Top 10 High Schools with % Students Enrollments to GA Tech and UGA (Atlanta: buying, private schools)

[gshdwey]

Top 10 High Schools with % Students Enrolled to GA Tech and UGA

1. Northview High School (FULTON): 28.6% (50+114 out of 573)
2. Chattahoochee High School (FULTON): 25.6% (43+66 out of 425)
3. Alpharetta High School (FULTON): 21.7% (40+82 out of 561)
4. Milton High School (FULTON): 20.5% (39+82 out of 590)
5. Walton High School (COBB): 19.2% (38+88 out of 655)
6. Lambert High School (FORSYTH): 19% (15+61 out of 400)
7. Pope High School (COBB): 18.7% (22+67 out of 475)
8. Lassiter High School (COBB): 18.3% (15+68 out of 453)
9. Johns Creek High School (FULTON): 18% (14+16 out of 167)
10.Starr's Mill High School (FAYETT): 17.7% (23+54 out of 436)

In top 10 list, 5 North Fulton, 3 East Cobb, 1 South Forsyth and 1 Fayett county high schools are sending their students to top GA colleges.

In the above list, the only high school which has very few 12th Grade students is Johns Creek high school. It has only 167 12th Grade students as most of the senior students are still attending their parent schools Northview(1) and Chattahoochee(2) high schools.

Johns creek city (3 high schools: Northview, Chattahoochee and John's Creek high combined) is sending 26% of their total students to top GA colleges GA. Tech and UGA.

Sources of Entering Freshman | Georgia Tech Factbook
http://irhst40.irp.uga.edu/html/eFac.../S03Admiss.pdf
Georgia Department of Education

[Onthemove2014]

Not sure how this is relevant. Most kids try to leave Georgia after high school graduation so what exactly are these number good for as far as people who don't work admissions at UGA or GT?

[chalvey]

What about Emory?

[gshdwey]

don't know source for Emory enrollments

Originally Posted by chalvey

What about Emory?

[atltechdude]

yeah the list isn't particularly relevant unless it also includes the quality of other schools. If a school with a lower percentage here is sending more of the other students to Ivy Leagues for example, then this isn't really a negative mark on them.

[mrdkb]

UGA is a good school??

[WannaBeinBoston]

Agreed with the above posts. What are these #s telling us? Hope Scholarship attendees?

[gshdwey]

It is good to have other sources also to get complete picture.

In Georgia, the best high schools including top private schools always send more % kids to these top 2 state colleges GA Tech and UGA than any other private/Ivy Leagues, which have state reservation, very low tution fees and hope scholarship

Originally Posted by atltechdude

yeah the list isn't particularly relevant unless it also includes the quality of other schools. If a school with a lower percentage here is sending more of the other students to Ivy Leagues for example, then this isn't really a negative mark on them.

[atltechdude]

Originally Posted by gshdwey

It is good to have other sources also to get complete picture.

In Georgia, the best high schools including top private schools always send more kids to these top 2 state colleges GA Tech and UGA, which have state reservation, very low tution fees and hope scholarship

I guess that makes sense. In most high schools there are probably only a handful students each year that do even better than UGA or Tech.

[10 feet tall]

Most of the private schools in the Atlanta area have a similar college attendance profile to most decent public schools. Sure, there are a handful of Ivy League, UVA, Duke, etc, but you see those in good public schools also. Imagine paying 20K per year since kindergarten to have them attend Ole Miss, Auburn, Samford, UGA, Florida State, etc. It just proves the old adage that what you are buying in private school isn't the education, but the social status (i.e. they can say "I went to X" the rest of their life). Also, many studies have shown that there is no earnings advantage to their career down the road for doing private school.