<p>so people in the same high school are always competing against one another... will schools curb the number of applicants they accept based on the school that you go to?</p>
<p>also, does it matter whether you're a boy or a girl? for example, someone told me that girls have a much better shot at getting into mit.</p>
<p>I don't know. I guess that might vary from school to school. We visited with the Vandy rep this weekend and he said that they pay no attention to how many they admit from each school/region. He said one year they admitted 19 of 25 applicants from one school and the next didn't admit even half from the same school.</p>
<p>Colleges say no
Some students think so</p>
<p>No one knows for sure</p>
<p>^^ Probably a better answer...lol</p>
<p>I could see the astute schools looking at how kids from schools do at their university and making decisions based on that, in part. If they have taken 10 top students from school A over the last few years and none of them graduated or all did poorly it may dissuade them from taking a chance on kids from that school in the future.</p>
<p>if your school sends a bunch of kids to a school one year, does that affect your chances of getting in the year after? (for better or worse?)</p>
<p>i ask b/c like i know at least 8 kids, if not more, got into duke from my school this year (most were total ivy rejects oddly enough), and now 4 are attending next year for sure. will this make it more or less likely for applicants from our school this year to be admitted? will they be resentful b/c so many kids didn't pick duke, or will they like my school b/c 4 really brilliant kids did decide to attend?</p>
<p>depends on the school..last year from my school at least 8 or 9 kids all got into Tech, and then the same about to our state school..at another school a dozen people got into Vanderbilt, and they were all from the same school.</p>
<p>The top colleges probably only accept a few kids from each school, not out of an malicious quota and more because they demand the qualified applicants that each school is likely only to have a few of them.</p>
<p>NO. This question was specifically addressed by Vanderbilt at a meeting in my town last week. They'll take as many great applicants from one high school as they can get. Just be a great applicant, and don't worry about where your classmates are applying. This answer generalizes for other colleges too.</p>
<p>4/8 for duke shouldn't hurt your chances. at my school, over the last 4 years, about 3-4 have been accepted each year to duke. only 1 person has matriculated.</p>
<p>but don't private schools usually have a better track record of sending students to top schools?</p>
<p>Some schools get the love treatment by top schools while other schools hate them.</p>
<p>At my school for example, about 5% of the class gets into Cornell (I go to a Public School). At some schools rather, 5% of the class gets accepted at Princeton (Public School Too). At some schools, no one gets accepted to any ivy. It varies.</p>
<p>If Princeton and other top schools are ok with taking several dozen kids from a high school each year, that settles this question in my mind.</p>
<p>I believe certain schools do send more students to the Ivys, Stanford, etc. That is why so many parents want their kids to go to schools like Harvard-Westlake, Bishop, Exeter, Andover, and other similar schools. These schools have close connections with the colleges admissions. The percentage from these schools I believe is higher than other schools.</p>
<p>I can only answer for the high school near us. There appears to be no pattern of acceptance to CHYMPS...</p>
<p>Here is the data on matriculants to each for Fall 2006/2007:</p>
<p>Caltech 0/1
Harvard 2/0
Yale 0/3
MIT 1/2
Princeton 2/0
Stanford 0/2</p>
<p>There appears to be no rhyme or reason why the results vary so much. I don't believe they have any quotas at all. The adcoms are busy enough as it is just reading through their 1500-2000 applications each, preparing comments for the committee meetings for the yes/maybe applicants, etc.</p>
<p>They'd prob. only notice if they just noticed they have 100 people from the same high school class in their freshman class (at top schools at least - at big state schools this is prob. the norm)</p>
<p>I don't think so.
I'm pretty sure there are plenty of high schools where no one gets into a certain college. </p>
<p>I don't think there's a maximum, though.</p>
<p>this is interesting. i don't think that previously accepted numbers from your school really play a big part for you. but i do think that its highly unlikely that, say, if 10 people fully qualified to go to harvard go to the same school, all of them will get in versus if the 10 people went to differing schools.</p>
<p>do you kind of get what i mean? i rambled a bit.</p>