Do admissions officers let your high school know if you were accepted or not?

Applying to College
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<p>Do high schools ever find out what students were accepted into what schools without students telling them?</p>

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<p>I’m pretty confident the answer is no- the school only notifies the applicant. Our college counselors have said there is no way they know until the students tell them…</p>

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<p>In most cases no. Some colleges have long term relationships with different school GCs and may let them know.</p>

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<p>No, but our school college advisor did get a letter from Columbia (I think. It was an Ivy) with a list of students that had applied.</p>

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<p>Perhaps for ED acceptances – I think the GC still needs to sign an ED statement for the student, so maybe they’re told about those.</p>

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<p>While it is true that GCs must sign ED agreements, at our kids’ HS the GCs do not find out directly from schools which students were accepted to their ED schools.</p>

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<p>Likely the answer depends on the HS. A private college prep HS with a low “student:college counselor” ratio probably keeps close tabs on admissions results, and counselors probably are on first name basis with a number of college reps who serve their region. DS’ HS’ counselors know where everyone was accepted and not.</p>

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<p>That’s a good question. I bet there are a lot of high school students who would love to say they got accepted into super-competitive schools like Stanford or Yale–even if they didn’t-- to save face.</p>

<p>I know that at my sons’ (very competitive) public high school, the GC was in the loop as to who got in where. She was certainly aware of ED acceptances, because the school blocked the sending of any additional transcript in compliance with the ED agreement. </p>

<p>She also seemed quite aware of which students had gotten in where, especially with respect to the schools that people “care” about. For one thing, many universities contact GCs to discuss applicants from the high school.</p>

<p>They may not get a list from a university before the students themselves get their news, but it seemed to me that she did get a list of students accepted from various schools, and she was also quite aware of wait lists, because she needed to work with those students through the end of the school year.</p>