There are a lot of schools that have higher acceptance stats overall compared to the stats at my school (like Lehigh’s stats was a 3.93 W for the average acceptance gpa and like a 1300 sat, which is pretty low).\
So it gave me hope!!! do college admission officers compare previously accepted kids at who went to your own high schooo’s stats to your own as part of the process, and if yes then is it more important than comparing your stats to applicants in the whole nation?
I was actually wondering this too.
Last year, a USC rep came to my school to give a college presentation. She said that admission officers don’t necesarily compare you to the entire nation, but rather, to those from your school that have applied and got admitted to the college + students in your own class that are applying to the same college. However, i’m not sure if this applies to all schools, i’d hope so tho.
If the question is "do colleges know my school and its rigor/grading policy " , the answer is yes. Your GC provides a school profile, and the reps responsible for each area know the schools in it.
Do they compare you to last year’s applicants? No. Different students, different tests, different teachers…
This works against the students at our school. They have to get higher grades than the college’s average in order to be accepted. If a college gets 30 applications from our school and the top 10 of those are kids have a 34 or above and high GPAs, then those are the kids accepted, even at a college where the average of those things is much lower. So, a student with a 31 and just a little lower grades (even if they are above the middle for the college) would get rejected if stronger students from our school apply. It happens all of the time.
Students at our school are always cognizant of who is applying where. They are vying for spots against each other.