<p>I go to the #1 public school in my state (not saying which one to protect my confidentiality). Will that help my case to schools?</p>
<p>Your GPA and rank will be taken into account using the information about your school. Of course if your school has a ton of AP’s, competitive top 10% etc. admissions officers will take this into consideration.</p>
<p>School doesn’t rank. It would hurt kids feelings apparently…
But I have definitely taken advantage of what my school has to offer. Thanks</p>
<p>I go to the #1 school in my state(MD) too and i hear it works against you, at least if your not in the top 10%.</p>
<p>I think I am. I would be surprised if I wasnt but I have no way to check for sure
Btw public or private school? @coola</p>
<p>If your school regularly sends about 30% or more to the ivies and similarly selective schools, then all that might happen is that you may not be expected to be in the top 3-2% to be competitive for those schools i.e you can be in the top 10% and still have a shot</p>
<p>I don’t know about 30% but we had (by my estimate) 3 brown 8 Cornell 0 Dartmouth 0-1 Columbia 5 upenn 3 Yale 2 Princeton 2-3 Harvard out of a class of 500 students so it’s not bad at all. We also send kids to MIT cit Williams Amherst uchicago and more. Hopefully that will reflect well on me</p>
<p>Yes it does matter, as long as you are in the top 1%. The top 1% of a very competitive high school has better chances at top school than a top 1% at a not as competitive high school. The trick is to be in the top 1%.</p>
<p>Going to the competitive school helps a little. Because your school regularly sends kids to top institutions every year, adcoms will know your school better and therefore are able to appreciate more your achievements because they understand the context. Going to a competitive school may give you the benefit of the doubt as opposed to if you went to a no name school where it’s unclear how to judge one’s achievements, but it’s a factor way overshadowed by your individual accomplishment.</p>
<p>public, and from the stats u listed about all those people getting into ivies and whatnot i think were at the same school lol.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that some students in the top private schools that send about half their class to Ivies every year get a boost, since the colleges remember their school name.</p>
<p>but if your school sends 2-3 students to each individual ivy every year, i don’t think they would remember your school and prefer them over other students with the same stats. that’s guesswork though. </p>
<p>my school is in a similar situation, in terms of how many people go to ivies each year. we do have an insane number (50+) who get into UC berkeley, so I think UCB actually gives our students a slight boost. same thing for USC and most UC’s. I don’t know if UC’s can keep certain high schools on record, l so maybe our school is just good at sending out students with high stats</p>
<p>Probably does, as it’s more competitive.</p>
<p>I think it’s about what kind of relationship your school has with the school you’re applying to. My school historically sends a lot of kids to UNC-Chapel Hill. And I guess those kids must be pretty successful there, because it’s a lot easier to get in from my school than from other in-state schools.</p>
<p>If you’re at the top of your class, definitely yes. Even if you’re slightly lower in your class than the school wants, they’ll be able to see why based off of your high school.</p>