<p>Mostly top 10% students and a handful of students outside of the top-10% attend a four year college/university after graduation.</p>
<p>Most kids attend one of the community colleges around here with the intent of transferring, but never do and end up dropping out.</p>
<p>I am applying to several big-name universities (no Ivies or anything), but I'm wondering how this fact about my high school will impact admissions decisions.</p>
<p>Anyone know?</p>
<p>Bump? Thanks in advance to anyone who answers.</p>
<p>Each applicant is evaluated within the context of his/her own surroundings/school, so you won’t be directly compared to a student at some very competitive school. Just make sure that you are doing the best that you personally can and taking advantage of the opportunities that you do have.</p>
<p>^ agreed. Colleges have no interest in blackballing schools. So the history of your school is irrelevant if, you indeed, are a top notch candidate. The individual’s strengths trump any history of no-admits.</p>
<p>About 23% of students at my school go to a 4-yr college. Colleges do ask for GCs to send them info about their schools (grad rate, rate going to college, etc), so they will know how strong/weak your school is. As long as you have taken advantage of the opportunities you have (and have seeked some on your own), you should have no problem. Don’t make excuses for not trying though. They don’t expect students from poor districts to have travelled the world, become Mother Teresa, etc.</p>