<p>From my son’s school, for the past six years, from a senior class just over 300, between 8-10 applied and between 0-4 were accepted. In total 11 were accepted out of the 55 who applied.</p>
<p>This year, 21 applied. ???</p>
<p>My school’s pretty nuts, with like 600 kids in the graduating class…hopefully, they’d take 4-5 people, at the very least.
So hopefully, there’s no official quota, with “4” kids tops from x high school. I’ll try to believe the Harvard website…</p>
<p>@dashboard
your hs seems pretty competitive, but proly nothin compared to my public high…my graduating class has a TASPer, RSIer, several 2400s, family connections, etc. etc…CRAZZZY MAn</p>
<p>^your high school is pretty much the description of my high school…except such “greatness” only applies to 3-4 people in particular. Everyone else is great, but still normal (Intel semifinalist, and other awards…not like ISEF 1st place winner or anytthing)</p>
<p>So how many kids from your school get in per year? There doesn’t seem to be a “trend” for my school, so it seems pretty hard to tell.</p>
<p>On the other note, though for schools like Phillips one year they have like 15 people going, the next year like 29 going…so there doesn’t seem to be an official limit.</p>
<p>@WindCloudUltra</p>
<p>Idk. My only guess is that everyone realizes the stares that will accompany someone who says they’re applying to Harvard. Based on the numerous kids (12yrs. and under) I’ve talked to in my life, a very large amount are aware of Harvard. Even at that age, they begin to think of Harvard as the pinnacle of the educational world. For the most part, everyone (yes, this is an exaggeration) knows about Harvard. I told my friend that I was applying to Yale and she had no idea what it was. Because of the popular idealization of Harvard, I imagine that applicants are afraid of stares and remarks that are along the lines of “Do you honestly think you’re good enough?” At guess at my school, people are afraid of seeming pretentious by saying that they’re applying.</p>
<p>There is still, on average, far less than one applicant applying to Harvard from each high school within the United States.</p>
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exactly…</p>
<p>At my school, I’d guess maybe 15-20 applied. Pretty much all of the top students do unless they’re interested only in small schools (like one of our vals) or want to stay close to home (like the guys ranked 10th and 11th). It’s probably about the same number every year. In’08, two were accepted. In '09, one was waitlisted, none accepted. I really feel like one girl in our class has honestly sort of good chances, and I don’t know about the rest of us.</p>
<p>There definitely seems to be some strange taboo about Harvard in my school. A lot of my friends applied to the other top schools (YPSM), but only a few did Harvard. When someone asks me my top choices and I say MIT or Harvard, it seems to always alienate the person. It’s a VERY strange and awkward experience that I constantly must endure. It’s not even like I’m accepted or anything. I always tend to mislead people just so I don’t face those moments. It may make me even more pretentious in their eyes in doing so, but at least I don’t get those shifty eyes.</p>
<p>“Someone posted in another thead that 27 students from Stuyvesant HS were accepted to Harvard in 2009. So if you have the stats, don’t worry.”</p>
<p>True; my daughter was one of those 27 that got accepted. However, 120 other kids applied – all of them having the stats – and they got rejected. It’s more than just stats; it’s the whole package.</p>
<p>I go to a very small, competitive school in NYC and I think only three are applying; myself and two boys. i dont think any of us have that good chances but the boys have hooks while i have more of a “story,” and not in a soap opera kind of way. anyways my school is also one where very few apply to Harvard, and everyone seems to think it is very pretentious although none of them actually know people there. but last year no one got in, and in '08 one girl who had a 3.9, 2350 and legacy with fatherly connections got waitlisted then accepted. not to mention there was a shooting at Harvard and a girl who graduated from my school in '06 was implicated…</p>