<p>musictoad,</p>
<p>What you are referring to is one of the reasons I would like to know the breakdown of acceptances at certain colleges for students at different types of high schools. </p>
<p>Let me explain, the type of HS may be part of the enrollment management systems. The yield rate of students from a certain high school may be lower than average because the enrollment management algoriithms show that those students tend to go to a particular type of school, i.e. small high school to small college. Note that this does not have to do with ability to pay but with projected yield from a certain segment of students. Thus the admissions office at certain colleges choose not to compete and reject a student of similar stats to other private or public schools. Kind of a Tufts syndrome for these students. </p>
<p>The schools all want to be loved . . . but so do the students. If my conjecture is true I find this troubling because it would continue to foster a certain feeder system that I thought more meritocratic admission programs were designed to eliminate. Or at least that is what the nice brochures would like us all to believe.</p>