<p>I'm really worried about this same thing. I'm really hoping to be accepted at Stanford, but the current sal of my class wants to go there, too. (I'm #4) I'm hoping to kind of "beat her to the punch line" with going early decision...</p>
<p>We had #1 and # 5 or 6 get into Princeton... As long as your credentials stack up to others in the overall applicant pool, it doesn't matter how many from your school compete with you.</p>
<p>I think UCLA and Berkeley doesn't care either. Cause I know schools were over 10 or 15 people get into each</p>
<p>maybe top colleges have certain preferences for certain schools.
Sounds like they may be looking at how past accepted students' performance and how elite that high school is compared to all the other high schools in the city/town</p>
<p>I'm at a bad disadvantage because we're a new school but at the same time, we were ranked #2 in nyc after stuyvasent. our first graduating class this year... most of them went to bing and stony which are like SUNY elite. Some went to skidmore and one got into cooper union. I know no one applied to the ivys in class of 2006.</p>
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Yale cares with my school. They usually only let one kid in a year. This year there were two because one was a sports recruit.
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<p>It seems to me like your school just doesn't produce many people who can get into Yale. This isn't an insult to your school; almost no schools send more than 1-2 kids a year to a school like Yale.</p>
<p>I honestly don't think any colleges (at least the top colleges which everyone cares about) care. If they want you, they want you. They take the students they want by reading their applications, not going through each high school and picking two they like the most. The only disadvantage might be that if you have many strong students in your class it might drag down your rank or something. Or, if your school has, say, 50 students who would normally get into Yale, it probably won't take all 50. But that's not going to happen anyway.</p>
<p>I agree, I doubt ANY school cares unless the number is huge--it's all about getting the best.</p>