<p>Do you think a college's historical yield from a particular high school affects their current admission decisions?</p>
<p>For example, if over the last 4 years a college has offered admission to 25 students from a high school but none have chosen to attend, will the college be less likely to offer admission to a current applicant. The thinking being, "no one from that school ever comes here anyway"?</p>
<p>I’m worried about that too. But if they’ve continued offering admission over the past few years, I don’t know why this would be the year they stopped.</p>
<p>I think ultimately colleges are going to admit the students who they think are best qualified for the school and will not punish you just because others in the past have not attended that particular college.</p>
<p>I know that in MIT’s case they don’t even look at your high school until the very last stage when they compare applicants in the same high school to be able to tell GCs why the 10th ranked person got in over the 1st ranked person, for example.</p>
<p>I think that statement is true, to an extent. One of my friends goes to a very prestigious, magnet school, and he told me that one year, Stanford accepted ten people from their school and none went. Now they only accept one or two each year… Of course this is anecdotal evidence. Believe or don’t believe, whichever you want :P</p>