<p>In other words, do colleges make it harder for some students from certain high schools because of past experiences with their students, administration, etc? For example, my school has had only two MIT acceptances in the past 25 years, despite many people applying each year, and many getting into Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, etc. One of the acceptances was ten years ago, and the student chose Harvard over MIT, and the other was three years ago, and they did the same thing and chose Harvard over MIT. Do you think MIT maybe "blacklist" or make it more difficult to get into because of these students, or for other reasons?</p>
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<p>No. Harvard and MIT have a fair number of cross-admits every year. Some pick Harvard. Some pick MIT.</p>
<p>If you want to apply to MIT, go ahead. Don’t worry about your HS being on a black list.</p>
<p>They might blacklist. A few years ago at my high school, quite a few kids applied to and were accepted to Princeton. None planned on attending and waited until the last minute to tell Princeton. The next few years, nobody was accepted. However, it was more about etiquette than preferring another school. Just my thoughts.</p>
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<p>I highly doubt that. I expect it was about [Regression</a> toward the mean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean]Regression”>Regression toward the mean - Wikipedia).</p>
<p>Some do, an anonymous admissions officer that ran a twitter feed (a bunch of us think they were from Dartmouth) said that their school blacklists a high school for a year if an ED applicant gets in and then violates the agreement applies RD to other schools and ultimately picks one of them…</p>
<p>I was thinking the same thing since the last person in my HS to get into Harvard was a part of the class of 1960. With MIT, about 9 years ago someone was excepted. And there have been no acceptances since then. However, every single year someone is accepted into Cornell.</p>
<p>Cornell has a higher admit rate than H or MIT.</p>
<p>A college sometimes will blacklist a high school for violating the rules of college admissions. For example, a college might blacklist a high school if they allowed a student to apply to multiple colleges SCEA, or if they allowed a student to apply to one college SCEA and to another ED, or if they allowed a student to apply to multiple colleges ED, etc. Other than that – no – colleges don’t blacklist high schools. They may become annoyed if students they accept one year don’t matriculate, as in kenyjubilant’s example with Princeton, but they’ll accept the next wiz-kid that comes along if they are truly interested in that student. </p>
<p>That said, some colleges do have better relationships with certain high schools than others. Some of that has to do with the caliber of student a high school graduates, and some of that has to do with the personal relationship a guidance counselor or college advisor at a high school has with a college Admissions Office.</p>
<p>Totally agree with @gibby. Hope that students from previous classes had not violated any binding agreement with the schools you’re applying to. If they just chose to attend others, I don’t think that would be a problem.</p>
<p>ok is it 5:00 eastern time or 5:00 western time…</p>
<p>Nobody from my school has EVER gotten into Brown, despite several getting into HYP, etc.</p>
<p>Hehe. My school has a similar relationship with slick908’s regarding MIT. I almost thought you were one of us, until you said it was about choosing a different school. Our problem is, someone was accepted and went to MIT, then sued the school.
People still get in occasionally, but it seems to only be the uberstudents. People who you’d expect, based on stats, to get in easy get waitlisted or deferred. </p>
<p>Why did @runningforlife bring up a year old thread on this with a nonsensical question?</p>
<p>Certainly @runningforlife intended to post that elsewhere.</p>