<p>So I've heard from various people that with some Ivy Leagues (I've heard this specifically about Yale) they have a "rule" of taking one student per high school (excepting the prep school private schools or w/e). How true is this?</p>
<p>This may of been true at one time, but I don't think it is now.</p>
<p>I don't think schools would have "quotas" for each high school. It makes the admissions officers' jobs a whole lot harder.</p>
<p>Definitely not true--for example, two students at my public high school got into Princeton, a couplle into Swarthmore, a few into UChicago, a few into Harvard. At least two people at my school got into Yale, and two people got into Columbia, and at least three got into Stanford.</p>
<p>Ah, ok this answers my question. Thanks for the responses guys.</p>
<p>yeah my school sent multiple to several top schools </p>
<p>besides...just a little thing from my constitution class the supreme court ruled college quota's unconstitutional</p>
<p>he he, Yale has a rule about 0 people from my school for the past decade.</p>
<p>But seriously, all the other Ivys and top schools definitely take tons of
people form my school all the time. Gvien that we are rural and a public
school to boot I would imagine these colleges do the same with a number
of high schools around the country?</p>
<p>Interestingly though it definitely looks like students may not be compared
within the school but are compared within their ethinicity in their region
if they formally included it in the common app.</p>
<p>I go to a public school. 4 are going to Yale, 4 to Dartmouth, 4 to Brown, 2 to Harvard, 2 to Stanford, 1 to Princeton (a guy turned down the second Princeton acceptance for Stanford), 1 to Amherst, 1 to Williams, 1 to UPenn, 1 to Cornell, and 1 to MIT. This was a class of 202 kids.</p>
<p>I remember seeing a posted paper on the wall by the office saying who went where.
This is just from my memory.
UCLA: 18-19
USC: 22+
Harvard: 2
Cornell: 3-4
MIT: 2
And unfortunately, I don't remember the others as far as top colleges.
Btw, these numbers aren't bs. If anything, they are lower than what I put.</p>
<p>My high school, in it's entire history, has never sent a student to an ivy league school. Here is our track record since I was a freshman -></p>
<p>Valedictorian '05-'06: Duke
Valedictorian '06-'07: UNC-Chapel Hill
Valedictorian '07-'08: UNC-Chapel Hill
Valedictorian '08-'09: ME! Hopefully Duke!!!</p>
<p>Some public schools are really good and are gold star schools. Of course my high school is not and usually one person only goes to some place like Yale or Cornell(although this was a few years ago. Since then, no one has gotten in...). Of course, class of '09 is more competitive so anyone anywhere can get in...
I don't think it is the school you come from really it is how well you do in your school.</p>
<p>=]</p>
<p>Harvard: 1
Yale: 0
Princeton: 2
UPenn (engineering): 1
Columbia: 2
Dartmouth: 2
Cornell: 11? Something like that.
Brown: 1
MIT: 2
CalTech: 3</p>
<p>And we also had 2 more getting into CalTech, 1 got into Stanford, and 2 were accepted to Duke. Though they turned down these offers. This is out of a class of 70. =] Happy admissions. Good luck!</p>
<p>Some schools send 20 people per year to various ivies. A one student per school limit would be dumb - at some schools likely half the graduating class deserves to go to Harvard while at another school no one deserves it, thats why quotas in every aspect of life, whether college admissions or economics (**** socialism) are a bad idea</p>
<p>There is a much simpler answer here --</p>
<p>I read there are 19,500 high schools in the U.S.</p>
<p>Yale accepts about 1,600 - nice number! (not 19,500+ if it took one from each school) students per year, of which about 70% attend.</p>
<p>I would guess of the 19,500 schools, Yale actually admits a student from about 1,200 distinct schools each year, with about half of those 1,200 changing each year), and as many as 20 from some famous feeeder schools.</p>
<p>In sum, Yale accepts nobody at all from about 95% of schools in this country in a given year.</p>
<p>Our local high school (500+ grads), sent nobody to Yale in 2006 instead two to Princeton, and for 2007 three to Yale, but none to Princeton. Harvard is about one every other year, same with Caltech. Stanford same as Yale and Princeton, one year on, one year off. MIT seems to get 1-2 every year. About 25% of those are (excepting Caltech, MIT) athletic recruit admits in baseball, football, volleyball, etc.</p>
<p>P.S. I've just reread your question in a different way...</p>
<p>Do you mean to ask whether Yale will not take more than one student from a given high school, that is, it has a cap of one per school?</p>
<p>That is also not true at all. It may seem that way because of the realities I describe in post #14.</p>
<p>"The Worth magazine survey also ranked the top 50 U.S. public high schools that feed students to Princeton, Harvard and Yale. Twenty of those schools are in New York, and 13 are in Massachusetts. See Top 100 and Top 50 public lists.
One public school -- New York's Stuyvesant High School -- sends only a small portion (3.67 percent) of its total students, but makes a strong showing in real terms. A total of 113 Stuyvesant grads were at one of the three colleges in the years studied, putting it third overall among both public and private schools. Phillips Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy had 167 and 153 graduates, or 15.68 and 14.75 percent of their students, at those colleges, according to Worth."
Top</a> 100 feeder high schools to the Ivy League - MarketWatch</p>
<p>June, 2003:
Newly appointed Dean of Harvard Law School Elena Kagan will be this year's honored alumna at the graduation ceremony for the 186 students of Hunter College High School's class of 2003. The commencement will be held Thursday, June 26 at 5 p.m. at Hunter College's Assembly Hall in the North Building on 69th Street between Lexington and Park avenues.</p>
<p>Kagan, a member of the Hunter High School class of 1977, was appointed Dean of Harvard Law School in April. She will be the first woman to hold the job in the law school’s 186-year history. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Kagan served as a clerk to former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. She taught at the University of Chicago before moving to Washington where she held several jobs in President Clinton’s administration. Kagan has taught at Harvard Law School since 1999.</p>
<p>Also addressing the Hunter High School graduates will be City Council member Eva Moskowitz and Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab.</p>
<p>This year's class features 54 students named National Merit Finalists and six National Achievement Finalists. In addition, 25% of the graduates will be attending Ivy League schools: 12 will be going to Harvard, three to Yale, six to Cornell, five to Princeton, six to the University of Pennsylvania, five to Columbia, two to Brown and five to Dartmouth; two students are headed to Stanford and two are going to MIT..."
Check out the interesting profiles of some of their Ivy-bound students.
Harvard</a> Law Dean Addresses HCHS Grads</p>
<p>I've heard that Ivy Leagues and some other colleges will only take a certain "quota" from an area or district, but I don't know if that's true or not.</p>
<p>Results do not confirm that. And good public schools (e.g., Stuy in NYC) are not limited that way.</p>
<p>My school has only sent one kid to an Ivy (Brown) in the last 5 years or so. :(</p>