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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2 acceptances to Yale in 8 years! Come on, that is pretty bad. [/quote]

According to US News and World Report, there are 22,000 public HS in the country.  2 in 8 years means 1 student every 4 years.

There are 5400 undergrads at Yale.  So, by this metric.  So, that means 75% of the HS have no one in Yale.  But it is worse, because some HS -- mostly the elite privates, but some publics like TJ send multiple to Yale.  Private and boarding schools account for 42% of the class.  TJ, Bronx HS of Science and similar schools place 10 or so kids at Yale, accounting for a total of probably 200 students from the top public magnet schools.

So of the 1400 new freshman, 580 come from elite privates, and another 200 or so come from public magnets.  Rounding off, that means 800/1400 students come from schools that pre-select the students.  That leaves 600 slots, or 2400 over 4 years for 22000 open public schools.  That means that, at best, just over 10% of the HS's nationwide will have a student in Yale.

Same with princeton, Princeton has 38 students in the freshman class from VA.  6 are from TJ. 32 from the rest of the state.  I know 1 is from Madison; other schools.  33% of the advanced diplomas in va are from NOVA.  I am going to assume it 60% of the incoming freshmen from Princeton is from NOVA.  That would leave 23 students from NOVA. 17 from schools not named TJ.  And about 10 from privates.  There are 54 public HS's in that area, 53 not named TJ.  7 kids went to Princeton out of 53 schools.  In one class.

Averaging 1 per year at Princeton, heck having any students, is remarkable for a open enrollment high school.

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