<p>Let's just be hypothetical. 5 kids apply to a top-20 university. Will that school not even care that they go to the same HS, and just treat them as if the HS they go to doesn't matter? Or will they only accept 2 out of the 5, or maybe 1? I'm just wondering because like most HS, at my HS, kids all the time ask each other where they're applying/where they want to go. To be honest, I just lie. I don't need these pests knowing where I apply. What do you guys think? And with my luck with recent posts, I won't be surprised if this gets less than 4 posts. -_-</p>
<p>By the way, I'm talking about private high schools, less than give or take 250 students.</p>
<p>What school are you possibly applying to that other kids are applying to? I don’t even think that 99% of the kids at our school know what Emory/Rice/Vandy are. Of course I know what they are and will be applying ED to all three ( ). You better hope they don’t care because I’m on the hunt for pride dignity and arrogance, well actualy I probably already have arrogance, but dignity and pride would be more than nice.</p>
<p>Just actually read your whole post… Man you describe secretive dirtbag. I knew you wanted to apply to Scranton all along you just were hiding it from me so I wouldn’t apply. Shame on you. You should have know someone with a 33 wouldn’t degrade themselves down to Scranton :). And I’m a pest… **** you! Thanks for the train pass today btw.</p>
<p>^And just how do you intend to apply ED to three different schools?</p>
<p>Anyway, I think colleges tend to not have high school quotas. After all, what good would it possibly do them? They might turn down some very well-qualified students for someone not quite as good, after all- and for what? A silly rule about how many kids they can accept from a particular school? (For clarification, though- is it your class that’s 250? Or the entire school?) I’ve heard admissions officers asked this before, and the answer is always no.</p>
<p>Universities typically have what is called multiples. So they will look at schools where they have received at least 3 or 4 applications. Universities typically do NOT have a limit, or quota, from a particular high school. They simply look at students in context of each other becuase it often reveals who is taking the most challenging curriculum, who has the highest GPA, and where the applicants rank versus their own high school peers. To give you an example though, we once received 12 applications from a high school and we admitted 8 of them because 8 of the students were qualified.</p>
<p>Our school had 337 graduates last year. Don’t know how many applied, but 34 were accepted to Cornell. That’s 10% of the class. Obviously some colleges have no quotas.</p>
<p>I don’t think this is a stupid question. It does seem that some top colleges don’t take more than a couple of students from some high schools. But there’s not much you can do about this, except perhaps to come up with some colleges to apply to that aren’t popular at your high school. Also, I think it’s better not to lie, but to just decline to say, or maybe say, “U. of Local and some others.”</p>
). You better hope they don’t care because I’m on the hunt for pride dignity and arrogance, well actualy I probably already have arrogance, but dignity and pride would be more than nice.</p>