<p>So here's the dilemma I'm in -- recently several students got accepted EA and ED columbia, yale, stanford... </p>
<p>I'm only slightly less competitive and haven't received anything. </p>
<p>Am I screwed at being admitted to these same top colleges they're applying to?</p>
<p>That's up to the colleges. Top rank in class does not automatically equal admission to an ivy or other top school.</p>
<p>It depends on the school. If you go to a non-competitive high school, the top students will take all the spots at HYPS and leave you with the leftovers. </p>
<p>If you go to a highly ranked high school, you need not worry a bit.</p>
<p>Yeah, they can take many students from the same school. And class rank, while important, is not important except to the point where you're quite competitive, there's no particular cutoff.</p>
<p>Don't worry about it. It's out of your hands.</p>
<p>If you go to certain school in Clackamas County that I believe you go to, it should be less of an issue than it is at other schools.</p>
<p>Interesting...</p>
<p>Those students are not "hoarding" the acceptances. Think about it this way. You said that at your school the 5 or so students who are more competitive applicants are getting the acceptances and you are not. Now multiply those 5 students by by all the high schools in America (give or take a few if your high school is particularly good/bad). Now that's a lot of students who are more competitive than you, who are getting those spots. Don't just blame the students in your school.</p>
<p>Depends entirely on the rigor and prestige of your high school.</p>
<p>The size of your graduating class on top of that.</p>
<p>Thank God my school doesn't rank.
I look okay on paper but there are a lot of kids with straight A's and my B could really screw me over if we ranked.</p>
<p>Top kids are the top kids because they know how to play the game. That' why they get seem to have all the top acceptances.</p>
<p>Correlary is the preponderance of Staff kids scooping the top college acceptances at Boarding Schools. I use to think it is a conspiracy; now I think it is because their parents have "guided" them from birth toward that goal.</p>
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It depends on the school. If you go to a non-competitive high school, the top students will take all the spots at HYPS and leave you with the leftovers.</p>
<p>If you go to a highly ranked high school, you need not worry a bit.
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<p>I don't agree. Six students from my public high school were accepted to Yale early this year, and I'm sure more will be accepted when regular decisions roll around. I really don't think that a college will say, "We WOULD accept this kid normally, but we already accepted a kid from his high school who is slightly better than he is, so we can't! Oops."</p>
<p>I think it is a myth, either you have what they want or don't. I have seen multiple people get in to top schools from a small HS one year and none the next.</p>
<p>Technically, great academic accomplishment is the most important thing in your application file according to most colleges, so I guess it's correct to say that Vals and Sals have higher chances at top colleges than everyone else, even those who are marginally behind just due to one A- or NMC instead of NMF or 730 in one section of the SAT Is instead of 760 or 2310 superscored instead of 2330 first sitting.</p>
<p>I'm in this position... </p>
<p>How frustrating...</p>