<p>How many people from each high school does an Ivy League such as Harvard typically accept?</p>
<p>I go to a big public high school.
Stanford accepts 8 every year - 4 girls, 4 boys
UPenn, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown all accept between 2-8 of those who apply
Yale accepts 1 or 2</p>
<p>There’s really no answer to that question. It will vary from school to school and from year to year. The universities will tell you that there are no quotas. If your school has naviance you can check it for admissions history to a particular school.</p>
<p>Wow knockaround, that’s a lot of people!</p>
<p>@Prefect…how many people typically get accepted from your school?</p>
<p>I was just afraid that a school, say Harvard, only limited their selections to two people per school…so it’s only based on the quality of the applicants rather than how many people they’ve already accepted per school?</p>
<p>No they don’t, they accept as many as they want or as few as they want. It could be 10 one year and 0 the next.</p>
<p>IVY Leagues look for thinkers. Great Grades and Great Tests scores alone won’t get you in. Everyone applying has this. They look for strong ECAs and leadership in their applicants.</p>
<p>It varies by school. Sometimes the answer is 0. There are many more high schools in the US than there are acceptances at Harvard, therefore clearly some schools get 0 admits.</p>
<p>There are also schools that get 0 admits from any Ivy League. How sad it would be to be valedictorian at your school and not get into any Ivy League school.</p>
<p>bypass the ivy league frenzy. go to a great supportive college, you will be happier and learn more.</p>
<p>From my school (public in Massachusetts), it varies from 0-3 every year to Ivy Leagues.</p>
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<p>Why would this be sad? You said yourself that there are more high schools in the country than there are acceptances at Harvard. The most competitive schools with the lowest acceptance rates tell us every year how many valedictorians and perfect SAT applicants they turn down.</p>
<p>The sad thing is that people who are bright enough to be valedictorians (and their parents and guidance counselors) aren’t smart enough to figure this out and plan accordingly.</p>
<p>My school usually sends 1-3 people each year to the Ivies.</p>
<p>I would assume most schools send zero. The best college anyone in my school goes to on a regular basis is the University of Michigan, and they send like one person a year there. I think someone got into Harvard once, in like 1970.</p>
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<p>Those results seem to describe a school such as Palo Alto High. And it would be quite misleading to extrapolate the results of an extremely competitive high school nestled in the shadow of Stanford to the average US city. If Stanford accepts eight students from Paly, that is still below 2 percent of the a graduating class with plenty of students with connections to the school. </p>
<p>There are probably 30,000 high schools in the country and about 30,000 students who are admitted at the Ivy League plus Stanford and MIT. Do the math!</p>
<p>Lol good guess Xiggi. Yes, our school is nuzzled up near Stanford and many of the students do have connections there.</p>
<p>Although less that 2% of the graduating class is correct, not everyone applies. Of those that apply, 16-17% get in. Keep in mind that this is a student body with many connections to the school.</p>
<p>Ahh, @JoBlue I couldnt agree more with your last statement. I wish I made myself more ‘competitive’ earlier on. </p>
<p>In response to everyone elses posts…I always thought schools like Harvard only accepted a max of 2. Haha like they would be like “oh I already accepted two ppl so even if there is someone else really qualified it doesnt matter”. So from these posts it seems to me that its just really random…</p>
<p>Here is a look at a matriculation list for the most selective school for boys in Dallas, Texas. Keep in mind this is the matriculation list and that students might have multiple admissions. The graduating class is usually around 100, and not as large as a school like Paly. </p>
<p>[St</a>. Mark’s School of Texas ~ College Matriculation](<a href=“Maintenance Page”>St. Mark’s School of Texas | College Counseling)</p>
<p>According to Naviance, our local high school has had 227 Ivy League acceptances over the past 10 years, but I can’t tell how many of those went to the same students. They’ve had about a 13% acceptance rate, with the highest acceptance rate at Cornell.</p>
<p>This is for an affluent suburban school with a 490 kids in this year’s graduating class. It seems, on average, a kid would have a 5% chance of getting into an Ivy over the past 10 years.</p>