<p>This may be a complete myth, but there's a notion floating around my school that Stanford only likes to accept one student per high school. Is there any truth to it?</p>
<p>There has been exactly 1 student from my school admitted to Stanford per year for at least the last 4 years. (2 were a pair of world-class basketball players; the others were just smart, like me).</p>
<p>I was just admitted to Stanford EA. Both of the other two EA applicants were rejected; several of my friends are applying RD. I would hate for my admission to disqualify them. They all have excellent stats and EC, but none of them is spectacular. I go to a normal public school that seems to have a knack for producing a handful of geniuses each year.</p>
<p>there are many schools that have many more than 1 admit.
examples: exeter, andover, palos verdes, henry gunn, whitney, etc., but those are top private and top public schools</p>
<p>for most other normal public schools, i think it’s just more that the strongest applicant was admitted and others aren’t because they have someone to compare to.
but who knows…</p>
<p>one thing that i have heard is that for some colleges and high schools, if one student is admitted and another is waitlisted, the waitlisted student may be admitted if the other student decides to attend somewhere else.</p>
<p>At my school there are at least 3 attending Stanford who graduated last year, so possibly even more were admitted. I go to a good public school, but I wouldn’t call it like the best ever or anything. Hope that helps!</p>
<p>I am friends with two identical twin mexican brothers who were accepted as well as a member of our football team. Our team won the state championships last night and are ranked around top ten in nation.</p>
<p>My school always has at least 3 acceptances so… I dont think so. Right now, another girl and I were accepted for smarts and a swimmer signed on last month. And I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if another student get accepted regular. Then again, my school is a large 800ppl each grade</p>
<p>I live in Texas and go to a run-of-the-mill public and nobody has been accepted to Stanford from my school in years, much less attended.</p>
<p>My friend and I just got accepted REA, and not on the basis of athletics. However, Stanford was in talks with another student at our school to play Basketball. Don’t know the status of that now though.</p>
<p>My school has had 2 admits per year for the last decade or so, but last year no one was accepted. Everyone at my school thinks Stanford just hates us, and we are also a top public high school, with a ranking about 20 places higher than Gunn HS (in Palo Alto).</p>
<p>Lol no. My school had 5 admits last year, 2 via early action. It’s a math/science focused school so we typically have more people getting in MIT and Stanford, but we’re nowhere near Exeter level.</p>
<p>honestly, i don’t think your high school matters.
i mean, if you’re number one in a run-down school in la versus number one at philips exeter that makes a difference. but they don’t judge you based on where you go to school but how well you perform there.</p>
<p>I’m one of nine from my high school in the current freshman class at stanford. a lot of bay area private schools (and top public schools) have upwards of 10 admits each year. Crystal gets 10-12 admits each year, and Menlo, Castilleja, Paly, Gunn, and Uni all get in the double digits.</p>