Do some college not like certain high schools?

[cobrat]

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I’m skeptical of the idea that whether students from a high school do well at a particular college affects later applicants to that college. Is there really a feedback loop to admissions on how well students do? I do think that if a couple of students go to a “fresh” college from a high school, and really like it there, others will follow.

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<p>Back when boarding schools had the inside track on admissions to elite private colleges, it used to be a common practice for those colleges to not only track student performance from such boarding schools, but also to send grade transcripts back to the headmaster. </p>

<p>This is probably one basis for those ideas. </p>