<p>Eagle, colleges certainly do track the types of schools their students come from --- most often it's reported on the freshman profile.</p>
<p>And, they know in advance at which type of schools they're mostly to find the recruits they want...actually, scratch that, they have the capability to know which specific schools where they're most likely to find the recruits they want. Consider what the College Board has to say about just one of it's services, the Enrollment Planning System:</p>
<p>"Pinpoint your most promising high schools...evaluate your enrollment yield by high school...identify your top feeder high schools...segment high schools by average household, incomes, ethnicity and race, religion, language spoken at home, academic profile, and percentage of students going on to college..."</p>