Do ivy leagues pick many people from one school?

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<p>Hi, my question is 'Do ivy leagues pick many people</p>

<p>from one school if they are all qualifying?'</p>

<p>i'm asking because i think i can get into ivy leagues</p>

<p>with my stats but what concerns me is that some other people from my school</p>

<p>who have better scores than mine</p>

<p>also applied to ivy leagues.</p>

<p>Also, my high school</p>

<p>is 20th best in the nation among public schools and 4th best</p>

<p>among magnet schools.</p>

<p>Do the colleges consider the difficulty of the high school </p>

<p>when they select students?</p>

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<p>Well consider other aspects of the applications besides scores in your evaluation as well…the fact that others have higher scores really does not mean that they have an advantage if you are, for example, an Intel finalist, a sports recruit, whatever. If you felt like your essays portrayed you uniquely, you should do fine. </p>

<p>Last year my school has 9 admitted to Stanford-so that’s not an “Ivy”-so I’m sure that most colleges take as many that are qualified, and that if they happen to be from the same school, great.</p>

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<p>Abt 11 got in from mine to penn. So there’s no quota as such actually!</p>

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<p>12 out of 15 ED applicants got in this year from my school.</p>

<p>Probably another 20+ will be applying RD, and usually about 75% of our Penn RD applicants get accepted.</p>

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<p>I think it depends on the high school and the Penn program. If you attend one of those expensive private schools in New England or a well-respected public, then yes Penn will take several from your school. But if you attend some no-name public school in Salinas or a small Christian school in Seattle, then I think once one kid is accepted to Penn it will be harder for other kids in the school to make it from that school. I think this is especially true for Penn’s special programs like Wharton, Huntsman, Jerome Fisher, etc. I can’t remember which program I was looking at but the penn.edu website had pictures of the students in the program and no two were from the same high school.</p>

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<p>@Oldcollegetry: hey as a huntsman 14 student I just want u to know that 3 guys who will be with me as part of the huntsman class of 2014 from next year are from the same high school!</p>

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<p>There are four kids from my high school class in Vagelos, of the 13 total from my class at Penn. I wouldn’t hold any superstitions about programs/acceptances. They accept the best all around applicants. Period.</p>

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<p>^Dude, then call Penn and tell them their website is #$%^ed. They have pictures of the the Vagelos classes. Here’s the last one they put up: [profile</a> 3](<a href=“Home | Penn Life Sciences & Management Program”>Home | Penn Life Sciences & Management Program) </p>

<p>Each kid is from a different high school.</p>

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<p>Vagelos LSM is different from Vagelos MLS</p>

<p>It also appears one has dropped out.</p>

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<p>^Help us out, bio. What is Vagelos MLS? Is that something high school students can apply to? I don’t think so. The bottom line is that the special programs at Penn that high school students can apply to don’t seem to have more than one kid from a single high school. That was my observation. Akkipenn says that’s not true for Huntsman. What school did you go to Akki? Aren’t only like 50 kids admitted to Huntsman?</p>

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<p>I don’t know about this. The JWS kids (for 2013, at least) are from all over the place. There’s the usual tri-state people, but there are people from Kansas, West Virginia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Missouri, Nova Scotia, Australia and I’m sure some other less represented places in a class of 28.</p>

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<p>vagelos mls is the accelerated master’s degree program in biochemistry</p>

<p>[Vagelos</a> Scholars Program in Molecular Life Sciences](<a href=“http://www.sas.upenn.edu/biochem/vspmls.html]Vagelos”>Vagelos Molecular Life Sciences Program – Penn Arts & Sciences)</p>

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<p>MajorLazer, you’re correct and that was my point. Penn’s specialized programs for high school students (and I’m not talking about Masters programs) are very selective and almost never have more than one kid for any one high school. The OP’s question was whether Penn will accept more than one kid from a single high school. My answer was “sure” especially if that high school is a well-known one with high achievers across the board. But I also feel that if you want to attend one of Penn’s special programs like Huntsman, Jerome Fisher, etc., don’t except more than one kid from each school to be selected. I also feel that if you go to some obscure public school in Midland, Texas, don’t expect Penn to take more than one from your class, even for regular Penn admission.</p>

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<p>All of these comments are absolutely valid. Obscure high schools in the middle of nowhere may not successfully get students admitted to specific programs. In addition, their chances of getting multiple kids into Penn (or having multiple applicants) is slim. I went to “one of those expensive new england schools.” Look, my only point is that Penn won’t discriminate against you because you came from the same school. They are looking for geographical diversity, but (especially at boarding schools) you can get geographical diversity even though the kids go to the same school (they come from all over the world). </p>

<p>I would like to correct my statement about the number of kids from my high school in specialized programs. In all honesty, my only knowledge of those numbers was that those kids were “offered” spots in Vagelos (as well as Huntsman, Ben Franklin Fellows). I do not know for certain if they took the spots. It might seem like a no brainer to take a spot in Vagelos - but I personally would never take a spot in a program that rigorous.</p>

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<p>@oldcollegetry: I never said 3 from my high school, but I have spoken to 3 who have got into huntsman from the same highschool in france this year! You should call penn today and let them know,</p>