvard, one to Yale.

Dayum. I wonder if someone can run a similar review on Whitman's Ivy bound students. I don't doubt that they would be very bright and capable kids, but wow, 95% are recruited athletes?

This year 99% ivy bound Whitman kids are legacies. Not sure if it applies to previous years

Amazing posts. Thank you to the googler. Very illuminating. My experience as well is that elite college kids are 98% of the time URMs, athletes or legacies. Period.

[Anonymous]

Are some of these kids preselected to go into rowing and this is a pipeline to the ivies? Or is it a known thing that rowers have a good probability of going to Ivies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:https://newtriernews.org/top-stories/2017/05/22/senior-destinations-2017/
New Trier in the Chicago area. I count 28 Ivies, 18 Northwestern, 7 to UChicago, 1 to Duke, 3 to Vandy, 29 to U of Michigan, 3 to MIT, 1 to Williams, 3 to Amherst, 2 to Middlebury, 5 to Georgetown, and 4 to Notre Dame.

This is a class of about 600.

Ok, I have too much time on my hands. This page lists the kids names. I googled them. The Ivys are 95% Athletic recruits.

Cornell rowing
cornell cross country
princeton volleyball
princeton rowing
cornell rowing
cornell swimming
MIT swimming
yale rowing
MIT rowing
dartmouth soccer
cornell rowing
penn rowing
cornell rowing
harvard swimming

These are just the first Ivy kids I across on the list (I stopped after awhile). ALL ARE STATE OR REGIONAL level athletic recruits.

Oh and the only non-athletic recruits I came across were:
-A Kennedy family member to Harvard
-2 nationally successful science kids (national science olympiad types--doing graduate level research at Northwestern in high school)---one to Harvard, one to Yale.

Dayum. I wonder if someone can run a similar review on Whitman's Ivy bound students. I don't doubt that they would be very bright and capable kids, but wow, 95% are recruited athletes?

This year 99% ivy bound Whitman kids are legacies. Not sure if it applies to previous years

Amazing posts. Thank you to the googler. Very illuminating. My experience as well is that elite college kids are 98% of the time URMs, athletes or legacies. Period.

And my experience is that those numbers are closer to 55%. Period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are some of these kids preselected to go into rowing and this is a pipeline to the ivies? Or is it a known thing that rowers have a good probability of going to Ivies?

The DC area has the best male rowing teams in the country. Four of the 6 best teams in the nation are from the DMV (B-CC, Gonzaga, Wilson and Whitman-- due to the facts that people are abnormally tall here, the Potomac, and the weather lets them row a lot of months). In each of these schools, maybe 5 will be able to use it to get into a school - and not necessarily an ivy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://newtriernews.org/top-stories/2017/05/22/senior-destinations-2017/
New Trier in the Chicago area. I count 28 Ivies, 18 Northwestern, 7 to UChicago, 1 to Duke, 3 to Vandy, 29 to U of Michigan, 3 to MIT, 1 to Williams, 3 to Amherst, 2 to Middlebury, 5 to Georgetown, and 4 to Notre Dame.

This is a class of about 600.

Ok, I have too much time on my hands. This page lists the kids names. I googled them. The Ivys are 95% Athletic recruits.

Cornell rowing
cornell cross country
princeton volleyball
princeton rowing
cornell rowing
cornell swimming
MIT swimming
yale rowing
MIT rowing
dartmouth soccer
cornell rowing
penn rowing
cornell rowing
harvard swimming

These are just the first Ivy kids I across on the list (I stopped after awhile). ALL ARE STATE OR REGIONAL level athletic recruits.

Oh and the only non-athletic recruits I came across were:
-A Kennedy family member to Harvard
-2 nationally successful science kids (national science olympiad types--doing graduate level research at Northwestern in high school)---one to Harvard, one to Yale.

Dayum. I wonder if someone can run a similar review on Whitman's Ivy bound students. I don't doubt that they would be very bright and capable kids, but wow, 95% are recruited athletes?

This year 99% ivy bound Whitman kids are legacies. Not sure if it applies to previous years

Amazing posts. Thank you to the googler. Very illuminating. My experience as well is that elite college kids are 98% of the time URMs, athletes or legacies. Period.

I was going to say you were full of s**t but then I saw the “Period” and that turned me right around. You’re brilliant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are some of these kids preselected to go into rowing and this is a pipeline to the ivies? Or is it a known thing that rowers have a good probability of going to Ivies?

The DC area has the best male rowing teams in the country. Four of the 6 best teams in the nation are from the DMV (B-CC, Gonzaga, Wilson and Whitman-- due to the facts that people are abnormally tall here, the Potomac, and the weather lets them row a lot of months). In each of these schools, maybe 5 will be able to use it to get into a school - and not necessarily an ivy.

Wut?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Things have changed dramatically from 2017— Let’s see New Trier results for this year.

https://newtriernews.org/destinations-2019/
2 to Harvard, 3 to Yale, 8 to Princeton, 1 to MIT, 1 to Stanford, 7 to Dartmouth, 1 to Columbia, 3 to Penn, 1 to Brown, 2 to JHU, 12 to Northwestern, 6 to UChicago, 8 to Vandy, 5 to Cornell, 3 to ND, 3 to UCLA, 4 to WashU, 14 to UMich, 2 to Tufts.

[Anonymous]

Those schools are impressive -- I wonder where the other 950 kids in that graduating class are going to...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those schools are impressive -- I wonder where the other 950 kids in that graduating class are going to...

NIU
UI
SIU
WIU
UI-Chicago


Probably a bunch to UW, UW-Milwaukee, Beloit College etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://newtriernews.org/top-stories/2017/05/22/senior-destinations-2017/
New Trier in the Chicago area. I count 28 Ivies, 18 Northwestern, 7 to UChicago, 1 to Duke, 3 to Vandy, 29 to U of Michigan, 3 to MIT, 1 to Williams, 3 to Amherst, 2 to Middlebury, 5 to Georgetown, and 4 to Notre Dame.

This is a class of about 600.

Ok, I have too much time on my hands. This page lists the kids names. I googled them. The Ivys are 95% Athletic recruits.

Cornell rowing
cornell cross country
princeton volleyball
princeton rowing
cornell rowing
cornell swimming
MIT swimming
yale rowing
MIT rowing
dartmouth soccer
cornell rowing
penn rowing
cornell rowing
harvard swimming

These are just the first Ivy kids I across on the list (I stopped after awhile). ALL ARE STATE OR REGIONAL level athletic recruits.

Oh and the only non-athletic recruits I came across were:
-A Kennedy family member to Harvard
-2 nationally successful science kids (national science olympiad types--doing graduate level research at Northwestern in high school)---one to Harvard, one to Yale.

Dayum. I wonder if someone can run a similar review on Whitman's Ivy bound students. I don't doubt that they would be very bright and capable kids, but wow, 95% are recruited athletes?

This year 99% ivy bound Whitman kids are legacies. Not sure if it applies to previous years

Amazing posts. Thank you to the googler. Very illuminating. My experience as well is that elite college kids are 98% of the time URMs, athletes or legacies. Period.

I wouldn’t assume that those athletes aren’t academically qualified. Some of the brightest students in my cathedral school class were on athletic teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://newtriernews.org/top-stories/2017/05/22/senior-destinations-2017/
New Trier in the Chicago area. I count 28 Ivies, 18 Northwestern, 7 to UChicago, 1 to Duke, 3 to Vandy, 29 to U of Michigan, 3 to MIT, 1 to Williams, 3 to Amherst, 2 to Middlebury, 5 to Georgetown, and 4 to Notre Dame.

This is a class of about 600.

Ok, I have too much time on my hands. This page lists the kids names. I googled them. The Ivys are 95% Athletic recruits.

Cornell rowing
cornell cross country
princeton volleyball
princeton rowing
cornell rowing
cornell swimming
MIT swimming
yale rowing
MIT rowing
dartmouth soccer
cornell rowing
penn rowing
cornell rowing
harvard swimming

These are just the first Ivy kids I across on the list (I stopped after awhile). ALL ARE STATE OR REGIONAL level athletic recruits.

Oh and the only non-athletic recruits I came across were:
-A Kennedy family member to Harvard
-2 nationally successful science kids (national science olympiad types--doing graduate level research at Northwestern in high school)---one to Harvard, one to Yale.

Dayum. I wonder if someone can run a similar review on Whitman's Ivy bound students. I don't doubt that they would be very bright and capable kids, but wow, 95% are recruited athletes?

This year 99% ivy bound Whitman kids are legacies. Not sure if it applies to previous years

Amazing posts. Thank you to the googler. Very illuminating. My experience as well is that elite college kids are 98% of the time URMs, athletes or legacies. Period.

I wouldn’t assume that those athletes aren’t academically qualified. Some of the brightest students in my cathedral school class were on athletic teams.

Makes perfect sense. Self section of mediocre intellects.