<p>.... in a million years, does that increase or decrease your chances in any one year?</p>
<p>My school has sent many to several Ivies but to one, 40 applicants and only 1 acceptance in 6 years, and it was 5 years ago.</p>
<p>Do you think this would increase your chances as in "maybe it's time again" or decrease them in that "this school probably sees something negative in this HS and generally writes them off"?</p>
<p>I think it’d really help those of us that are attempting to help you if you:</p>
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<li>Post the college you’re referring to</li>
<li>Post how often these other students get accepted to the several other Ivies
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY</li>
<li>Your stats</li>
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<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>That’s OK, I’m asking in general but I see why you’d want to narrow it down, so I’ll do that but be general.</p>
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<li>It’s a top Ivy League School</li>
<li>Every year about 15% of a class applies to all Ivies, with about 2-3% of the class being accepted.</li>
<li>I’m not asking about my personal stats, but presume they’re competitive.</li>
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<p>It’s actually just a generic question, whether or not it makes a difference if an admissions committee notices they haven’t taken a student from a particular school in a long time, if it makes a difference in terms of a fractional diversity tip.</p>
<p>I suppose I’ll just presume is Harvard, Yale, Princeton or MIT.</p>
<p>It’s a difficult question you’re asking and I understand why you’re a little befuddled by it - mainly because you can’t just go up and ask the university you’re thinking of. On one hand you know that a school that doesn’t send many kids or send many apps to Ivy Leagues have a better chance for that one kid. And on the other hand, you know that kids with lots of Ivy League applicants don’t get as much attention as they may deserve. It’s all about diversification with these Ivy Leaguers. </p>
<p>Personally my verdict is that the university may be overlooking your school. But also take a serious objective look at the strength of the applicants - be sure you’re not conning yourself into thinking something inaccurate. Sorry I can’t be of much help haha you didn’t provide very much info!</p>
<p>I have a similar question, I’ll be specific though. At our school no one has been accepted to Georgetown University since 2001. Since then, there have been 62 applications. That was until this year, when 1 student, just one, got into Georgetown and enrolled from our school. Now that they’ve taken 1 person from our school, is this going to hurt my chances because they might go on a 10 year hiatus or might it be an indicator that they are interested in my school again? </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>bump 10char.</p>
<p>bump 10char</p>
<p>I honestly don’t think it makes a difference. Your qualifications as an applicant and what you have done with the resources available to you are most important. If everyone from your college is sending in what I would call a “generic” high stats application (very good grades and test scores, strong ECs but mostly focused on school activities), then you may see a lot of rejections from the top schools. Those schools want something extra, some kind of “zip” to the application that makes it three-dimensional and different from the others.</p>