<p>Hi everyone, do schools care about how many students they admit per school? I'm just curious to know because there are about 15 other kids at my school applying to Penn and some other top schools that I also plan on applying to. Thanks!</p>
<p>Some schools have a history where nearly the same amount is accepted every year to certain top schools or the number varies very slightly (no more than 2-3).</p>
<p>Some colleges and universities do not limit the number of applicants from a high school as well.</p>
<p>There is no set limit on how many students can be accepted from any one school. If there are 10 outstanding applicants from your school of your school’s 15 applicants, then they will accept 10. If there is only 1 outstanding applicant from your school, they will only accept the one out the 15 who applied. It all depends who’s applying.</p>
<p>There’s no set limit, but the Stanford Dean of Admissions has admitted that applicants from prestigious high schools (Stueyvesent, Exceter, Andover, Harvard-Westlake, etc) are admitted at a higher rate due to the school’s certainty they’ll be able to pay and preform to Stanford’s academic expectations. So for a very very small percent of students, what school they go to matters for admissions, but for the rest, it does not.</p>
<p>There’s no set amount, but if your school doesn’t have a reputation for sending a lot of kids to Ivies (isn’t a “prestigious/competitive” school) then you shouldn’t expect too many more than in the past. If your school sends only 1 or 2 kids to an Ivy a year then probably some similar amount will get in this year.</p>
<p>I think Harvard and some other top schools have something about regions, but not specific to schools.</p>
<p>Obviously UNC doesn’t care because it accepted like 50 kids from my school this year.</p>
<p>This is the oft-asked: “Quota at my school” question.</p>
<p>Coming from a well-known and very prestigious school may help you, but coming from an average or less-than-stellar school shouldn’t hurt you in any way.</p>