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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any schools that doesn't provide a matriculation list that identifies where students actually end up is risking disappointment.  Schools have tricks to improve the appearance of the matriculation list, such as 
" in the past five years students have been ADMITTED to the following schools . . ." to allow listing of all top schools that the one or two superstars were admitted to.  Another trick is vague (unverifiable)  stats referring to percentages being accepted in to some undefined category of elite schools.

These "tricks" create the impression that the school offers a ticket to a better school than the DC might otherwise qualify for.  A list that identifies students by name a school attending provides a far more realistic snapshot and real bench-marking. BUT [b]parents of students [/b]attending the less impressive schools are sometimes humiliated by such lists.[/quote]

I mostly agree with this too. I think a bigger problem with the list of students linked to their schools is that the [i]students[/i] maybe humiliated or puffed up, which seems particularly unfair to the kids when admission to the top schools depends so much on luck. Imagine the backbiting:  "X only got in because he's a legacy/dumb jock". And the humiliation: "I knew Y was applying to HYP, he must have been rejected from all three."  Ick!

Maybe one solution is to provide a list of colleges where kids are matriculating (not the acceptances).  Something like Princeton (1), Cornell (2), U Chicago (2).... [/quote]

1.  Mostly it the parents who are complete psychos about this, not the kids;
2.  Some schools do post such lists.[/quote]

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