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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, I didn't go to an Ivy, and nobody I knew did.  I don't recall anyone from my school being admitted to one the whole time I was there, in fact.  I also didn't go to school in Virginia; I moved here as an adult.

What the Joisey booster is doing is identifying the most elite public schools in the most expensive NYC suburbs, schools that make Langley look diverse, and citing them as typical.  They're not.  They are schools with average family incomes of 200k, average property taxes of 20k, and no poor kids whatsoever.  Joisey also has no state schools remotely of the quality of UVA or William and Mary, so their kids are applying to Cornell and other lesser Ivies (along with UVA, which has Ivy-like admissions standards in NJ) in much larger numbers than Virginia kids.  It's not just that kids here are turning down Cornell, etc., for UVA -- they're not even applying because they know if they got in they'd also get into UVA and would choose UVA.

A better comparison might be between Virginia and California, or Virginia and Michigan . . .    [/quote]

My HS was not super affluent - 11% FARMs - and yet still seems to send a good chunk to Ivy League schools.  Education was a priority in the community.  And sports - our school did surprisingly well in sports given our size.  So maybe there were more athletic hooks?  We had a handful of the very bright kids go to Rutgers, but most did go out of state.

Anyway, that is my baseline. So [u][b]from my perspective[/b][/u] the list doesn't seem all that impressive for a "top" HS in this area.  I never said NJ schools were better or anything like that - in fact some of the SAT scores were lower - I pointed that out.  Just that comparing the matriculation trends seemed odd.  Surprising.

It would be interesting to compare to California or maybe Michigan.

-NJ

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