<p>Hi, I was just wondering if Columbia (or any other ivies) cap the number of students that are accepted from a single high school.</p>
<p>I'm asking because already there's around 16 people ED'ing to Columbia and one of them will most certainly get in because both of her parents are Columbia alumni and not to mention that she is VERY smart.</p>
<p>I'm comparing my stats from ED results from last year, and I seem to be average. 2300 SAT score (770 math, 790 writing, 740 reading), GPA = 4, strong music record with many scholarships and competitions, and debate. </p>
<p>But if there are so many people applying from one school, will my chances decrease? and if so, by how much?</p>
<p>silence…i don’t understand what you wrote^ up there…
there are 54 applying to Columbia from your school?
How many are in your class? How many are applying to Penn?</p>
<p>probably because this is there first year using the common app. compared to uchicago’s first time, this numbers are actually not as bad. remeber the increase in rd apps for uchicago last year when they first used the common app? lol</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I imagine that a large number of people applying ED from the same school would in one way or another hinder your chances… But based on your GPA and SAT score you seem like a more-than-qualified applicant, so good luck :)</p>
<p>I’m the only person from my school applying ED to Columbia College this year. Feels good man.</p>
<p>this completely false. While columbia cares about geographic diversity a little, they simply don’t care that many applicants apply from the same school, and will take whoever makes it, independent of how many others apply from that school / region. I know that Harvard Westlake had like 15-25 acceptances to columbia 2 years ago, the quality of applicants from there was simply that good, and I knew quite a few Harvard Westlake kids at Columbia, and none of them were lagging. Likewise being the only person ED from your school doesn’t make any difference at all, your competition is the ~25-30k applicants, not any specific subset of those. </p>
<p>This question comes up repeatedly on this forum and others.</p>
<p>It’s of no value to Columbia to turn down great students to curry favor with other local high schools. They spend beaucoup cash on marketing and recruiting. It’d be utter foolishness to randomly limit admits from any single school just so they can “spread the wealth”. </p>
<p>Think about it. This would be the sole reason for a quota system.</p>
<p>But there’s nothing to be gained. They aren’t beholden to other high schools’ sense of entitlement. No quotas b/c no benefit to Columbia. You’re judged against the larger regional pool of applicants.</p>
<p>One year your HS may have few applicants but more admittees. Another year, more applicants and maybe only a single or no admit. It’s serendipity and depends on what the larger applicant pool is bringing in any particular year. Each applicant stands on their own two feet against the applicant pool. </p>
<p>What is that pool though? </p>
<p>Maybe you’re that outstanding scholar who’s also a great tuba player? Maybe your classmate is that strong math girl who’s played tennis and piano for 15 years? But thishe math/tennis/piano girl has stronger GPA and ranking than you.</p>
<p>But this year, only two strong tuba applicants apply and 100 math/piano/tennis kids apply. Guess who is more likely to get accepted? You see, you’ll be compared with other kids like you – if they happen to be from your school, then so be it. But you’re being compared with like kids in the entire pool.</p>
<p>I think one should be worried if there are many kids applying to one school from a particular high school. Most of the freshman classes at ivies are relatively small. The schools go out of their way to achieve diversity at every level. They are not likely to take 15 plus kids from one high school unless it’s a huge public high school located near the college.</p>