<p>So this upcoming month I will be applying early action to UVA, and I definitely have the scores and ECs needed to get in out of state. However, so Is another classmate of mine, except his application is probably twice as good as mine; he is top of the class and has scores and extracurriculars good enough for virtually any college. Although I have a great shot at getting in, I am no competition for this classmate, but will this truly be a factor for admission? In other words, are my chances of getting in affected by the fact this other classmate is applying as well? Do colleges limit the amount of students accepted per school by comparing applicants from that school? Any comment is greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Colleges do not limit by school when it comes to two students or even a handful of students. Our daughter’s graduating class was only about 60 students and none previously had been admitted to a specific Ivy and this past year, two students of just 60 were admitted and are attending. That being said, I won’t lie when I tell you that when it comes to larger groups of students from the same school, it can make a difference.</p>
<p>^^Exactly. Harvard isn’t going to accept 50 kids from one school, no matter how brilliant they all are, but one or two or three won’t make a difference, especially at a place as big as UVA. My daughter goes to a selective LAC less than 1/10th the size of UVA and her HS got three kids in this year, which rarely happens for a college that size, and they’re all good, but not top, top, top of the class type students. </p>
<p>I think you have little to worry about and there’s not much you can do even if it were a problem. You might even be the stronger candidate because you don’t know what they’re looking for in the whole package, you really don’t. I’ve even seen cases where the apparent weakest of three candidates gets in and the other two don’t because of some X-factor we just don’t see.</p>