<p>I was wondering how much influence other students from your high school who applied to the same colleges had in affecting your chances of admissions...basically I found out that this other girl in my grade applied to half the same colleges as me. (To briefly compare our applications, my SAT and essays are better, her grades are probably better than mine, and our EC's are different but about equal.)
I'm assuming that colleges won't take much more than 1 or 2 people from each high school, but how much do situations like this where many people from the same (relatively small) high school affect each student's individual chance?</p>
<p>btw the colleges we both applied to are: Yale, Columbia (probably no chance for either of us anyway), Barnard, and BU (a high safety/low match for both of us)</p>