<p>...When a college notifies applicant that they've been accepted, does the college also notify the applicant's high school?</p>
<p>I think it might vary by school. From volunteering in my sons' high school guidance office over the past several years, I know that the guidance counselors often receive communications from various schools as to which students are being considered/accepted/waitlisted/rejected etc. Sometimes the communication is informal (such as via phone call) and sometimes via a letter , or in the case of some state and more local schools that a lot of our graduates go to, by giving the counselor a list of admitted students.</p>
<p>Two years ago, one student was shocked when the counselor congratulated him at school--his letter from Princeton (ED) did not come until the next day!</p>
<p>I've also seen the other (sad) side--like when one student kept talking to the other kids at school about one school she had gotten in to, when the counselor knew she had been waitlisted .</p>