<p>...does this help (b/c everyone else is applying to Wharton and CAS my HS is small so i know) or do they not take into account what school ur applying to when doling out acceptances. </p>
<p>Also, anyone know what the ED SEAS acceptance rate is?</p>
<p>From my high school 30-40 kids applied ED my year, batch full of legacies and all that. Like a few kids applied to Wharton (including legacy) and were all rejected. 2 got into SAS. 1 (probably the only one who applied) got into SEAS. It probably helps a little.</p>
<p>Youre from DC. Which school. I'm from DC too.</p>
<p>where about? i grew up in a maryland suburb.</p>
<p>When I talked to my regional director, they said that the number of applicants from a school doesn't matter. They could take them all, or they could reject them all. There simply isn't a highschool or state quota.
However, firstly, all colleges try and have a college that represents the American demographic (hence every college usually has a lot of Californians, Texans, New Yorkers etc)
Secondly, the more people apply from your school, the better they can understand your school and how it works (how many APs are offered, how grade inflation works, etc) So in a way, they can use more applicants to compare you to one another and see who took challenging courses and who slacked off.</p>
<p>venkat89, me too. which hs did u go to?</p>
<p>I don't think Penn has set quotas. However, they historically tend to take the same number of kids from most high schools every year. You won't find many instances where Penn will take 10 kids one year, 0 the next year, 3 the next year, and 7 the year after that. Usually, at least for my high school with 50-75 applicants per year, Penn admits 5-7 a year, 3-4 ED. I'm guessing Rule is from a similar school as my old high school, so Penn will probably have a history of taking X students a year and won't deviate too much from that.</p>
<p>Venkat, does that mean that they'll even take kids with crappy stats, as long as it fits that historic quota? lol.</p>
<p>^no, they do not take kids with crappy stats to fit historic quota. My high school very well could send 50+ kids to any of the top 25 colleges in America (and we generally do). What happens is that you'll see lots of very strong kids rejected from Ivies because there were just too many applicants from our high school with better stats. You'll also see a kid or two from a less competitive high school in the county getting into the same colleges stronger kids at my high school are rejected from.</p>