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World's Top 100 Boarding Schools
Based on percent estimate matriculation to Ivy League MIT Stanford Oxford Cambridge
Rank | Boarding Schools | Country |
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1 - 5 | Groton School | US |
1 - 5 | Lawrenceville School | US |
1 - 5 | Phillips Academy Andover | US |
1 - 5 | Phillips Exeter Academy | US |
1 - 5 | Westminster School London | UK |
5 - 10 | Hotchkiss School | US |
5 - 10 | Milton Academy | US |
5 - 10 | Noble and Greenough School | US |
5 - 10 | St. Paul's School | US |
5 - 10 | St. Paul's School London | UK |
10 - 20 | Belmont Hill School | US |
10 - 20 | Cate School | US |
10 - 20 | Choate Rosemary Hall | US |
10 - 20 | Deerfield Academy | US |
10 - 20 | Eton College | UK |
10 - 20 | Middlesex School | US |
10 - 20 | St. Albans School | US |
10 - 20 | Thacher School | US |
10 - 20 | Winchester College | UK |
10 - 20 | Wycombe Abbey School | UK |
20 - 30 | Cheltenham Ladies' College | UK |
20 - 30 | Concord Academy | US |
20 - 30 | Peddie School | US |
20 - 30 | Sevenoaks School | UK |
20 - 30 | St. Andrew's School | US |
20 - 30 | St. Mary's School Ascot | UK |
20 - 30 | St. Swithun's School | UK |
20 - 30 | Taft School | US |
20 - 30 | Tonbridge School | UK |
20 - 30 | Upper Canada College | Canada |
30 - 40 | Abingdon School | UK |
30 - 40 | Badminton School | UK |
30 - 40 | Benenden School | UK |
30 - 40 | Blair Academy | US |
30 - 40 | Brighton College | UK |
30 - 40 | Harrow School | UK |
30 - 40 | Hill School | US |
30 - 40 | Loomis Chaffee School | US |
30 - 40 | St. Mark's School | US |
30 - 40 | Webb Schools | US |
40 - 50 | Canford School | UK |
40 - 50 | Charterhouse School | UK |
40 - 50 | Headington School | UK |
40 - 50 | Hun School of Princeton | US |
40 - 50 | Kent School | US |
40 - 50 | Northfield Mount Hermon School | US |
40 - 50 | Radley College | UK |
40 - 50 | Rugby School | UK |
40 - 50 | St. George's School | US |
40 - 50 | St. Mary's School Caln | UK |
50 - 60 | Cranbrook Schools | US |
50 - 60 | Downe House School | UK |
50 - 60 | Dulwich College | UK |
50 - 60 | Emma Willard School | US |
50 - 60 | Georgetown Preparatory School | US |
50 - 60 | Havergal College | Canada |
50 - 60 | Hockaday School | US |
50 - 60 | Mercersburg Academy | US |
50 - 60 | Oundle School | UK |
50 - 60 | Shady Side Academy | US |
60 - 70 | Appleby College | Canada |
60 - 70 | Branksome Hall | Canada |
60 - 70 | Fettes College | UK |
60 - 70 | Malvern College | UK |
60 - 70 | McDonogh School | US |
60 - 70 | Monmouth School | UK |
60 - 70 | Robert Louis Stevenson School | US |
60 - 70 | Santa Catalina School | US |
50 - 60 | St. George's School Vancouver | Canada |
60- 70 | Tabor Academy | US |
70 - 80 | Ashbury College | Canada |
70 - 80 | Asheville School | US |
70 - 80 | Bishop Strachan School | Canada |
70 - 80 | Christ's Hospital | UK |
70 - 80 | Culver Academies | US |
70 - 80 | Leys School | UK |
70 - 80 | Marlbrough College | UK |
70 - 80 | Miss Porter's School | US |
70 - 80 | Shrewsbury School | UK |
70 - 80 | St. Stephen's Episcopal School | US |
80 - 90 | Badminton School | UK |
80 - 90 | Canterbury School | US |
80 - 90 | Cushing Academy | US |
80 - 90 | Fountain Valley School of Colorado | US |
80 - 90 | Hackley School | US |
80 - 90 | Lawrence Academy | US |
80 - 90 | Masters School | UK |
80 - 90 | Oregon Episcopal School | US |
80 - 90 | Trinity-Pawling School | US |
80 - 90 | Wyoming Seminary | US |
90 - 100 | Dana Hall School | US |
90 - 100 | Ethel Walker School | US |
90 - 100 | Madeira School | US |
90 - 100 | Oakham School | UK |
90 - 100 | Ridley College | Canada |
90 - 100 | Shawnigan Lake School | Canada |
90 - 100 | St. Michael's University School | Canada |
90 - 100 | Westminster School | US |
90 - 100 | Woodberry Forest School | US |
90 - 100 | Worcester Academy | US |
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They have contacts at most of the major universities and feel perfectly comfortable picking up the phone and advocating for a student to get accepted…
Yale student
Phillips Exeter Academy
Students at Groton tend to be either very smart, very rich, or both (because some people just seem to have it all)…
Harvard student
Groton School
At Princeton, I think a lot of people feel lost because they've never really had failure before but Lawrenceville gave me a healthy dose of it…
Princeton student
Lawrenceville School
Andover is more interested in graduating people who will contribute to society than they are in graduating glorified test-taking machines…
Columbia student
Phillips Academy Andover
At Eton, while you are taught to tick the boxes, this is merely a preliminary measure: the emphasis is…
Oxford student
Eton College
Compared to public schools and most other private schools, college counseling at Choate is…
Harvard student
Choate Rosemary Hall
Rigorous academic training for entrance to top-level academic universities. This can be both good and bad…
Oxford student
Perse School Cambridge
I had an outside college counselor assist me…because I felt that the Dalton counselor and I did not get along…
Yale student
Dalton School
Advantage of being taught at Westminster was that the teachers were very aware of any changes in the syllabus for exams, due to the fact that many of them…
Oxford student
Westminster School London
Teaching is not geared simply to passing public exams but to cultivating intellect. I think this was a great help when it came to applying to Oxford.…
Cambridge student
Winchester College
College counselors are very well connected and have relationships with admissions officers at…
Yale student
Harvard-Westlake School
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Harvard student
Trinity School
Really improved is with their practice interviews: many of the teachers have Oxbridge…
Cambridge student
Manchester Grammar School
Horace Mann is on par with any high school in the county, and possibly the world…
University of Pennsylvania
Horace Mann School
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