Andover matriculation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP you need a new hobby.

They just copy-pasted. You seem miserable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP you need a new hobby.

They just copy-pasted. You seem miserable.

Just asked AI to do it; even quicker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that they send 10 or more to each of Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Brown, and Chicago but only 3 to Dartmouth. I would have expected more there.

Also only 3 to Princeton.

[Anonymous]

Lots to UVA. LOTS. None to Maryland.

Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots to UVA. LOTS. None to Maryland.

Lol

This is interesting. I wonder why literally zero. Not even one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that they send 10 or more to each of Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Brown, and Chicago but only 3 to Dartmouth. I would have expected more there.

Also only 3 to Princeton.

Eh, that just fluctuates by year. In the 2022 class, 9 kids went to Princeton.

I can tell you why more kids don’t go to Dartmouth: the Andover teachers tell us it’s a college version of Andover. Most of us wanted something different.

https://www.scribd.com/document/719276162/Profile20222023

[Anonymous]

Great placement but sort of underwhelmed? Seems like 1/3 of the class went to t-20 schools which isn’t that different from the big 3 schools here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great placement but sort of underwhelmed? Seems like 1/3 of the class went to t-20 schools which isn’t that different from the big 3 schools here.

Nope. It’s reliably 25% to Ivy League and 50% to T20 if you run the numbers.

- Andover grad

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots to UVA. LOTS. None to Maryland.

Lol

This is interesting. I wonder why literally zero. Not even one.

I think Virginia likely has more old money "preppies" than Maryland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots to UVA. LOTS. None to Maryland.

Lol

This is interesting. I wonder why literally zero. Not even one.

Because UVA is nationally recognized as a prestigious university and Maryland isn’t, no matter what the naysayers on the board have to say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://d2e3a5v56wj8r4.cloudfront.net/files/SchoolProfile2023-2024.pdf

Was surprised Virginia Tech wasn't anywhere and that SMU and Tulane were on the 3 year list.

Only 1 to Cal Tech and none to Harvey Mudd is more disappointing than none to Virginia Tech. The students looking at STEM aren’t focused on SMU or Tulane …Virgina Tech is likely a safety for the 7 going to MIT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots to UVA. LOTS. None to Maryland.

Lol

This is interesting. I wonder why literally zero. Not even one.

Because UVA is nationally recognized as a prestigious university and Maryland isn’t, no matter what the naysayers on the board have to say.

But why are there people going to Penn State, FSU, Rutgers, Purdue? Surely UMD College Park is on par with these?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great placement but sort of underwhelmed? Seems like 1/3 of the class went to t-20 schools which isn’t that different from the big 3 schools here.

Nope. It’s reliably 25% to Ivy League and 50% to T20 if you run the numbers.

- Andover grad

Yea I’m not an Andover grad and don’t have kids in the “Big 3” either but I can do addition and division. By my count more than 80 graduates of the class of 2023 went to an Ivy, Stanford or MIT and another 21 went to Chicago. These schools alone account for 1/3 of the class, and they’re only half - the top half - of the top 20.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots to UVA. LOTS. None to Maryland.

Lol

This is interesting. I wonder why literally zero. Not even one.

Because UVA is nationally recognized as a prestigious university and Maryland isn’t, no matter what the naysayers on the board have to say.

But why are there people going to Penn State, FSU, Rutgers, Purdue? Surely UMD College Park is on par with these?

A lot of students at Andover do a post-grad. They send a lot of athletes to these type of schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://d2e3a5v56wj8r4.cloudfront.net/files/SchoolProfile2023-2024.pdf

Was surprised Virginia Tech wasn't anywhere and that SMU and Tulane were on the 3 year list.

Only 1 to Cal Tech and none to Harvey Mudd is more disappointing than none to Virginia Tech. The students looking at STEM aren’t focused on SMU or Tulane …Virgina Tech is likely a safety for the 7 going to MIT

There are geographic reasons at play. There is a definite bias towards east coast schools, except for Stanford and UChicago. Very few to Berkeley, UCLA, etc.