<p>I go to a public high school in MN. It's not SUPER competitive or anything, don't get me wrong, there are a few REALLY competitive students but at the end of the day, it's just a normal public high school of large size -- just mostly feeds kids to the state university (UMD and UM-Twin Cities) and then the other local small-private colleges. </p>
<p>It houses grades 10-12 (I'm currently a sophomore) and my class is about 500 kids with a total of 1500 kids enrolled. My grade has about 3-4 really competitive kids (myself included) and I'm wondering if the top schools (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, etc) would only accept the top out of us 4 or is it still possible for these schools to accept more than one of us? </p>
<p>Basically, this questions talks about individual school quotas.</p>
<p>These schools are not choosing the best food to eat or the best mango in the store. They are choosing our future. If they find a candidate interesting there is no reason why they should not accept him or her. </p>
<p>Please don’t discourage yourself and just try your best.</p>
<p>Absolutely yes! My kid’s high school is public and large. Regularly sends multiple kids to each of these: Harvard, Yale, Princeton and all the rest of the top / elite schools every year. In recent years, five to Harvard alone is not uncommon. Focus on your own preparation, making the best use of the opportunities available to you. Multiple students from your school including can you surely can get in if you are all qualified - individually. Good luck.</p>
<p>^ yes but the OPs school sounds uncompetitive and sends few, if any, kids to ivies each year. Harvard may accept 1, 2, 3, all 4 of you, or may reject all of you.</p>
<p>@adityaparikh1: Although the Admissions Committee hasn’t made a hard-and-fast statement on it, it stands to reason that there is no rigid “quota” for an individual school. That being said, the school does have an interest in assembling an ethnically and geographically diverse student body.</p>
<p>Some schools with strong academics (and strong applicants) send 10+ students per year to Harvard.
Some high schools might only have one student who secures an acceptance from Harvard.
I’d say admission has more to do with the individual student than the high school at which he/she matriculated.</p>
<p>FYI, when I was an undergrad, there was at least one student in my class who hailed from the state of Minnesota. She went to a small public school in Warroad, MN.</p>
<p>Work hard. Be really involved in your high school community. Take advantage of everything your school has to offer. Then, when it comes time, apply to Harvard and all of those other schools. You never know what might happen. Good luck.</p>
<p>Individual school quotas don’t exist. You are not competing against your classmates any more than you’re competing against kids across the country. If you don’t get in, it’s not Jim from homeroom’s fault for taking your spot, except insofar as he’s one of the 1600 or so who took your spot.</p>
<p>If your school subscribe to naviance, then you will be able to see the information for each college that students from your HS applied, were accepted/rejected/waitlisted for the last 5 years.</p>