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SMU is one of the top school choices out of St. John's School in Houston. As you may know, SJS is the top high school in Houston and maybe in Texas. St Mark's is pretty close.

Anyway, I found it interesting that from 2005 through 2009, SMU had 22 students enroll from SJS. TCU had eight and Baylor had none. UT was at 57, UVa 24, Vandy 30 and USC 22.

fairly typical #'s for school's like sjs...

too bad that more students who went to HS in Texas transfer away from SMU than any other demographic

Having grown up in Virginia, a lot of kids applied to private schools like Richmond and Hampton-Sydney as their second choice schools and once there would go there for two years and then transfer to the school they really wanted to attend. Would not surprise me if some of these kids might have had their eyes on Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, or an Ivy and didn't get in, and then try to work their grades to transfer after two years.

tristatecoog wrote:...and Baylor had none.

Has anyone checked with the Baylor WDNWHA committee about this?

When it comes to college addmissions, the Baylor WDNWHA committee has to basically meet 24/7.

Well, my high school (SEM) was named #2 in the nation, behind sister school TAG.. so they aren't #1 in Texas.

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What is avg. ACT at that school?

NickSMU17 wrote:What is avg. ACT at that school?

50

RednBlue11 wrote:too bad that more students who went to HS in Texas transfer away from SMU than any other demographic

Where do you get that figure? Why do more go to SMU and transfer but they don't go to TCU or Baylor? I know a guy at work who went to SC for a year and then transferred to SMU (Greenhill HS). I hear that the SMU/USC pipeline is very strong.

The biggest four year school in Texas for the transfer thing has to be UT-San Antonio followed by St Edward's.

tristatecoog wrote:

RednBlue11 wrote:too bad that more students who went to HS in Texas transfer away from SMU than any other demographic

Where do you get that figure? Why do more go to SMU and transfer but they don't go to TCU or Baylor? I know a guy at work who went to SC for a year and then transferred to SMU (Greenhill HS). I hear that the SMU/USC pipeline is very strong.

The biggest four year school in Texas for the transfer thing has to be UT-San Antonio followed by St Edward's.

I believe he means that, of the students who transfer away from SMU, the largest demographic of them are from Texas.

couch 'em wrote:

tristatecoog wrote:

RednBlue11 wrote:too bad that more students who went to HS in Texas transfer away from SMU than any other demographic

Where do you get that figure? Why do more go to SMU and transfer but they don't go to TCU or Baylor? I know a guy at work who went to SC for a year and then transferred to SMU (Greenhill HS). I hear that the SMU/USC pipeline is very strong.

The biggest four year school in Texas for the transfer thing has to be UT-San Antonio followed by St Edward's.

I believe he means that, of the students who transfer away from SMU, the largest demographic of them are from Texas.

Aren't roughly half the students from Texas? I suppose that typically people far from home are more likely to transfer or flunk out, and go back closer to home. Where do those Texas transfers go? UT? I doubt many go to Stanford, Rice or Vandy from SMU. Typically, those schools take very few transfers and you would need a 3.8 GPA or so to make the transition.

Ditto on TAG (#1 by some sources) my daughter was just accepted at TAG, but some sources consider St Marks #1 private school in Nation!