How do adcoms compare you with your region?

Applying to College
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<p>I've heard (very often) that each applicant is "compared" with others in his/her school, district, county, etc. I believe that because it seems in any given year, only one or two students from my district go to each ivy, even if one class is better/worse than the previous year's.</p>

<p>my question is: how do they decide which student gets to go to their college? for example, if I'm applying to yale (which I am) would they wait to decide if I'm admitted or not until they read the other applicants from my school?</p>

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<p>bump10char</p>

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<p>Yes, unless you apply SCEA. In that case they will guess whether or not they’ll see better from your pool this year. Then accept, defer or reject based on that.</p>

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<p>^makes sense. but how do you know?</p>