<p>"If a college hasn't accepted students from your school in the past, it probably won't in the future."</p>
<p>How much truth is there in this? Obviously, there would be exceptions, but generally how much does the college's history with a high school influence admission decisions?</p>
<p>Similarly, if a college accepts (a) student(s) from a certain high school for several consecutive years, are they more likely to in the future?</p>
<p>And I'm talking about just a regular public school; I know the elite private schools have their own rules.</p>
<p>I know that my school certainly has a rumor going that Stanford hates us, because apparently one year they accepted many of our graduates, nobody went, and now they only accept 1-2 each year out of 50-60 who apply and possibly more.</p>
<p>But perhaps that's all speculation and they have no bias either way; who knows?</p>
<p>Familiarity with a school's strengths/weaknesses allows adcoms to more quickly determine the relative strengths/weaknesses of applicants from that school. That may be a good or a bad thing, really. </p>
<p>But there's no quota in general -- too many items to attend to rather than blacklisting or favoring certain schools. A HS in my community got four admits to Yale in that ridiculously competitive last season. In prior years they've eked one or two every few years. It was just a fluke of a bundle of great kids coming out at one time.</p>
<p>The adcoms are going to look at the individual, first and foremost. A school has no admits? Look at the applicants.</p>
<p>The advantage for traditional feeder schools (pub or private) is the experience of the GCs in getting kids to the top schools, undergrads who go home to recruit more, and the fact that the college may send reps to the schools that generate the higher no. of viable candidates.</p>