<p>I'm curious if anyone knows whether colleges have a standard of limiting the number of students they accept from the same high school. My D is applying to most of the same schools as several other equally-talented kids from her high school. They all have the same top 3 list, and I'm wondering if a school would even consider accepting more than one student from the same high school? Does anyone have experience with this scenario?</p>
<p>Yes, college programs do accept more than one student from the same high school. I know of cases. </p>
<p>The issue of geographic diversity is more prevalent in regular college admissions than in BFA programs, which are looking more for talent than what state or high school an applicant is from.</p>
<p>I bet this wouldn’t be too much fun if there was any sort of competition among those at that same high school if they ended up at the same college…</p>
<p>bisouu - Funny you should mention that. 
That’s one of my main concerns.</p>
<p>It can be good or bad. Two very talented kids can inspire one another and share information about teachers and opportunities, or it can be the opposite. </p>
<p>The two most talented boys at my son’s high school had exactly opposite skills, one a singer with great verbal ability, the other a dancer who was a great physical actor. They helped one another.</p>
<p>In my experience, when there’s a toxic situation, the parents are at least partly to blame.</p>
<p>DoReMiMom…would your child choose another school if both got into the same school?</p>
<p>Bisouu…re: post #3…</p>
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<p>I don’t think it would be a problem, because there would be “competition” for casting among the entire program, since everyone is pretty darn talented. But I suppose it all depends on personalities. For instance, not everyone approaches it as “up against one another” in high school or even in college and be a bit low key over that and just cheer each other on. </p>
<p>I can think of something along these lines. Nobody else from our small rural high school went to my D’s BFA program, but a very good friend of my D’s from our state (who lived about an hour from us) did attend the same MT college program and even roomed with my D there for two years. The two girls had been “up against one another” since they were young in regional theater, took voice lessons together for years, went to theater camp and roomed together for a few years, and then were together constantly in college too. This friend is very talented (for example, upon her graduation, she was cast as a lead in a national tour, eventually went on to play that lead on Broadway and is now the understudy for a lead in another Broadway show…and played leads many times while in college too). I recall in junior year of college, for the mainstage musical at NYU/Tisch, for which a LOT of students can audition from any studio…this means beyond the MT studio…the final callback for the lead female in the production was my D and this long time theater friend / college roomie. I couldn’t believe out of hundreds of kids at Tisch, that a role would come down to two long time theater friends from rural Vermont! My D was the one who got the role (she truly fit the type more) and her friend was in the ensemble but both were happy for one another because the friend was the lead in the MT studio musical that semester and so both got something good. Generally speaking, I know my D roots for her pals and they do the same for her. What goes around, comes around!</p>
<p>PS, my post crossed with several others. But in my example, my D and her good friend from our area who were both in the same MT program are very different types. Both are talented but in the professional world, would unlikely be up for the same things.</p>
<p>My D and another girl from her HS were both accepted to the same program. I think schools look for talent and fit regardless of the high school.</p>
<p>Some programs are much more regional than others so this is probably not all that unusual at those schools. I will admit there are kids my D will be very happy not to encounter again in college.</p>
<p>There is a whole thread on this from last year ( I know bc I started it). The answer is yes, absolutely. It happens all the time. In fact, last year and the year before there were several sets of twins, and several programs accepted both. However, prodesse, as much as I love and respect you, gotta disagree with your statement that if there is a toxic situation, the parents are partly or more to blame. Sometimes there is just a kid who is toxic or mean or …I hate to say it, sick. We lived it. Luckily my D is now in a program where everyone respects and supports one another. But those kids do exist.</p>
<p>I took acting class at another high school (only a mile away) and both me and another guy who were in that same class and have been doing shows together since we were kids both go to the same college program in the same class. I also know other people who this has happened to it is not very odd. As to it being a toxic situation, me and the other kid were friends and still get a long well and it is nice to have someone riding that same bus home with you sometimes and gets the inside jokes that you make about home. It was also nice to have a friendly face going in that if I really did have trouble making friends one was there already.</p>
<p>Sometimes it’s a toxic drama teacher. Actually, I’d go with a 80% chance of a drama teacher causing the drama.</p>
<p>Amen!
Also, I think what area the kids are from really matters. Different places have different teachers and performance opportunities…I’ve heard them called “hot spots.” So if there are two kids from the same high school and both have had the opportunities that area/school provides, it’s much more likely. Especially if the school in question is a performing arts school. Or if they live in a city.</p>
<p>My daughter transferred into PSU’s BFA program her sophomore year. Of the 12 kids in her class one other girl was from her same high school, and a 3rd girl was from a nearby high school in our same District. So in a class of 12, 3 girls were from the same Dist. in So. Cal. While my D was not in the initial audition bunch for freshman year as she was a later transfer, PSU didn’t seem to care if they accepted students from the same area. I think that is pretty typical of MT programs.</p>
<p>This happened to my daughter. She and another girl from her high school class were both accepted to and attended the same BFA MT program.</p>
<p>My D attended NYU Steinhardt VP (MT). In her senior year she was cast as Belle in her high school musical. The Beast was also accepted to the same program at NYU (but chose to go to UNC instead.)</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for your reassurance. My D and the other girl from her school both have the same top 5 school choices, and although they’re very different (my D is a singer-alto, actor, dancer and the other girl is a dancer, actor, singer-soprano) they’ve been pitted against one another since grade school, and they’re both very competitive. This at least removes one of the stressors from my list LOL.</p>
<p>USkoolfish, I did a double-take about your post because it sounded so familiar! One of my son’s friends, at a different high school, played Belle. Both she and the young man who played the Beast were both accepted to the same top program! It wasn’t NYU, though.</p>
<p>DoReMiMom, I’m sure your D and her friend are also different physical types which, combined with their different strengths and vocal types, should distinguish them enough to outweigh their similarity of being from the same school…if that even has an impact on a college’s admissions decision-making process.</p>
<p>DoTeMiMom, your description of you D and the other girl at her HS made me do a double take. You could have been describing my D (she’s just like your D, singer-alto, actor, dancer) and the other girl (who sounds just like your other girl, dancer, singer-soprano, actor) from her HS who are now both auditioning for the same colleges and have been pitted against each other since grade school (with varying results over the years). Throw in a third girl also doing MT auditions from the same HS but girl 3 is a lyric soprano-actor-dancer and you have a whole bunch of competitiveness in one non-performing arts high school! The stressed music director who is having her own problems this year even double cast the HS musical for the first time ever because there was so much talent among the senior girls and she didn’t want to leave anyone out, LOL!</p>
<p>Pretty sure my D would be happy to see the last of at least one of these girls unless they both get into a college she desperately wants to attend but I’m also relieved to hear that kids from the same school can be accepted to the same college although everyone at her HS is playing applications/auditions/acceptances/deferrals very close to the vest so she probably won’t know how the whole process shakes out until it’s all over!</p>