<p>Has anyone noticed if Yale, and most ivies for that matter, seem to only accept one student from your high school each year or is it just my son's NJ school? Thanks</p>
<p>The number is three for my school every year.</p>
<p>wow, what state is your school in?</p>
<p>There are no quotas per school. Applicants are being compared to other applicants in their region. If it turns out that your school only had one every year then Yale thought only one was compelling enough. The poster who said they take three is coming from a school where three were able to get in for the last number of years because Yale thought they were compelling candidates.</p>
<p>that's definitely not true. yale took 13 from my school last year, and the rest of the ivies took way more than one as well.</p>
<p>Agree with collegebound5. The high school whose admissions I have watched most closely and over a long period gets between 0 students admitted and 2 students + a waitlist admitted with 0 happening about once every five years. I suspect they'd admit 3 students if their applications warranted it.</p>
<p>It varies. But for a number of years it's been anywhere from 0 to 3 from my former high school.</p>
<p>we get about 1 a year. and thats kind of strange because we get 3-5 to harvard every year. then again we almost always are completely shut out from princeton, stanford. and only 1-2 to brown. its strange.</p>
<p>I come from a pretty crappy, average public school and we had two get in last year. Those same two also got into Harvard, so I highly doubt quotas exist.</p>
<p>Let me rephrase that. There are some schools like the one that one California poster is from where the high school has a clear relationship with a particular college, in this case Yale. Perhaps many Yale students have come from that high school and performed very well, and Yale thinks very highly of that schoool and always takes a large number. Short of a special relationship, Yale and other colleges have no quotas per high school</p>
<p>Last year yale accepted 5 students and only 7 applied. Yale accepts about 50% of the students that apply each year from my school.</p>
<p>I'm an eighth grader, but at my future high school, which is a small, private day school, (about 80 students per grade) sends about 6 students to ivy leagues each year. 75% of the students who apply to Yale were accepted, and 50% of the students who applied to Harvard were accepted.</p>
<p>Schools like Andover, Groton, SPS, Deerfield, etc. send like 9478932479324 to ivies each year.</p>
<p>Colleges definitely have relationships with high schools. Princeton rarely took anybody from my school for a couple years, then in the past two years have accepted 23 people. On the other hand, Stanford hasn't taken anyone from my school in the past two years; in fact, a Stanford SCEA deferree and eventually was rejected, but got into Harvard. Our other Harvard admit also didn't get into Stanford.</p>
<p>There are also some anomalies, though, who are so competitive that they seem to defy schools' relationships.</p>
<p>Thanks for your responses. Perhaps coming from NJ where Yale has so many applicants, it only hurts our situation (no georgraphic diversity). Right now, my son just keeps thinking that the number 2 and 3 students, who are applying to Yale will kill his chances (he is number 8 but with higher SAT, AP's, more interesting activities). So, I know this sounds horrible, but he may apply early decision to his second choice school. We have seen students not get into their first choice and then lose out on their second choice because lesser qualified students were admitted early decision. I know it sounds crazy. But this is what he is worried about.</p>
<p>its only because yale is so selective. it's difficult to find that many acceptable applicants when you only have 1300~ seats in your freshman class...</p>
<p>Without admitting that there are "quotas" - and there aren't, strictly speaking - top schools <em>do</em> seem to maintain a certain "pattern" when it comes to admissions from established feeder schools. (I define "feeder schools" here as schools which regularly have one or more admits to Harvard or whatever school every year.)</p>
<p>The college in question appafrently has found that applicants from those schools tend to do well, and thus try to avoid discouraging their kids from applying by "shutting out" the school.</p>
<p>Whatever the colleges may say, I believe this to be true after many years of observation. If a school's applicants are always turned down, guidance counsellors will tend to steer top applicants elsewhere (as they should, given their reponsibility for getting kids into college.)</p>
<p>yale seems to take only one from my school every year as well.</p>
<p>as much as i don't believe in quotas...</p>
<p>yale took one kid each year for the last two years, none before that. I did a little checking and found that one was a softball recruit (avg. 650/800 sats) and the other did extensive volunteer work with autistic children. pfffft.</p>
<p>harvard takes one kid every two years. they're due to take one this year. woot.</p>
<p>my class usually gets 30-40 ivies out of a class around 180-200. last year i think 7 went to yale.</p>
<p>Traveldude, what state is your high school in?</p>