<p>Here is why I am asking...This is from Silverturtles college admissions sticky:</p>
<p>"- Is it true that a college won't accept more than one student from a single high school?</p>
<p>Some top high schools send dozens of students to top colleges each year; most high schools send none. Colleges have no quotas, but the best indication of how many a college will accept from your high school is historical data. That is, if a top college hasn't accepted a student from your high school in ten years, you and your three friends don't stand a great chance at all being accepted."</p>
<p>My high school has been open for just over 10 years and no one has ever been accepted into an Ivy.</p>
<p>Does this hurt my chances? Are we on some sort of reject list?</p>
<p>IDK if any of this information is relevant:</p>
<p>It's an extremely large public school, 2500+ kids. </p>
<p>It's in a wealthy area of Northern Virginia. The school's zip code is consistently ranked as having one of the highest median incomes in the country. </p>
<p>People who go there are high achieving. Probably 25% of people have over 4.0 weighted GPAs (combination of grade inflation and being smart), high SAT scores, and crazy amounts of ECs.</p>
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<p>Why do you think no one there has ever gone to an Ivy? According to Family Connections a lot of people certainly have the stats and everyone has a ton of ECs. </p>
<p>Do the adcoms just brush over the typical upper middle class northern virginian high achiever? </p>
<p>No, this doesn’t mean you’re blacklisted at all, it just means that the ivies have not found anyone from your school so far that they want to admit. You could very well be the first.</p>
<p>How do you know nobody has ever been accepted to any ivy? Do you know how many applied? It may not be a large number, considering that the ivies are private colleges in the northeast, and you attend a public HS in the southeast. Do you know any information about those that did apply, such as their stats?</p>
<p>I’d expect that some of the 25,000+ students that have graduated from the HS could have been accepted to an ivy league college, whether they applied and/or favored closer colleges, such as UVA, over ivies, is a separate issue.</p>
<p>It’s quite possible people from you school have been accepted in to ivies but have not attended due to being high income. They would not have received much financial aid. I’ve known plenty of students who ultimately had to go to schools they could afford. Didn’t Ben Afleck and Matt Damon go to high school together? They both went to Harvard. If you have the grades and scores it’s worth a try.</p>
<p>Ben Affleck and Matt Damon both went to Cambridge Rindge and Latin, but only Damon went to Harvard.</p>
<p>But that doesn’t change the answer to JohnSmith’s question: no, your school is not blacklisted, and no, it does not have any great impact on your personal prospects for admission to a highly selective college.</p>
<p>In theory, it shouldn’t make any difference, but Ivies are like everyone else, they like to fish where they’ve caught fish before, hence the term “feeder school”.</p>
<p>How does your HS rank on the Newsweek list? And do Ivies visit to recruit? If they show up to recruit, it’s hard to believe they never take anyone. What is the source of your assertion that no one has ever attended?</p>