ISF Academy

Author's note ISF is Category 2, not ranked: it publishes real destinations but never a per-university headcount, so it can't be weighted by actual enrollment the way Category 1 is. Its list also covers 15 years and 761 alumni, the longest period of any school on the site, which compounds the problem -- a 15-year cumulative list will naturally collect impressive names regardless of how common they actually were. Its Tier 1 list includes Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Penn, Oxford, and Cambridge, with Yale the only Ivy League university not represented. Without counts, readers cannot tell whether those destinations were recurring outcomes or isolated placements across 761 alumni, and without knowing how the 15 years break down, there's no way to tell whether ISF's outcomes have been improving, declining, or flat.