Yale's Top 100 'Feeder' Schools
Approximately one quarter of the students who attended Yale over the past five years graduated from one of the 100 high schools identified as today's 'feeder' schools for the University, a report by the Yale Daily News says.
14 secondary schools have each sent at least 5 students on to Yale every year for the past five years, so that their graduates represented about 8 per cent of Yale's student body during that period.
The list of feeder schools includes private prep schools like Andover and Exeter, which have a long history of sending their graduates to the Ivy League.
However, some of the secondary schools placing the highest number of graduates at Yale in recent years have been public magnet schools, such as the Stuyvesant High School of New York City and the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology of Fairfax, Virginia.
In fact, one-third of the top 100 feeder schools are open-enrollment public schools that do not restrict enrollment the way that magnet schools do. The YDN noted, however, that these schools tend to be located in affluent suburbs of major cities. As with other feeder schools, they offer an excellent secondary education and provide extensive college counseling and other support to their students.
Yale has made a concerted effort in recent years to diversify its applicant pool. It has eliminated or reduced parental support requirements for middle-income families and created a Student Ambassadors program to recruit applicants from under-represented regions and communities.
Nonetheless, many of current Yale students who were the first graduates of their high schools to attend the University "found" Yale on their own, the YDN says. A successful applicant from a small town in West Virginia who was encouraged to consider Yale by a family friend noted that "my school didn't really know what to expect from [the admissions process] or how to go about applying or sending information" to Yale. She researched the school and its admissions requirements on her own, to the point of driving to a location several hours away to undergo an admissions interview.
A Yale alumnus who helped create the Student Ambassadors program said that he hoped it would attract more applicants like the West Virginia woman to Yale. The program sent representatives to 249 schools across the U.S. this year.
Source: "Among Admits, a Search for Singular Elis," by Jacob Leibenluft - the Yale Daily News, April 24, 2006. The article is the first in a 2-part series on Yale recruiting and admissions.
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14 secondary schools have each sent at least 5 students on to Yale every year for the past five years, so that their graduates represented about 8 per cent of Yale's student body during that period.
The list of feeder schools includes private prep schools like Andover and Exeter, which have a long history of sending their graduates to the Ivy League.
However, some of the secondary schools placing the highest number of graduates at Yale in recent years have been public magnet schools, such as the Stuyvesant High School of New York City and the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology of Fairfax, Virginia.
In fact, one-third of the top 100 feeder schools are open-enrollment public schools that do not restrict enrollment the way that magnet schools do. The YDN noted, however, that these schools tend to be located in affluent suburbs of major cities. As with other feeder schools, they offer an excellent secondary education and provide extensive college counseling and other support to their students.
Yale has made a concerted effort in recent years to diversify its applicant pool. It has eliminated or reduced parental support requirements for middle-income families and created a Student Ambassadors program to recruit applicants from under-represented regions and communities.
Nonetheless, many of current Yale students who were the first graduates of their high schools to attend the University "found" Yale on their own, the YDN says. A successful applicant from a small town in West Virginia who was encouraged to consider Yale by a family friend noted that "my school didn't really know what to expect from [the admissions process] or how to go about applying or sending information" to Yale. She researched the school and its admissions requirements on her own, to the point of driving to a location several hours away to undergo an admissions interview.
A Yale alumnus who helped create the Student Ambassadors program said that he hoped it would attract more applicants like the West Virginia woman to Yale. The program sent representatives to 249 schools across the U.S. this year.
Source: "Among Admits, a Search for Singular Elis," by Jacob Leibenluft - the Yale Daily News, April 24, 2006. The article is the first in a 2-part series on Yale recruiting and admissions.
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