Do ivies only take a certain number from each school? Are there other schools that do this? Or, is this just a myth?
Myth. But at some level you fall out of the top 5 percent and it must get more difficult. And there are a few ivies.
No, you are competing against a much larger pool of applicants than your HS.
This is purely my own feeling on the matter, but given that most ivies accept what? Less than 8% of their respective applicants, I just wouldn’t expect many to take multiple kids from the same school. Slots are just so, so few, and applications so, so many.
What I’m actually saying is that I would expect most ivies to reject NEARLY EVERY applicant from a given hs.
I would, however, expect elite private boarding schools on East Coast to be the exception.
@privatebanker what are the chances of someone with a rank of 6.5%?
It’s a myth.No highly selective college has a min/max/quota.
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/20157192/#Comment_20157192
That said, if an average of one student per year from your HS is accepted to Harvard, it’s unlikely that the number will spike to 5 in the next admissions cycle.
I have no idea. My comment was directional in nature. Top six percent at Andover or philips Exeter? Or regular school and all students ranked higher apply. It’s up to essays and ecs. Is it Boston Latin going to Harvard or Moses brown school in providence. The numbers are different in all cases.
Nobody here can say. GPA/rank is but one part of the application. These colleges are looking at the entire application package.
We have heard that there is a number–its not 100% concrete-- but if you look at the school published data- the numbers match year to year with very little variability. Rank really has nothing to do with it anymore: the numbers can and do include all the special hooks and generally there isnt much overlap with estimated rank. Further–many schools dont rank anymore. Too many variiables.
My daughter’s school doesn’t rank anymore. They supply the college with a range of GPA (3.5-3.9; 4.0-4.5) with the percent of kids in each range; the college can then infer where the applicant falls.
Last year our school had 12 attend Cornell and 1 at just about every other Ivy. My daughter just finished freshman year so I’ll have to wait for this years stats to see if Cornell always has more.
The top schools likely don’t have a set quota of acceptances from any given high school. However, they value geographic diversity and there is only so far they’re going to get with that from one high school pool.