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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was looking for information on the acceptance rates at top privates, but haven't come across anything definitive yet. I did stumble across this somewhat dated WSJ study of national matriculation into the very best schools

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-COLLEGE0711-sort.html

Not sure if this was ever updated, but it blows away the myth that ANY school in this area is sending 30% of grads to top schools.  Holton is the highest with barely 10%.

Interesting that they researched students actually enrolled rather than unverifiable "acceptances."[/quote]

See below on the methodology -- they just picked and chose, even among the Ivy League.  A few years ago somebody did the legwork from school-released results to put together a website called matriculationstats.org which was pretty good.

Do schools send 30% to "top schools"?  Maybe, depending on how you define top schools.  Two to three years ago St. Albans had something like 30% of the kids get into Ivy/Stanford/MIT (somebody posted their list on the board and it dovetailed with the kids who got in from my alma mater), but their typical percentage is probably between 20-20%.  However, if you add in Duke/UChicago type schools, not to mention your Davidson/Swarthmore/Amherst/Williams, I'm sure they are routinely above 30%.  [/quote]

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