<p>15 students in my school last year got into Princeton. 0 got into Harvard.</p>
<p>15-20% go to a top 10 school. 35% go to a top 20 school. 80% go into a Tier 1 school. The rest go and do whatever.</p>
<p>Why are my school's stats so far off. Why is it that Harvard no longer accepts any students from my school? Rumor has it that a few years ago so many students were accepted ED to harvard, but broke the agreement. Consequently, Harvard blacklisted my high school.</p>
<p>BTW i don't want to apply/go to Harvard, but I was just confused about this.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure colleges don’t blacklist high schools, and it’s Harvard…only about 6% of applicants get in each year. Coincidence doesn’t equal correlation.</p>
<p>Colleges look at your high school for a variety of things. 1. To see rigor and intensity of courses. 2. To see your background. 3. Because around 60% of admitted students are public school, so to keep percentages constant. And a few other reasons but schools never limiting amount of students that can get accepted from a certain school. They are also not allowed to blacklist.</p>
<p>It sounds to me like you go to a private school. Colleges don’t want that many private school kids so the chances for those students are even harder. Plus Harvard might not have been interested in any of the applicants from your school.</p>
<p>i highly doubt harvard would blacklist an entire school for something like that… Admissions are, to some degree, random so it might have just turned out this way just for that year.</p>
<p>Does your school have a specific focus? My school’s an engineering school, for instance, and looking through our admissions history gives some similarly weird stats: 50% acceptance to Caltech, 25% to Princeton, but only about 5% to Harvard/Yale. (those stats are only out of people who applied, which is a fairly self selecting group) </p>
<p>Since acceptance rates between those schools aren’t that massive, I can only guess that our school’s emphasis on math/science/research and relatively weak humanities courses must play a role.</p>
<p>I’m not so sure. Our local high school sends some of its top kids to HPSM every year - but no Y. Yale has not accepted a single kid from our high school within the living memory of the school, which is over 40 years. Rejecting all our top applicants for that long just can’t be mere coincidence.</p>
<p>Exactly a good number must be legacies and faculty members and such.</p>
<p>It is not easier to get into Princeton from NJ or the same for Harvard. That is just something kids came up with for excuses. Colleges want a very broad student body.</p>
<p>Just because Yale hasn’t accepted anyone from your high school doesn’t mean they are blacklisting your school.</p>
<p>the vast majority of admitted students do not have legacies or relations to a faculty member. Some of them took Princeton classes (i.e. linear algebra, organic chemistry etc…) but would that really make that big of a difference? Is it also possible that Harvard thinks that most kids would probably get into Princeton and would opt for PU over Harvard?</p>
<p>We have had multiple students attend Harvard, but for some reason, Harvard hated my school the past school year…</p>
<p>Btw, my friend wants to go to Harvard and he doesn’t have a CC account so he asked me to ask this question lol.</p>
<p>Of course, we can say that a university is not allowed to “blacklist” any high school, but consider this. At my (private) school, if you get into one of HYPS early action, college counseling basically compels you to matriculate to that school. You are not allowed to apply to any other schools thereafter. The rationale: if we give a school a low yield rate from early action, they will be less inclined to accept candidates from our school in the future.</p>
<p>For me, this is not a problem, since there is no question I would attend my EA school if I got in. Whether this practice is fair is a different matter. And if the rationale is at all correct is also questionable.</p>
<p>Just because your school had a year when no one got into Harvard doesn’t mean anything. Some years at my high school 5 kids get in other years no one does. It’s the applicants that get accepted not the high school.</p>
<p>Well, what does it mean then? It can’t be that >40 years worth of graduates weren’t good enough, since some (several each year) have gone to Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Caltech, and Stanford and done very well at those schools.</p>
<p>My wife has done volunteer in the school’s college and career counseling center for the past 10 years and has personally seen the valedictorians and other top kids, many of whom applied to Yale, strike out year after year. In talking to the senior-most faculty and staff still working (>30 years) she found out that no one from that school had EVER been successful with a Yale app. This was confirmed when she looked through old files stretching back more than 40 years. </p>
<p>Call it a blacklist or call it something else if you prefer, but the sad fact is that Yale simply has not accepted any applicants from our local high school no matter how highly qualified they have been.</p>
<p>My school is kind of the opposite. We’ve sent multiple kids to harvard and stanford every year. But its been a few years since we’ve sent someone to MIT, yale, and princeton</p>