<p>As in, does it lower my chances if five qualified people from my high school apply?</p>
<p>no but it lowers your chances if your school generally generates applicants of higher quality than you (i.e. not just this year). My high school class had 9 people accepted to brown and 6 attended out of 47 students in my class.</p>
<p>on the other hand, if you replace “high school” with “geographical region” then yes, it does lower your chances.</p>
<p>It depends on your high school and what you bring to the table.</p>
<p>If you are a recruited athlete or do something truly special, then Brown could care less who else at your high school applies. If they want you, they’ll accept you.</p>
<p>But it is rare for more than one applicant from a high school to get in. First off, with an overall acceptance rate of less than 10%, your chances of getting in are slim to begin with. If fewer than 10 students from your school apply, the chance that more than one gets in would beat the odds. </p>
<p>While Brown looks at every applicant as an individual, they do compare you to other applicants from your school, and in many cases will accept the best of the applicants. The exceptions are magnet schools (like Stuyvesant in NY) and private prep schools, where multiple applicants are accepted. </p>
<p>i<em>wanna</em>be_brown’s situation is really very rare. It’s more typical for either no one to get in, or one student to be accepted.</p>
<p>Each year it seems that it is more of a percentage of the applicants from a certain area, not from a certain school. Now I’m in a large population area with very few admitted students each year. Some years an individual “highest rank” prep school has had 3/6 applicants admitted, but usually 1/4 max. I’ve seen 2 students admitted from one public high, but only in rare cases. (and there are usually no more than 5-6 applicants max from any one public HS, usually less.) Each student seems to be judged individually compared to the other students in the geographic region, and very often it is not the highest grades and scores students who get in. (might be athletes, demonstrated interest in Brown, overcome adversity, URM etc students.) Some years our region has better than the Brown acceptance rate, sometimes a bit less. (one recent year we had almost 20%). So, I guess take home is that you will be “judged” based on you, and not necessarily on your peers by numbers of them. What does count is if there are a bunch of students from your school, what do you show Brown about your fit for Brown that they should accept you, (and implicitly, not someone else with better class rank, board scores, etc given that you have “the same educational opportunity”).</p>
<p>The fact that two students from the same school rarely get in is not the same as saying that having another student applying from your school lowers your chances. Each event is a low probability event but there is not a direct competition among students from the same school in the way you’re implying.</p>
<p>No they don’t take into account if you mean that they will say, “we can only accept 3 students from this high school and another 3 from that high school.” They don’t have quotas per school, but they will compare you to other applicants from your school to see if you have been taking advantage of the opportunities that you had, because theoretically, applicants from the same school should have the same opportunities.</p>