College Acceptances for Poly Prep’s 2012 Class

College acceptances are one, amongst MANY criteria, that parents, educators, and students use to judge the quality of a NYC private school.

Based of the results of the students of Poly Prep’s 2012 class this year, Poly Prep should be quite proud. Students in the class of 2012 at Poly Prep have been accepted into all 8 Ivy League universities and other top colleges and universities in the U.S and abroad.

Through the month of April, seniors will re-visit their top choice schools before making a decision by May 1.

Acceptances at Ivy League universities include:

• Cornell = 5
• Brown = 4
• Penn = 3
• Princeton = 3
• Yale = 3
• Columbia = 2
• Dartmouth = 1
• Harvard = 1

Six Poly Prep students were accepted into international schools as well. Four students will be attending St. Andrews in Scotland and two were accepted at McGill in Montreal.

One-third of the students accepted into colleges and universities this year were accepted in the early decision period. That includes acceptances into the Ivy League universities.

Other top university acceptances included:

• Boston College = 5
• Carnegie Mellon = 1
• Duke = 2
• Emory = 3
• Fordham = 3
• Georgetown = 1
• Johns Hopkins = 3
• Lafayette = 3
• Lehigh = 3
• Miami = 2
• Michigan = 4
• New York University = 6
• Northwestern = 3
• Rice = 1
• Richmond = 2
• Villanova = 3
• University of Virginia = 3
• Wake Forest = 5
• Washington University of Saint Louis = 3
• University of Southern California = 1
• Syracuse = 6
• Tufts = 9
• Tulane = 6

Acceptances at top-ranked liberal arts colleges:

• Amherst = 5
• Colby = 1
• Colgate = 4
• Connecticut College = 4
• Grinnell = 1
• Hamilton = 4
• Haverford = 2
• Kenyon = 2
• Macalester = 1
• Middlebury = 2
• Oberlin = 2
• Occidental = 2
• Pitzer = 1
• Reed = 1
• Rochester = 3
• Skidmore = 2
• Swarthmore = 1
• Trinity = 11
• Union = 5
• Vassar = 3
• Washington & Lee = 1
• Wellesley = 1
• Wesleyan = 5
• Williams = 6

The most students accepted into any one college or university was 11 students at Trinity College.

Congratulations to all Poly Prep seniors on their college acceptances!

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4. College Placement for the Class of 2012 at The Churchill School
5. College Placement for the Class of 2012 at Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School
6. College Placement for the Class of 2012 at Saint Ann’s School
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