I was wondering if it lowers an applicants chances of admission if more than one person from their school applys to a college out of state.
I got to a 1000 person Vermont HS and 3 people in my grade are applying to Virginia Tech. I feel that we are all qualified applicants, but will they just not accept somone based on the fact that we are from so far away? Thanks
<p>The fact that you've in Vermont and the school's in Virginia will not hurt the apps. Also, 3 is not that many. They can all be accepted if they are all qualified. So your chances won't be lower.</p>
<p>that's reassurring (sp?), thanks.</p>
<p>i go to a 400 students schoo, one of the top 50 in the nation, i know in our school's profile, the year of 2000-2001, there had been 7 ppl went to georgia tech, and the class size was around 250. so.... as u can see, i don't think it matters, at least not that much</p>
<p>S's school had 4 out of 6 this year who applied EA to Yale get in. I can't think of a top 50 college unless it is a state school in an outlying area where there were not multiple applicants.</p>
<p>It's one thing if it's a very competitive, well respected school. </p>
<p>It's a different question if you're asking about a regular public school. My counselor has told me that its highly unlikely that competitive schools will take two applicants from our public school of about ~700 kids in any given year.</p>
<p>I don't know how true that is, but I'd like to find out.</p>
<p>My close friend called me so very upset a few years ago. Her daughter decided to apply ED to Wake Forest. She loved the school and talked about how wonderful her visit there was. And lo and behold, two more kids higher in the academic hierarchy decided that Wake Forest was a great ED choice for them as well. I don't think anyone in that Ohio school had applied there in the last four years much less ED. All I could tell her was that everyone here would be upset since all of the known schools have a line of applicants. You just don't even think about it. You'd go nuts. Her response was similar to Lindsey's. The answer--I don't know. I have been told by adcoms that they do not line up apps from a school and compare the apps with each other. That is done at the very end of the process after the decisions are made just to make sure some outrageous mistake was not made, but even then the verdicts are rarely changed, and if they are it is generally a waitlist to an accept or a reject to a waitlist. Internal equity is not one of the adcoms' goals in this process. Now if 30 kids from your school all applied to a small school, that would be a different story, but for a school as large as Tech, the app process pretty much formula, and the grades and class rank will be the crucial info, not where you go to highschool.</p>
<p>I think close to 100 kids out of a class of 330 from a certain NE prep school applied to Yale last year. I think that only 8-10 were accepted. In that case, I would have to think that some hierarchy existed somehow between candidates from the same school.</p>
<p>10% is approximately the acceptance rate at ivies, is it not? harvard at least specifically states that they have no school quotas.</p>
<p>yeah, in my school, although there're more than 30-40 ppl got accepted to duke every year and 70-90 to unc chapel hill based on a class size of 300-350, there is always only 1 person goes to schools like MIT, Princeton, harvard, yale, etc. regardless of how many ppl applied (more than 20% students did probably). so i would agree with some of the early posts, the very top schools still matter (duke's is an exception in this case, hehe..)</p>
<p>but it sounds like you're in NC. duke tries to keep 15% of their students from NC, so they get a big boost</p>
<p>i talked to a stanford admissions person and they said that they don't even care how many people from 1 high school are applying. it doesnt matter how many people from your school are applying to the same college as you. technicaly it lowers your chances cuz more people are applying, but not because they are your classmates.</p>
<p>this is all good to know.</p>
<p>it seems that 2 other people from my school won't change decisions greatly</p>