Placing kids in elite colleges

The Wall Street Journal has a new study out about which high schools place the most students at elite colleges.

It should probably come as no surprise that the high schools that funnel the most students into universities such as Johns Hopkins and Harvard are private schools. What’s perhaps more surprising is the strong East Coast bias.

Only three high schools in the Midwest made the Journal’s list – two in Michigan and one in Minnesota, Blake School. The Journal says Blake placed 9.4% of its students at one of the eight prestigious colleges the paper surveyed.

The Journal lists Blake’s annual tuition at $19,000 – a bargain compared to Kent School in Connecticut – whose success rate was only 5.1%, and whose tuition is $31,300.