Harvard Crimson Feeder Schools Exist

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Anonymous wrote:Somebody said Andover only had 4 Harvard admits last year when it’s been usually over 10.

FWIW, my kids are at a feeder school high on this list and we had less than half the usual apply to Harvard last year both cycles and this year REA. Apps to Yale, Princeton, Stanford and brown all up during same periods.

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Anonymous wrote:How does a public school Range and Latin spend $34,000 per student?

It’s Cambridge Ringe and Latin and it is the public high school across the street from Harvard’s campus. It is full of Harvard professors’ kids, who are often very smart and do get an admissions bump from their parent’s employer.

I think it's funny that neither of you has gotten the name of the school right.

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I know someone who attended Andover. She has no relationship with her parents because they only saw each other on Facetime. She did get in to an Ivy so there's that.

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Anonymous wrote:I know someone who attended Andover. She has no relationship with her parents because they only saw each other on Facetime. She did get in to an Ivy so there's that.

And your point is … ?

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Andover.

Yes, kids there are very smart. No, of course they aren’t the only smart kids out there.

However, Andover is extremely rigorous. It’s basically a junior college. The preparation for college is therefore excellent.

Of course, there are also legacies and such, but don’t discount the importance of excellent preparation.

Andover selects students the same way as harvard. it is not a surprise that they send a lot of students there.

Wealthy legacies.
Top athletes in country club sports with decent academics.
Extremely intelligent students with no other hooks.

Combine that with the long history and relationship between the two as well as the geographic preference and it's not a surprise.

Yes, Andover provides great preparation for college but it's not really much better than the prep at any of the Big 3 in the DC area.

Look at the course of study at Andover and tell me any school in this area can touch it:

https://d2e3a5v56wj8r4.cloudfront.net/files/CourseOfStudy.pdf

Andover also has a renowned American Art museum and archeology museum. Students can study at those museums and do extensive research projects there.

Sorry — there’s just no comparison.

Andover has trimesters with electives so students get more choice on specific subtopic of English and Social Studies. That's nice and fun but not better than studying texts and countries selected by the administration and shared across the whole grade.
It's not like each student takes all 20 English electives.


DC has the Smithsonian museums!

All 9th and 10th graders take the same English class.

Having the Smithsonian museums is not the same as having 2 museums on your campus. My friend was able to do an independent study in which she curated an exhibit at the Peabody Museum. She went on to be a Rhodes Scholar.

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Anonymous wrote:Lexington High grad here but not from an affluent family. I graduated decades ago but still have friends and family there. Lexington High is a big public high school. It has more students than Jackson Reed in DC. My Senior graduating class was larger than my small liberal arts college class. It also prepares it’s students who are focused and engaged in learning very well. People buy in Lexington for its school system. A lot of families value education, priorotize it, and it shows.

Another grad, I was class of ‘82, we had just over 600 in our class. Four years before me they had over 800 and 4 years after me, they were down in the 400’s. It was the end of the baby boom. I have no idea how many students they graduate now.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Lexington High School. It’s a feeder because many of the students get free tuition because their parents are professors there. In my year (early 80’s), over 20 went.

A lot of Massachusetts public high schools are on there. Weston High, Belmont High, Newton South, Wellesley high, Brookline high. And then most of Massachusetts private schools too.

My kid’s school is a feeder school. Mine and my husband’s schools are also there. The last generation to go to Harvard in our family is our parents. Our children will not be following their grandparents into Ivy League. We do appreciate the good public schools though.

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Anonymous wrote:I know someone who attended Andover. She has no relationship with her parents because they only saw each other on Facetime. She did get in to an Ivy so there's that.

And your point is … ?

There's more to life than going to an elite boarding school or Ivy.

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Anonymous wrote:Somebody said Andover only had 4 Harvard admits last year when it’s been usually over 10.

FWIW, my kids are at a feeder school high on this list and we had less than half the usual apply to Harvard last year both cycles and this year REA. Apps to Yale, Princeton, Stanford and brown all up during same periods.

That's interesting because the early Yale apps are down. Harvard will be down too with test required. Why do you think the apps are down at your feeder?

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Anonymous wrote:How does a public school Range and Latin spend $34,000 per student?

It’s Cambridge Ringe and Latin and it is the public high school across the street from Harvard’s campus. It is full of Harvard professors’ kids, who are often very smart and do get an admissions bump from their
parent’s employer.

Thanks for providing zero information relevant to the question!

Harvard professor’s kids have no bearing on their budget and I wouldn’t assume professors kids go there.

Cambridge is the most diverse city in the state. The student teacher ratio at Cambridge Rindge and Latin is 10 to 1.

Within the school they have Rindge School of Technical Arts, they have an extension school. They also have technical programs within the school much like a community college. 40% of students don’t speak English as their first language. Many have parents who do not speak English. There is also a large group of refugees from places like Sudan and Afghanistan.

All of these plus many more reasons that require large budgets per student.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody said Andover only had 4 Harvard admits last year when it’s been usually over 10.

FWIW, my kids are at a feeder school high on this list and we had less than half the usual apply to Harvard last year both cycles and this year REA. Apps to Yale, Princeton, Stanford and brown all up during same periods.

That's interesting because the early Yale apps are down. Harvard will be down too with test required. Why do you think the apps are down at your feeder?

yale apps down overall this year? has that been announced. they're literally up 3x at our high school

I dont know why they're so low at our HS. Some people who unhappy w protests last year but I dont know that that explains it all. Yale kids (from our HS) seem happier, and there are a couple kids currently at Harvard who aren't thrilled there. I wonder if that moves the needle at all.

Last year I really thought there were just more brown and yale legacies, but it's happening again this year

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Anonymous wrote:I know someone who attended Andover. She has no relationship with her parents because they only saw each other on Facetime. She did get in to an Ivy so there's that.

And your point is … ?

There's more to life than going to an elite boarding school or Ivy.

Did anyone say otherwise?

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Anonymous wrote:Somebody said Andover only had 4 Harvard admits last year when it’s been usually over 10.

FWIW, my kids are at a feeder school high on this list and we had less than half the usual apply to Harvard last year both cycles and this year REA. Apps to Yale, Princeton, Stanford and brown all up during same periods.

Except Andover’s Harvard matriculation numbers are steady with past years. 12 kids went.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does a public school Range and Latin spend $34,000 per student?

It’s Cambridge Ringe and Latin and it is the public high school across the street from Harvard’s campus. It is full of Harvard professors’ kids, who are often very smart and do get an admissions bump from their
parent’s employer.

Thanks for providing zero information relevant to the question!

Harvard professor’s kids have no bearing on their budget and I wouldn’t assume professors kids go there.

Cambridge is the most diverse city in the state. The student teacher ratio at Cambridge Rindge and Latin is 10 to 1.

Within the school they have Rindge School of Technical Arts, they have an extension school. They also have technical programs within the school much like a community college. 40% of students don’t speak English as their first language. Many have parents who do not speak English. There is also a large group of refugees from places like Sudan and Afghanistan.

All of these plus many more reasons that require large budgets per student.

Is it one of the biggest feeder schools to Harvard?
I thought Cambridge Public Schools was not that well regarded.

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Anonymous wrote:Somebody said Andover only had 4 Harvard admits last year when it’s been usually over 10.

FWIW, my kids are at a feeder school high on this list and we had less than half the usual apply to Harvard last year both cycles and this year REA. Apps to Yale, Princeton, Stanford and brown all up during same periods.

Except Andover’s Harvard matriculation numbers are steady with past years. 12 kids went.

okay. I thought someone said 4. anyway, my kids at another feeder