<p>Entering October, many admission offers went to states for information session. For a same question, I found that different schools have different policies. The admission offers I met came from Brown University; The University of Chicago; Columbia University; Cornell University; Rice University and Dartmouth College. Following is my question:</p>
<p>The question is about high school an applicant attended. Lets take an example, there are two high schools, both schools offer same 17 AP courses, but school A allows students to take AP course at 9th grade while school B dont allow students to take AP course until 10th grade. School A and B have 90% and 70% 4-year college enrollment rate respectively. School A has more than 12 Ivy school enrollments every year while school B only has 1 or 2 Ivy school enrollment every other year. How a high school an applicant attended, including public high school with different policy and profile or/and private high school, may influence her/him to enter your school? </p>
<p>On one side, Elisha Aderson, assistant director from Brown does count the high school as a big factor: an applicant with rank #1 in school B may have same consideration as an applicant with rank #10 in school A. However, Colin Melindo, senior assistant director of admission from The University of Chicago, was standing at other side: No, we only look at the applicant his/her self, not school background comparison. Rebecca Bromberg, senior assistant director of admission from Columbia seems is in the middle: We take applicants comparison in the region level.</p>
<p>As this issue touches factor weight beyond an applicant themselves. Beside a few schools like TJHSST in VA or Phillips Academy in MA, will generally public high school has same weigh in a region? What was your experience on the issue?</p>