<p>So all of my friends like to complain that "I'm hurting their chances" because I applied to Penn. How likely is it that I will have any effect on their admissions? I know the schools say it does not matter, but they are also very into diversity so obviously taking a bunch of kids from the same school isn't very diverse. My school generally sounds a few students to top schools a year (last year one girl went to Penn, but she was a runner). Thanks!</p>
<p>They will definitely take more than kid from one school. A few schools, even public schools (many of the ones in New York and New Jersey come to mind) probably send over five people in some years.</p>
<p>Penn often takes several highly-qualified students from the same high school, especially from schools in the Philadelphia area.</p>
<p>I go to a public high school nearby with about 550 seniors, and Penn accepts on average about 6 out of the 20-30 who apply. Then again, there is a lot of legacy/ED among those acceptances.</p>
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<p>Penn, and most schools for that matter, rarely have quotas for the amount of students from a certain school, within reason of course. That being said, it’s unlikely that you and *all *of your classmates will get in. Also, while Penn says they don’t officially take quotas, I doubt that they would ever take more than 5-8 from a certain school—some schools are obviously exceptions.</p>
<p>You should ignore their complaints. You have to do what you have to do. You choose which schools you want to apply to regardless of what anyone else thinks.</p>
<p>The way I think of it is that although coming from the same school does not hurt your chances…having multiple applicants from a common school allows penn to stack you and your peers up next to each other and compare rigor of schedule and academic success when given equal academic opportunity. So in that sense, it can help/hurt applicants, but if you are all qualified I don’t think it really makes a difference within reason</p>
<p>Two years ago, around 20 kids were accepted to UPenn from my school, with a graduating class of around 500. But last year, only around 5 were accepted.</p>
<p>Pretty sure Penn has little to no bias for multiple kids from the same school from what I’ve seen.</p>
<p>My friend and I both got accepted ED from a class of 53. My counselor used to be a regional admissions director and she said that one year they had 29 girls from an all-girls school apply to Penn and 16 of them were accepted… Based on this information, it is definitely possible for multiple people to be accepted from the same school if they are qualified.</p>
<p>thanks guys that makes me feel a lot better!</p>