<p>I am a student of the first graduating class at my high school. There is a total of 2 other students graduating with me (yes, i know). </p>
<p>Will this help or hurt my chances?</p>
<p>Any input would be great. Thanks!</p>
<p>Woah. That’s just crazy. 
Sorry for the pointless post…</p>
<p>It will hurt. Colleges won’t know your school and since there are only two other graduates, they will not even be able to determine the quality of your GPA from your class rank, let alone how it stands up to the GPAs of other students in your state. Let’s just say that you better have good test scores and EC’s outside of school if you are hoping for some quality acceptances.</p>
<p>Good luck though. Hopefully colleges will admire your guts for sticking it out all four years with only two other classmates and give you a boost for that!</p>
<p>I tend to agree with sg12, but there’s nothing you can do about it now. I suspect that colleges will place a lot of emphasis on your standardized test scores; my suggestion is to review your college list and see how they handle home-schooled candidates. They may require extra SAT subject tests, etc., approach your applications from that angle.</p>
<p>On the positive side you’ve got a great chance at being valedictorian or salutatorian.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>How does a new school’s first graduating class work with respect to admissions? My son’s going to a new HS next year. It will start with only 9th and 10th graders (he’ll be in 10th), and then the second year, the third class will be added, and finally the school will be full for its third year in existence. My son’s class will be the first graduating class and will be about 300 students. This is a school that was built due to area growth, and so the kids filling it will be redistricted from 3 other high schools. Anyone go through this and would like to share your experience?</p>
<p>Are you top 10%? J/K! </p>
<p>Your administrator will have to work hard to make you known to schools. It could be good if they are aggressive and willing to get on the phone to introduce you and the new school to colleges. Hopefully future classes will be bigger?</p>
<p>I don’t think it will hurt you. It could also make a really interesting essay. If you’re worried about colleges not being able to confirm academic rigor of your school, take extra SAT 2s and do well on them. Or, self study for AP tests. Those types of tests can be more easily compared across the country anyway.</p>
<p>I agree with above that standardized test scores and EC’s will matter a lot. After all, plenty of homeschooled students get into top colleges, so that must mean something, right?</p>
<p>My S attended 9th grade (last yr) at a new private HS. There were 15 freshmen, about the same number of sophs and jrs, and no seniors (the school was too new). The biggest piece of advice I can offer (speaking from experience here) is to make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that the courses offered by your school are approved for admission by at least your state public college(s). I live in CA, and at the time my S started grade 9 at this school, the only courses approved by the UC system for admission were English & Spanish. Nothing else!! I spent many hours on the phone with UC officials and the principal of the school (who was also new and made a mess of things) trying to find out why the courses weren’t approved, had they even been submitted, etc. My S and every other student were taking unapproved courses at risk (and none of the other parents, to my knowledge, were aware of this or did their due diligence in investigating). Fast forward-- courses were finally approved, but not before I made a real pest of myself. Shame on that school for being so lax. My S is now in the public HS, where he really wanted to be anyway.</p>
<p>The follow-on issue to this is, UC will approve new courses retroactively for new schools, but this actually can actually cause a problem: they do not keep track of which courses were offered at the school in a given academic year. So, for example, if your 9th grader wanted to take AP World History but couldn’t because it wasn’t offered that year, and then UC approved it retroactively the following year, it will look as though the course was actually offered in 9th grade when in fact it wasn’t. So, it will look to a UC admissions officer as though the student didn’t take the most rigorous course offered at the time. Do your due diligence!!!</p>
<p>wow this sucks.
i’m make up 50% of MY graduating class ( so one other person is leaving with me–Yaay)
since we’re in the same boat, should we include this fact in the app??
help us here please!
xD
ps- chance: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/781513-chances-stanford.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/781513-chances-stanford.html</a></p>