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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]According to this list TJ is the second nationwide among public schools in being a feeder to Harvard. And despite your claim that "NYC top privates send at least 10% to Harvard every year" you can see what BS that is, because there's only 2 NY schools on the top feeders list ahead of TJ: one is Stuyvesant (public magnet), the only NY private ahead of TJ is Trinity HS. [/quote]

Huh?!! According to that list TJ is 5th--not 2nd-- among public schools in terms of numbers--not percentages. Public schools listed above TJ are Boston Latin, Stuy, Cambridge Rindge, and Lexington HS.

And 3 NY schools are on the list ahead of TJ. You left out Horace Mann. There are certainly others which rank below TJ in terms of raw numbers, but have a higher percentage of students enrolled. For example, Dalton, a NY private ranked below TJ in terms of raw numbers still has more than 10% of its student body enrolled at Harvard.  There are other privates which do not appear on this list because they are small and thus send fewer students to Harvard in terms of raw numbers, but still meet the 10% threshold. One of these is Brearley which has about 220 students in high school and in the years 2021-2025 had 25 students enroll in Harvard. https://www.brearley.org/college-advising/[/quote]

The Harvard school newspaper uses the definition of top feeder as being number of students admitted to Harvard from 2009-2024, rather than per capita admittances, because that is the definition of top feeder--prevalence of students from a given high school.

You seem to be referring to the concept of acceptance rate per capita of a given high school.  If you had that data nationwide on % of students in a high school per capita admitted to Harvard from 2009-2024, you would cite it, but you don't--all you do is cherry pick data from a website of a single NY private school from a 4 year timeframe that isn't comparable.

You are also wrong that Boston Latin is a public school- it is a private school that charges 40K+ a year.  Yes, as was pointed out earlier Stuyvesant (a NYC public magnet) is ranked higher than TJ (and all the top NY privates) as being a top feeder, along with Trinity.

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