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<p>I agree. I’ve seen it in my youngest D’s high school. It’s often the case that when one student from the high school gets into one of the selective LACs, the following year there are usually more students who apply and are admitted. The adcoms become familiar with a particular high school and know that the kids from the school do well and students in the following years are admitted. I saw it with my D and a classmate–the two of them were the first kids from their high school to go to a selective LAC (there had been one other student admitted years before). Both of these kids did well and thereafter more kids from the high school applied to the LAC and the LAC admitted more kids from the school. </p>