<p>if the last few people who've applied/went to that college:</p>
<p>1) failed out
2) got arrested for drugs
3) all went to another school instead
4) backed out of ED
5) committed suicide?</p>
<p>College admissions officers have memories. </p>
<p>If they have been told things by a guidance counselor which are less than truthful, or feel like the truth has been stretched too much, then the admissions officer could use that fact or pattern against future applicants.</p>
<p>This is very true. For some reason my high school does not get along with Cornell. (Only one kid there has been accepted there in the past 5 years, somebody who got a 36 on the act and goes to harvard now was rejected)</p>
<p>i guess i'm not going to MIT then</p>
<p>Don't give up hope. Seriously, if you are worried, you could always offer to meet the admissions officers. </p>
<p>I have been one of like maybe 3 people to come to my college from my high school in six years. My high school ranked very low in state testing. I am also originally from a state most places make fun of if you are not from the northern end. So I understand.</p>
<p>yeah the only people that ever get into stanford at my school are athletic recruits.</p>
<p>we don't have a good relationship with Stanford, only a recruited athlete got in, not even someone who got into harvard/princeton/columbia got into stanford. Our rival school however sent over 5 people to stanford in one year, and i doubt they were more spectacular than our students.</p>
<p>My math teacher says that MIT hates my school. No one's gotten in for ages.</p>
<p>I think we have a decent relationship with Penn, Bucknell, and Lafayette. We still only sent like 2 or 3 kids each year though.... 2 got into Penn last year. Not too shabby, but my school is still an epic fail imo.</p>
<p>A friend of mine's school has bad relations w/ Brown</p>