<p>Does anyone know whether Columbia will accept more than one student from the same school?</p>
<p>Most definitely. Three kids from my son's school were accepted this past year. It's a private school and had a graduating class of 79.</p>
<p>This is half true. Columbia looks at applications by school, and so they compare you against your classmates. If you're all good enough for Columbia, then theoretically, it is possible that you all get in. But you are being compared.</p>
<p>bioniCS is on the right track, and is 80% right. The applications are looked at on more of a regional basis than on a school-by-school basis.</p>
<p>Also, if Columbia likes "n" people from your high school, they aren't necessarily going to pick the top "n" kids straight off the class ranking list.</p>
<p>3 kids applied early to my school- 2 Accepted/1 Deferred
A few more applied RD- 1 got in (going to Brown), 2 were rejected but are at Barnard.</p>
<p>Class Size: 75</p>
<p>Very hard to say-my S was the first and only applicant to Columbia from his HS (opened in '01 and rather unique -dual focus arts/academic HS where you have to audition plus have good grades/tests scores to get in), and we think this may have been somewhat of a "hook" that helped his app standout from the mass of apps from his region, e.g. Stuyvesant, Bronx Science (where he was accepted but didn't go), etc. 2 from his class applied to Brown-one accepted, one waitlisted, then rejected, 1 to Harvard-rejected, 2 to NYU-1 accepted, 1 rejected, 1 applied ED to Cornell-accepted, 1 applied RD to Cornell-waitilisted, then rejected, 1 applied to UPenn (legacy)-accepted.</p>
<p>I also wanted to mention that the year prior to this one, a student from my son's school was waitlisted and then accepted but did not attend. No one prior to that year had ever been accepted to Columbia.</p>
<p>We were surprised that 3 were accepted this past year considering that our school had no relationship with Columbia prior to this year and that our region (DC area) is overflowing with more than qualified candidates.</p>
<p>lots of kids applied in my school ..... 3 were accepted</p>
<p>wow... 3 in my school too</p>