<p>There's this kid in my grade who's guaranteed to get in next year, like for sure because of swimming. I was wondering if I still have a chance considering my school is average-sized? I mean, I have the grades and extra-curriculars but do you think they would accept two people from the same school?</p>
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<p>No.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
<p>It’s not that uncommon for them to accept more than one kid from a high school. This tends to happen more in competitive prep high schools where more kids are qualified, but it can happen at any HS.
There is a possibly that both of you will be accepted. If one of you doesn’t get in, however, it had nothing to do with the other’s potential acceptance.</p>
<p>^second that</p>
<p>There are examples each year of more than one student from the same high school getting into those colleges. On the other hand, high schools are more numerous than spots in the enrolled classes at those schools, so some high schools get NO ONE in at those colleges, year after year after year, not even each year’s valedictorian. It pays to go to a “feeder” high school.</p>
<p>they take the best applicant. and no they do not limit to one person per school</p>
<p>It’s like, I mean, yes, and no. However, were I you, I would make sure not to use quick internet syntax in my essays… like, I mean, know what I mean?</p>
<p>On a more serious note, I believe there are 19,000 high schools in the U.S. Yale accepts around 1,500 applicants, Harvard and Princeton about the same number. If just one student from each of the 19,000 US high schools (there will be 3.2 million high school graduates this year) were to be admitted to HYP, each would have to admit more than 4 times the number they currently do.</p>
<p>Bottom line, most high schools do not see ANY of their students accepted into HYP in a given year… not the Valedictorian, not the Salutatorian, not the school President, not ONE.</p>
<p>For a high school with which I’m familiar there are multiple acceptances to HYP in a typical year, so I don’t think that there is a “quota”. What’s more likely is that a high school that has a history of sending students to these very selective universities makes it easier for the admission committees to assess the qualifications of future applicants from that high school. Conversely, that puts high schools that never send students to these selective colleges at somewhat of a disadvantage since the colleges can’t easily compare them to past successful alumni from their high schools. I expect that it’s also the case that guidance counselors establish relationships with colleges, and that these depend in large measure on the past history of schools sending strong applicants to those colleges.</p>
<p>Just look at Exeter/Andover and similar schools. You might have more than 30 Harvard acceptances in one graduating class.</p>
<p>Of course, this is the exception and not the rule. Not everyone can be a quadruple legacy child of donor parents at a boarding school.</p>
<p>It’s just rare to have that many great students in one class, thats all.</p>
<p>a good admissions office has no school quotas, your application stands alone</p>
<p>Some elite private schools place several from each class into HYSP, but as noted above most place none into those schools. I go to a large pubic school that is pretty good academically and we have between 5 and 8 make it into top 10 schools each year, but we’ve never placed more than one into these schools from one class.</p>
<p>6 into Princeton from my school last year - I don’t go to a boarding school or a school with a nationally recognized name.</p>
<p>No. Your acceptance or rejection will be entirely independent from that of your peers.</p>
<p>“6 into Princeton from my school last year - I don’t go to a boarding school or a school with a nationally recognized name.”</p>
<p>^^^ well, I’m assuming this is an atypical year? Either your school is MASSIVE or it really is a top tier public HS</p>
<p>i go to a public school and they took 2 EA yale this year already</p>
<p>two years ago, 3 to princeton
three years ago, 2 to harvard, 2 to princeton
four years ago, 3 to yale</p>
<p>so obviously it happens</p>
<p>i go to a top-20 private where (in a class of ~100) 30 apply to stanford, and 15 get in each year on average. it’s ridiculous. then again, a lot of them are legacies who probably don’t deserve to get in, and our counselor used to work at stanford admissions, so he has connections. i think its kinda unfair though… =/</p>
<p>But someone else’s extraordinary app be used to put your app into context?</p>
<p>My graduating class in my (public) high school had three who got into Harvard, I think two or three each for Yale and Princeton, two for MIT, and at least one for Stanford that I recall.</p>
<p>Most of the high schools in my district didn’t send any to any of those places. But it makes it pretty clear that it’s not just a one-per-school thing.</p>