Andover matriculation

[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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So why no Virginia Tech & UMD?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools with 3 or more matriculations:

University of Chicago 21
Harvard University 12
Yale University 12
Stanford University 11
Boston University 10
Brown University 10
Northeastern University 10
Columbia University 8
Georgetown University 8
New York University 8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 7
Northwestern University 7
University of Pennsylvania 7
University of Virginia 7
Cornell University 6
University of Massachusetts, Amherst 6
Boston College 5
Carnegie Mellon University 5
Villanova University 5
Williams College 5
Emory University 4
Tufts University 4
Tulane University 4
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 4
University of St. Andrews 4
Wellesley College 4
Wesleyan University 4
Amherst College 3
Babson College 3
Bates College 3
Bowdoin College 3
Colby College 3
Colgate University 3
College of the Holy Cross 3
Colorado College 3
Dartmouth College 3
McGill University 3
Middlebury College 3
Princeton University 3
Rutgers University 3
Skidmore College 3
Southern Methodist University 3
The University of Texas at Austin 3
United States Naval Academy 3
University of California, San Diego 3
University of Michigan 3
University of Southern California 3
University of Wisconsin, Madison 3
Vanderbilt University 3
Washington University, St. Louis 3

Chicago seems to be going all in on wealthy private schools kids. It's a definite change from their historical norm, which is bright students from all backgrounds. And if you're going to spend $300,000 on high school, it seems a little pathetic to spend another $400,000 on BU, NYU, or Northeastern. It's an impressive list of college destinations regardless, but still... This is money talking, not talent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So why no Virginia Tech & UMD?

Because when you have 8 kids going to MIT, that doesn’t leave much room for VA tech. And UMD isn’t that nationally recognized.

Remember, this is matriculation, not acceptances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools with 3 or more matriculations:

University of Chicago 21
Harvard University 12
Yale University 12
Stanford University 11
Boston University 10
Brown University 10
Northeastern University 10
Columbia University 8
Georgetown University 8
New York University 8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 7
Northwestern University 7
University of Pennsylvania 7
University of Virginia 7
Cornell University 6
University of Massachusetts, Amherst 6
Boston College 5
Carnegie Mellon University 5
Villanova University 5
Williams College 5
Emory University 4
Tufts University 4
Tulane University 4
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 4
University of St. Andrews 4
Wellesley College 4
Wesleyan University 4
Amherst College 3
Babson College 3
Bates College 3
Bowdoin College 3
Colby College 3
Colgate University 3
College of the Holy Cross 3
Colorado College 3
Dartmouth College 3
McGill University 3
Middlebury College 3
Princeton University 3
Rutgers University 3
Skidmore College 3
Southern Methodist University 3
The University of Texas at Austin 3
United States Naval Academy 3
University of California, San Diego 3
University of Michigan 3
University of Southern California 3
University of Wisconsin, Madison 3
Vanderbilt University 3
Washington University, St. Louis 3

Chicago seems to be going all in on wealthy private schools kids. It's a definite change from their historical norm, which is bright students from all backgrounds. And if you're going to spend $300,000 on high school, it seems a little pathetic to spend another $400,000 on BU, NYU, or Northeastern. It's an impressive list of college destinations regardless, but still... This is money talking, not talent.

50% of kids at Andover are on need based financial aid and Andover is need blind. So no — it’s not all just rich kids.

[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.

Great info for DMV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So why no Virginia Tech & UMD?

Because when you have 8 kids going to MIT, that doesn’t leave much room for VA tech. And UMD isn’t that nationally recognized.

Remember, this is matriculation, not acceptances.

I thought UMD was a public ivy

[Anonymous]

Andover's academics are in that rarefied world- best teachers, best classes, best opportunities that money can buy.

It has need based aid, so not all students are wealthy.

That matriculation list is impressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Andover's academics are in that rarefied world- best teachers, best classes, best opportunities that money can buy.

It has need based aid, so not all students are wealthy.

That matriculation list is impressive.

And admission is need blind, so the school meets 100% of a family’s demonstrated financial need. Average grant is $60K, which means you’d pay $16K/year for boarding tuition. Financial need includes things like travel to/from school.

[Anonymous]

Cornell, Penn, Berkeley, and UCLA are low considering how big those schools are. And no Oxbridge? But overall, the list is impressive. Most of the schools on that list are great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Andover's academics are in that rarefied world- best teachers, best classes, best opportunities that money can buy.

It has need based aid, so not all students are wealthy.

That matriculation list is impressive.

And admission is need blind, so the school meets 100% of a family’s demonstrated financial need. Average grant is $60K, which means you’d pay $16K/year for boarding tuition. Financial need includes things like travel to/from school.

Andover does put its money where its mouth is. Too bad we couldn't have a 1,000 Andovers.