See where this year’s crop of North Shore grads is headed!
Whether plans after high school entail higher education, military service or work, the North Shore’s high school graduating classes of 2014 have big plans!
Colleges and universities from around the country (and world) are preparing to begin the new school year, and they have their fair share of incoming freshman from the North Shore community that we serve here at Make It Better. As high school graduates get ready for their next adventure this fall, we thought you’d like to know where they are headed.
Disclaimer: These lists are not complete. The information here shows the responses that we received from school documents, college counselors and other resources. A selection of North Shore high schools that were contacted did not have information available to us, and are therefore not included in this article.
Out of 4,191 North Shore students surveyed…
- 27% are attending in-state colleges or universities (1,665 students)
- 60% are attending out-of-state colleges or universities (2,525 students)
- 13% are taking a gap year, or enlisting in the military
- 19% are attending Big Ten schools (824 students)
- 4.1% are attending “Elite” schools (175 students)
- 1.7% are attending “Little Ivies” (74 students)
- 1.4% are attending Ivy League schools (60 students)
Top 5 Most-Attended Schools: Public High Schools
Evanston Township High School (456 Students Surveyed)
1. University of Illinois (42 students)
2. Southern Illinois University (15 students)
3. University of Illinois at Chicago (13 students)
4. Indiana University & Northwestern University (12 students each)
5. University of Wisconsin & Illinois State University (11 students each)
- Ivy: 1%
- Little Ivy: 3%
- Elite: 3%
- Big Ten: 23%
- Gap Year: 3%
- Military/Alternative: 1%
Glenbrook South High School (370 Students Surveyed)
1. University of Illinois (51 students)
2. Oakton Community College (28 students)
3. University of Illinois at Chicago (24 students)
4. DePaul University (23 students)
5. Indiana University (20 students)
- Ivy: 2%
- Little Ivy: 1%
- Elite: 2%
- Big Ten: 33%
- Gap Year: 6%
- Military/Alternative: 9%
Lake Forest High School (437 Students Surveyed)
1. University of Illinois (28 students)
2. College of Lake County (15 students)
3. Miami University, Ohio (14 students)
4. University of Missouri (10 students)
5. Indiana University (9 students)
- Ivy: 2%
- Little Ivy: 1%
- Elite: 1%
- Big Ten: 15%
- Gap Year: 1%
- Military/Alternative: 1%
- International: 1 student (McGill University, Quebec, Canada)
New Trier Township High School (620 Students Surveyed)
1. University of Illinois (67 students)
2. Indiana University (39 students)
3. University of Michigan (39 students)
4. University of Wisconsin (31 students)
5. Miami University, Ohio (28 students)
- Ivy: 4%
- Little Ivy: 4%
- Elite: 8%
- Big Ten: 32%
- Gap Year: 1%
- Military/Alternative: 1%
Niles North High School (426 Students Surveyed)
1. Oakton Community College (139 students)
2. University of Illinois at Chicago (52 students)
3. University of Illinois (20 students)
4. Loyola University (15 students)
5. North Park University & Illinois State University (14 students each)
- Ivy: 0%
- Little Ivy: 0%
- Elite: 1%
- Big Ten: 10%
- Gap Year: 0%
- Military/Alternative 0%
Stevenson High School (739 Students Surveyed)
1. University of Illinois (92 students)
2. Indiana University (40 students)
3. DePaul University (30 students)
4. University of Missouri (26 students)
5. University of Illinois at Chicago (22 students)
- Ivy: 1%
- Little Ivy: 1%
- Elite: 3%
- Big Ten: 35%
- Gap Year: 1%
- Military/Alternative: 1%
Top 5 Most-Attended Schools: Private High Schools
Lake Forest Academy (114 Students Surveyed)
1. University of Illinois (6 students)
2. New York University (5 students)
3. Boston University (4 students)
4. Brown University (3 students)
5. Washington University in St. Louis (3 students)
- Ivy: 7%
- Little Ivy: 10%
- Elite: 4%
- Big Ten: 7%
- Gap Year: 7% (all to play Junior Hockey in Canada)
- Military/Alternative: 0%
- International: 2% (University of Toronto, Canada; Durham University, England)
North Shore Country Day (46 Students Surveyed)
1.Northwestern University (3 students)
2.Tulane University (3 students)
3.George Washington University (2 students)
4.University of Arizona (2 students)
5.University of Chicago (2 students)
- Ivy: 2%
- Little Ivy: 9%
- Elite: 9%
- Big Ten: 9%
- Gap Year: 4%
- Military/Alternative: 0%
- International: 7% (Erasmus University, Rotterdam; Oxford University and University of London, both England)
Regina Dominican High School (82 Students Surveyed)
1.Loyola University & University of Illinois (6 students)
2.Saint Louis University & Marquette University (5 students each)
3.University of Illinois at Chicago & Illinois State University (4 students each)
4.North Park University (3 students)
5.Many schools tied with 2 students attending
- Ivy: 1%
- Little Ivy: 0%
- Elite: 2%
- Big Ten: 15%
- Gap Year: 0%
- Military/Alternative: 0%
Woodlands Academy (38 Students Surveyed)
- Ivy: 3%
- Little Ivy: 0%
- Elite: 3%
- Big Ten: 11%
- Gap Year 0%
- Military/Alternative: 3%
Most-Attended Schools Overall: Ivy League, Little Ivies, Big Ten, Elite
Ivy League
1. Cornell University (15 students)
2. Brown University & Yale University (10 students each)
3. Dartmouth College (7 students)
4. Harvard University & University of Pennsylvania (6 students each)
5. Columbia University (4 students)
6. Princeton University (2 students)
“Little Ivies”
1. Tufts University (15 students)
2. Colgate University (10 students)
3. Wesleyan University (CT) & Middlebury College (7 students each)
4. Amherst College & Bowdoin College & Connecticut College (5 students each)
Little Ivies include: Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Colgate, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Haverford, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Trinity College, Tufts, Vassar, Wesleyan (CT), Williams
Big Ten
1. University of Illinois (315 students)
2. Indiana University (130 students)
3. University of Wisconsin (71 students)
4. Northwestern University (69 students)
5. University of Michigan (59 students)
Big Ten Schools include: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, Wisconsin
“Elite”
1. Washington University in St. Louis (26 students)
2. University of Chicago (24 students)
3. University of Notre Dame (16 students)
4. George Washington University (13 students)
5. Vanderbilt University (12 students)
Elite schools include: Bucknell, Carnegie Mellon, Davidson, Duke, Georgetown, GWU, Julliard, John Hopkins, Lehigh, Macalester, MIT, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Rice, Stanford, U of Chicago, University of Richmond, USMA, Vanderbilt, Villanova, Washington University (St. Louis)
