My daughter just found out that her top choice school (LAC under 2k students, several states away) admitted a girl from her HS ED for a sport. I realize no one can say definitely if this will hurt her chances for RD but has anyone had a similar situation? Opinions?
Look at the common data set for the school under section C7 and look at the STATE RESIDENCY line to see if it is labeled as, “Very Important, Important, Considered, Not Considered”.
Don’t worry. From my experience, in the greater nyc metropolitan area, it does not appear to be a limit on accepting students from the same high school.
I know our school (~400 per graduating class) has multiple students going to the same LAC.
LACs routinely accept more than one applicant from our public HS. I have never heard a LAC admission officer say they have a quota by HS. I don’t think accepting an athletic recruit will have any impact on your D’s application. First off athletic recruits pretty much go in a different pile than non-hooked applicants. Secondly, your D is competing for spots with applicants not just from your HS but from the entire county, state, country. My last piece of unsolicited advice is not to spend psychic energy worrying about things you can’t change – if your D put forth her best possible application then she did everything right that is in her control.
@skyii558 Can you check naviance or maybe with a local guidance counselor to see numbers of admits? I have been told by college counselor that this happens on ED where they will only take one (and often athlete) during ED round because they want regional diversity and don’t want to have taken too many from one school/region. However, on RD they do not feel constrained because they have the universe of applicants to choose from. So they can take more than one from a school if they want them.
Thank you! Their common data shows that geographic area is “considered.” We just have to wait and see. As I tell her, things have a way of working out for the best, sometimes it just takes hindsight to see it.