<p>For example, I am a rising senior who plans to apply to Claremont McKenna College this fall. Last year, a student from my school was accepted there and will attend in the fall. Rumor has it that he is the only person to ever be accepted from my school, though I'm not sure how many have applied. Will the admissions committee consider this at all? What effect could this have, if any?</p>
<p>The good news is that someone from your school can get an offer. Low or no prior admits could mean that they don’t find academically prepared students from your school often, or people just don’t apply often. I don’t know what they have to consider, you can spend a lot of time grasping at straws and speculating. </p>
<p>My stats are high enough, I was just wondering what effect this could have. </p>
<p>Katie: you can do a search on “quota” for individual high schools. This is an oft-asked question.</p>
<p>My answer is always: for what purpose? Unless we’re talking about a “feeder” school like Thomas Jefferson or Choate, etc. colleges have no reason to limit the # of admits to any school. The only reason they’d do that is to set aside slots for other schools. But why? They don’t need to spread out the love. They’ll admit whom they want, whent they want and in the quantities they want. They could admit 10 for 5 years in a row and then zero for the next dozen.</p>
<p>I wasn’t talking about stats, there are plenty of 4.0 students who are not academically prepared for rigorous schools.</p>
<p>What T2 said.</p>
<p>Effect of what on what is not clear. Effect on you is nonexistent.</p>
<p>Any prior acceptances should only be viewed as positive or neutral, unless you had someone refuse an ED acceptance for less than acceptable reasons. In general, admissions is like everyone else, they like to go fishing where they’ve caught fish before.</p>
<p>I was just checking our HS new Naviance stats last night. I was curious whether the fact that some schools accept lots of our students but no one ever goes is starting to have an effect? The answer is no, they still accept tons of kids from our HS and no one ever goes. So if that doesn’t have a negative effect, not much will, other than the ED problem mentioned above.</p>
<p>@MrMom62: "I was curious whether the fact that some schools accept lots of our students but no one ever goes is starting to have an effect? The answer is no, they still accept tons of kids from our HS and no one ever goes. "</p>
<p>Agree: Schools like Case, Rochester.
Disagree: Schools like U Chicago, Northwestern, Wash U (They value their yields a lot).</p>
<p>(Based on our high school college application history)</p>
<p>That is certainly true for certain schools, but the schools you mention don’t exactly admit students by the handful. The first two do, however, and they are some of the ones I did notice as continuing to award our HS a lot of acceptances.</p>