<p>Is it true that colleges try not to accept a large increase of students?</p>
<p>I mean in my school about 6-8 students get accepted to UVA (i'm in state) and i believe that in this year's class we have about 20 ppl that can easily get in!!... So does that hurt our chances or does it not matter?</p>
<p>It might hurt your chances slightly, but being instate helps them, since UVA needs a certain amount of instate students as a state university. So I think it all evens out in the end. Good luck!</p>
<p>Duke is one college that specifically denies (in a mailing for parents I received a while ago) that it cares how many students it takes from one high school. If you are a great applicant, you get in. If you are a typical applicant, you get wait-listed or denied, but they don't count how many other people are applying from your high school against you. I expect it really works this way at most colleges.</p>
<p>ok thanks.. and I know about the 2/3 rule.. it's good.. but then again my application isn't amazing like other cc'ers so i'm not a shoo in</p>
<p>I don't think public schools would care too much about accepting a large number of students from one instate school. I could be wrong...</p>
<p>Our school, 2 applied to UChicago EA, both got in. Last year 2 applied to CalTech, both got in. Nearby school, very competitive public, 3 years ago 4 admitted to MIT, following year, not even the Valedictorian was accepted.</p>