BIHS seniors are college-bound in droves
June 8, 2010
The first graduating class from Berkeley International High School did very well in the college admissions derby, landing places in more than 60 colleges and universities around the United States and United Kingdom. Preliminary data compiled by Vice Principal Amy Frey and the College & Career Center (with dozens of students yet to report in) show that BIHS students will be scattering to colleges in 16 states, stretching from Washington and California to Florida and Massachusetts. Among those schools getting our graduates are:
- All three levels of the California higher education network, including half a dozen campuses each from the UC, CSU and community college systems.
- Half of the Ivy League (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia)
- Large state universities (Cal, UCLA, Oregon, Michigan, UMass Amherst) and small liberal arts colleges (Barnard, Amherst, Grinnell, Skidmore, Kenyon, Sarah Lawrence, Williams, Vassar, Pitzer, Bard, Whitman, Macalester)
- Both contestants in the Big Game (Stanford and Cal)
- A pair of Berkeleys: UC Berkeley, in our back yard, and Berklee College of Music in Boston
- The University of Edinburgh in Scotland
Many students also reported on their application and acceptance record. Overall, those providing complete data applied to an average of 8.5 schools, and were accepted by 5.2, for an acceptance rate of just over 60%. Within those averages, there was plenty of variation. Some students said they applied to only one school; others listed as many as 17 applications. Acceptance rates ranged from 11% up to 100%; students who were accepted by all their chosen schools applied to anywhere from 1 to 10 colleges.