<p>I heard that Yale accepts only 1 person per school, no matter the size or reputation, no matter what. Is this true?</p>
<p>Absolutely untrue.</p>
<p>Not true… You are, in a sense, competing with other applicants from your school, but that does not mean that Yale can only accept one of you. There are schools where 15+ students are admitted in one year.</p>
<p>Deefinitely untrue, although, I think that for a lot of schools without huge reps already established (like Andover and Exeter) Yale probably won’t admit the majority of people who apply. You get compared to your classmates from the same school, not the school down the street (or so admissions officers have told me). Just because Yale is such a competitive school, it’s unusual for more than 2 or 3 to be accepted from a school that isn’t a well known magnet.</p>
<p>In my personal case, this was true, though I don’t know about others.</p>
<p>Yah as sunfire said, east coast prep schools do very well…
Phillips Andover for example, these are matriculations so the admit rates were definitely higher!
[Phillips</a> Academy - School Profile & College Matriculations](<a href=“http://www.andover.edu/Academics/CollegeCounseling/Pages/SchoolProfileCollegeMatriculations.aspx]Phillips”>http://www.andover.edu/Academics/CollegeCounseling/Pages/SchoolProfileCollegeMatriculations.aspx)</p>
<p>^ Yep, very true. 5 were accepted from my school last year, all early.</p>
<p>convinced yet Frenchmani? My area HS (solid but not super super) had FOUR admits two years ago – a statistical anomaly for sure. It’s really the individuals, not the school.</p>
<p>Think about it: Yale spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to attract the best applicants. Why on earth would they handicap themselves for such a spurious constraint? For what purpose?</p>
<p>Frenchmani: Direct the source of the rumor to this recent article…</p>
<p>[Danbury</a> High quadruplets get into Yale - NewsTimes](<a href=“Danbury High quadruplets get into Yale”>Danbury High quadruplets get into Yale)</p>
<p>Definitely untrue–I have friends with 11 or 12 high school classmates at Yale.</p>
<p>I think there might be an element of truth to this when it comes to mediocre or poor schools. I went to a crappy city HS and only one student was accepted to the Ivies that got applicants: one to Yale, Harvard, Brown, and Penn.</p>
<p>not true. at least 4 from my sch were accepted last year and my sch isn’t even in the states!</p>
<p>Very untrue, though I was the only person from my school. Well, for EA, anyway. Though I’ve known schools who have excepted more. Plus, I’m positive the infamous quads went to the same school.</p>
<p>Lol… 1234d, RJ and HC are the only schools that send ppl to HYPSM…</p>
<p>as everyone has said, this is untrue. the fact that there is usually only one per year at some mediocre schools is probably due to the quality of the student more than to the quality of the school. it has been true in my case, but as i said that is probably due to the quality of the applicant in my school/town, not to any quota system.</p>
<p>Yeah, not true at all, especially at private schools. My (private) high school sends 5-10 people each year.</p>
<p>^ This is exactly the same as my HS.</p>
<p>Wow… I’ll be the first from my HS in 7 years (I’m pretty sure…) haha. No Yalies in recent memory.</p>
<p>is it better to go to private school or public school?</p>
<p>Untrue, two people from Lakeside in Seattle were accepted into the class of 2014 (not counting all the others who have also applied regular and have not heard back yet).</p>
<p>And as for private versus public, as long as you take the most challenging courses available to you and succeed in them, you are on an even playing field with the rest of the applicants. I go to a private school that has few APs but I took all of them and have done well. I also know several students who have been admitted from public schools who took all the APs possible. Any competetive school wants to see that you challenge yourself and do well.</p>
<p>My son’s private school, which graduates fewer than 150 students each year, averages about 6 acceptances to Yale annually (and it may be a higher number as I am only privy to matriculated students information).</p>