<p>So here's the situation:
Several years ago, a girl at our high school did scea at Stanford AND Harvard. After being admitted to both, she choose harvard over stanford, and obviously stanford found out. For the past 7 years, NO ONE has gotten into stanford from our school, even though our school consistently sends around 10 kids to HYP each year. Also, before the year the girl double early actioned, we had 1-3 people get into stanford each year.
So now again this year, 5 people applied SCEA Stanford and no one got in. We had 3 guys with over 2300 superscore. Also there was a guy who got into our state's Governor's School which is one of the most prestigous science programs. </p>
<p>So the final questions:
1) Is it possible to be blacklisted by Stanford...???
2) is there anything we can do to change this/ get your early action applications a fair review again.</p>
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<li>that was a dumb move on the part of your school to allow it :(</li>
<li>i don’t personally think any institution would purposely “blacklist” a high school and lose potential great students. if they like the applicants (regardless of the school), they will likely accept those students. good relations with schools sometimes do play a part in admissions, but i would think it would just be a positive to have good relations, not a negative to have bad relations. stanford can’t blame the new students for the school’s past mistakes, but they can give extra consideration students who come from a particularly good school</li>
<li>applicants will not get “a fair review again” because the first time was probably fair. regardless, they don’t accept appeals or other repeat applications unless you wait for another application cycle</li>
<li>my point 2 is completely speculative because i don’t work in the admissions office.</li>
<li>i really want some pancakes :)</li>
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<p>oh really? our school got blacklisted by princeton for like 5 years… we had to beg them to start accepting applications from us. they blatantly stated that they didn’t like the fact that our students rejected their offers a lot</p>
<p>Ouch. They seem to act butthurt over those students who did not choose to go to Princeton. Those students have their own reasons why they did not want to go…ya know? :(</p>
<p>wow, i can’t believe harvard accepted her. honestly, she should have been liked forced to go to a community college and learn humility. who’s to say she didn’t lie on other parts of the app if she lied about this?? </p>
<p>but i think it’d be very petty of stanford/princeton to blacklist a school, especially if it’s because the students fairly decided not to go there. if you are indeed blacklisted from stanford, that really sucks. but like you have to realize, 2300+ really isn’t all that special. sorry, but there are plenty of people who think they’ll get into stanford with that score, and most probably get rejected.</p>
<p>^I came up across an article while searching on google. It said that Harvard had a policy where if you apply to another school single choice early action, and harvard early action–and if you got into harvard, then harvard would still enroll you without consequences. Apparently it was a rejection to the entire early action system, which harvard wanted to change.
This was like 5 years ago?? im not sure, and i cant find any official info on harvard’s policy back then. maybe someone can verify??</p>
<p>Well my school thought Stanford hated us because they didn’t except anyone from our school for the past like 5-10 years. But then this year a girl got in… they’re really just looking for the applicants they want.</p>
<p>My school was legitimately blacklisted by MIT for some reason I’m not sure of. We got no acceptances, so apparently when they got a new admissions director our college counselor had to beg him to reevaluate our school.</p>
<p>My school seems to be blacklisted by MIT and Vanderbilt. Most kids from my school that get into Vandy never matriculate, so they rejet highly-qualified students. MIT also really dislikes my school lol. So yes, it is possible for a college to have shaky relations with certain high schools, thus leading to autorejects sometimes (just my 2 cents).</p>
<p>I’m thinking that happened for my school with Pomona too. Over the past few years they accepted a few kids, but no one has actually gone since 2007. Last year, 0 out of 8 got in, so maybe they’re realizing that they shouldn’t waste their time with my school.</p>
<p>Stanford totally does this, it is really awful. At our school, a student was accepted to Stanford, chose not to attend, and then no one from our school got accepted for the next few years. They all had the stats. Stanford definitely blacklists. No doubt.</p>
<p>^Just having the stats won’t get you in. Far from it. And I didn’t get the impression that Stanford acceptances were rolling into your school to begin with. </p>
<p>That said, my HS was blacklisted by Stanford (2 admits per year). And MIT (.5 admits per year). Not Yale, Harvard, or Princeton (7 plus each, similar number of applicants). Oh wait maybe we just sucked at getting students to do research, or get to ISEF, or reach AIME. But we were great at getting kids to volunteer, do political work, excel at varsity sports, get involved in the arts, be well-rounded academically.</p>
<p>the completely unfactual gossip that happens on CC these days is amazing
and people are completely willing to accept any excuse for not getting into a college. it’s almost entertaining, but really sad at the same time.
yes colleges have better relations with some schools but there is no reason to believe the college has something against your school</p>
<p>and by the way, no employee of stanford admissions office would “blatantly state that they didn’t like the fact that our students rejected their offers a lot” because they would likely lose their job. admissions employees have to be very careful about what they say because lawsuits by gullible unhappy applicants are not exactly uncommon</p>
<p>The first poster on this thread… do you go to a school with the initials E.B.H.S?
because the same thing happened at our school, same time 8ish years ago, same situation with harvard and stanford, and our school has apparently been blacklisted, too. >.< no fair.</p>
<p>I don’t think selective schools blacklist, but if a high school says that if a student is accepted to Stanford, s/he will attend, and is accepted, and then doesn’t attend, it could hurt the relationship between college and high school.</p>