Forbes top prep schools

[Anonymous]

It is a very good acceptance rate, but that is the figure for just one year. Harvard acceptances go up and down for a school; that could have been an extremely good year. Also, if you look at top preps like Exeter and Andover and then discount for the "local" advantage of Roxbury Latin, you see that the Roxbury Latin acceptance rate to Harvard is not that different from those top schools'.

[Anonymous]

you are also forgetting the legacy factor here especially for andover/exeter and then how many harvard faculty members send their kids to Roxbury Latin? It is not insignificant. The same thing skews the Lawrenceville School's stats as they have a hug number go onto Princeton. We realized -- it is right down the road. Many faculty members send their kids to Lawrenceville as day students or also just live in Princeton.

Take the Harvard kids out of Roxbury's numbers, and the stats are more normal. Take the Princeton kids out of Lawrenceville and the same thing.

[Anonymous]

www.roxburylatin.org/school_life/Matriculation.aspx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:www.roxburylatin.org/school_life/Matriculation.aspx

It's an ivy league mine field.

[Anonymous]

It seems one person keeps bumping this above the Landon posts. If you're in DC -- why do you care so much about RL?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems one person keeps bumping this above the Landon posts. If you're in DC -- why do you care so much about RL?

I am in D.C., but I think the private schools here pale in comparison to those in Massachusetts.

[Anonymous]

If you take out its outsized Harvard acceptance rate, 10,7,3,9,8. It looks like a normal prep school, if not a little below average. Yale, 1,1,1, and Princeton 1,1,3. I'm not that impressed actually. There is obviously a very special relationship between Harvard and Roxbury.

[Anonymous]

Thank you PP. That's what I said, above. There are parallel schools too like Lawrenceville/Princeton or even Georgetown Prep/Georgetown. You have to factor for the "special relationship" (same town, faculty kids, etc). That's why stats only tell part of the story.

[Anonymous]

Based on matriculation, I would thnk that Sidwell would get on this list - probably not this year - but in most years. I know that it seven kids accepted to Yale within the last three years. This year it had only seven kids in Ivies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Based on matriculation, I would thnk that Sidwell would get on this list - probably not this year - but in most years. I know that it seven kids accepted to Yale within the last three years. This year it had only seven kids in Ivies.

How do you know this years numbers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you PP. That's what I said, above. There are parallel schools too like Lawrenceville/Princeton or even Georgetown Prep/Georgetown. You have to factor for the "special relationship" (same town, faculty kids, etc). That's why stats only tell part of the story.

One thing to keep in mind about those "special relationship" scenarios is that some of those kids would get in anyway and some of them would have just gone to a different elite school instead making a smoother pattern.

[Anonymous]

Have seen RL kids in action--super smart. The school has a 350 year old reputation for academic excellence and a lot of cash, and thus is very very selective. They also did not get into the sports arms race--thus are seen as "nerds" by some in the Boston prep school community but it is worth noting their acceptances are not swelled by the sports admissions.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on matriculation, I would thnk that Sidwell would get on this list - probably not this year - but in most years. I know that it seven kids accepted to Yale within the last three years. This year it had only seven kids in Ivies.

How do you know this years numbers?

[Anonymous]

because i'm a parent there.