Just wondering...

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Does our "high school type" really matter?</p>

<p>Someone posted their high school type on this thread:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/518762-need-help-choosing-between-ed-regular-applying.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/518762-need-help-choosing-between-ed-regular-applying.html&lt;/a>
and I'm just wondering how that plays into effect.</p>

<p>My public high school, a definite competitive school in Socal, sends students to Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, etc. Basically the Ivies and many of the UC's.</p>

<p>So does that mean it would hurt my chance of trying to get into UPenn?
I don't really hear of people applying to UPenn at my school though; it seems like they all apply to every Ivy but this one.</p>

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<p>My son graduated from a very low performing school in Norcal and was admitted to Penn. There was a small segment of the school that were high achievers and some of these kids were admitted to very prestigious schools, including two Ivy Leaguers and Berkley.</p>

<p>It seems that the admission decision depends a lot on a combination of how you did in relationship to the kids at your particular school and overall with kids across the country (SAT scores).</p>

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<p>Your schoolmate's short-sightedness is your gain.</p>