<p>I read many times that ivies and other top schools' admissions have become extremely competitive this year due to a large number of applicants. But in my school (which isn't ranked or elite in any way), we've done better than ever before. For a small school, it was an achievement year with cornell, columbia, princeton, mit, stanford, uchicago, etc. was admissions up or down at your school?</p>
<p>i think admissions were down in my school for UCLA and UCB but WAYYYY up for UCSD for some reason.</p>
<p>Yeah, hello123, I have been wondering your question many times. As a junior, I am encouraged by the number of seniors in my school who are accepted to elite schools. Some of my friends presume this is a good signal cos this shows college's inclination for internation students ( yup, I am an inter student ). But I still doubt that. Looking at the admission statistics of elite schools on this board, by contrast, makes me worry for the future. Totally have no idea what next year will be like ! :)
Are you a junior too, hello 123 ?</p>
<p>We're in a pretty good school district. Three people got into Penn, one into Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, with a full ride to Swarthmore. This was better than average for our school this year.</p>
<p>Our students did quite well too, considering the competition. We had acceptances to every Ivy where people applied except Yale (and maybe Stanford), with multiple acceptances to Cornell, Dartmouth, and UPenn. Also MIT, Georgetown Walsh, Carnegie Mellon, WUSL, Haverford, Swarthmore, UChicago, NYU Stern, W&L, etc. However, for every one of those, there was probably one top student who didn't do very well and was rejected or waitlisted at schools like Rice, Emory, Vanderbilt. WUSL, etc.</p>
<p>Considering we send very few students to the U.S. (most people can't afford the $40,000 a year...besides, for $2000, McGill is right downtown), our school did pretty well. We had acceptances at Penn (2), Princeton, Georgetown, Northwestern, NYU, USC, Bowdoin, Colby, Colgate, Middlebury and Cambridge.</p>
<p>Admission at my school is pretty much the same every year. Almost everyone ends up going to a FL school (UF, FSU, UCF, USF, UNF). If they get rejected from one school, they are in at another.</p>
<p>There are only like 5-6 of us actually going out of state, including me. I'm going to the University of Tennessee, one of my friends is going to UNC, some girl is going to some small religious school in Georgia, and my other friend is probably going to go to Columbia (she can't decide where to go!). I don't know about the rest going OOS.</p>
<p>admissions are getting really, really hard for areas that have been historically strong (ny, nj, mass, penn, mary, cali) but has remained relatively the same difficulty for places other than the strong states.</p>
<p>TERRIBLE at my school this year. 1 at Princeton, rejections/waitlist at Harvard, Yale, MIT, CalTech, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, Stanford, etc etc...</p>
<p>Usually we send at least 3-5 to HYPSM, including last year, when we had about 10 into Ivies. This is worrisome for my class.</p>
<p>no good schools at my school but according to people i know my old school has some good ones...even people still applying and accepting TULANE(god *** is w/ my old town and that school so many sshs Alumnis go there and despite The hurricane PEOPLE R STILL GOING FROM MY TOWN NEXT YEAR!)</p>
<p>Rhett Butler: I'm a senior.
bob: i'm in cali, and my other friends from other schools did pretty well too. I don't think it changes much from year to year (although it did change dramatically if you look at the period of last 5 years).</p>
<p>My HS is getting incredibly competitive, nearly 50 kids (only 200 in my grade mind you) have gotten into umich and there are a lot getting into schools like carnegie mellon, northwestern, cornell, etc..</p>
<p>For my school (Public School) it's been both an excellent and bad admission outcome </p>
<p>It's been a EXTREMELY good outcome for Harvard...usually our school sends 1 maybe 2 to Harvard...this year we had 7 ACCEPTANCES (excluding me lol) </p>
<p>However, it's been a BAD BAD turnout for UPenn..which is really popular at our school...overall 10 ppl including me applied...I'm the only one that got waitlisted...everyone else was rejected (and they all had higher stats than i did...hmmm...lol) </p>
<p>But...mostly...our class just like all the other classes before us...always pick the easy way out and choose to apply to schools that are way to easy to get in...only the top 25-40 apply to the ivys and the top CC schools...all others just apply to the SUNY schools (we're in NY) and Pace U, U of Farfield...etc. </p>
<p>In the end...i am proud to say that i am the only one that applied and got accepted to UNC-Chapel Hill....GO TAR HEELS 2010!! (yes i am going there lol)</p>
<p>oh yea and there were a bunch of acceptances from MIT, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, Emory, Wellesly, Yale..but like i said it just went to top 25-40 (not me tho..I'm #35 lol)</p>
<p>I guess this is just Massachusetts penalty for being the best state in the union!!! ;-)</p>
<p>Small schools can always fluctuate greatly from year to year. My graduating class (of 171) this year did better than last year, and I'm from Massachusetts, but that's because there's such a small sample. By pure luck, you're going to have some smarter kids in one class compared to another. This is even more true of smaller graduating classes at schools from year to year.</p>
<p>We're only a third year school. My friend got into Georgetown, and that's the best I've heard.</p>
<p>Meh.</p>
<p>Over 30 kids from my school got into UCLA. We get a lot of acceptances every year from top schools, but for the first time ever someone got into Harvard, so that was cool.</p>
<p>heybucs - where in MA do u go to school?</p>