<p>I know of about 10 people at my school who want to apply to Northeastern, me being one of them. Will this lessen my chances of getting in? The students are relatively similar academically, but I'm Student Council president, in NHS, and I've been a newspaper editor for two years. It's just that Northeastern is my top and I'm scared that having so many other students from my school applying may weaken my chances! Thanks!</p>
<p>Let me start by saying I don’t know. However, our school had 10% of the class (34 students) accepted by Cornell. Accepted! 22 will be attending. Apparently some colleges don’t mind multiple kids from the same school. Cornell obviously judged each kid on their own merits.</p>
<p>I feel like that does answer my question. Thanks for the help! I think I’m just psyching myself out. Oh well, everything happens for a reason so I’ll base my acceptances and rejections off of that phrase. (: Thanks again.</p>
<p>Similarly, I don’t know for sure…but if the college deems you worthy of acceptance, you’ll probably get in. Most colleges don’t put a cap on the number of students from a school. They may be disinclined to accept 100 qualified applicants for diversity purposes, but I doubt 10 people would have a very tangible effect on your results.</p>
<p>That’s good to hear. Definitely takes away some of the nerves! I’ll be applying Early Action, wish me luck! (:</p>
<p>I mean I wouldnt worry too much about a school like Northeastern. Its not ridiculously hard to get in like Columbia or Stanford. But schools do compare students an especially if youre applying to similar programs such as an engineering school, then theyll look at how you stack up.</p>
<p>I’m applying for Communications, and I know that some of the other students are going for Political Science, Journalism, and Engineering. I actually have another question. When looking at a student’s application, does a college consider their major into whether or not they will get accepted? I’m not sure if this makes sense, but is there a quota they must fill for each major? Thanks.</p>
<p>^ OP – different colleges have different methods. At some schools, distinct admissions criteria apply to School of Engineering, School or Architecture, School of Fine Arts, and School of Letters (Arts) and Science. As well, some schools like Tulane do not require a student to declare their intended major until the beginning of sophomore year. So, every school is different. Check NE’s website carefullly and it should explain the admissions process for each “school” within the University.</p>
<p>Nit picky correction, Tulane and many schools that don’t require you to declare a major until “junior year” actually have you fill out the paper work towards the end of sophomore year, not the beginning. Absolutely correct otherwise.</p>
<p>In general, schools don’t “quota” high schools and they know that students change majors with great frequency, so they don’t pay a lot of attention there either unless it is a specialty like engineering or architecture.</p>
<p>Depends on the school. If it’s a perennial feeder to top schools, then it won’t matter. If it’s a little known public (or private) school, then yes.</p>
<p>You are torturing yourself, by considering yourself in competition with your HS classmates at a given college.</p>
<p>If you think it all through, you would do well to stop concerning yourself with anyone else’s applications and only worry about getting yourself into a good college which is a good fit for you.</p>
<p>You may or may not be compared to your HS classmate applicants at a given college. But my advice is, don’t use your time thinking about it. Otherwise, you could find yourself still worrying about this many years from now. It’s not worth it. Use your time to come up with a plan that ensures you will have options that you like to select from when April comes.</p>
<p>Cornell is not typical as it’s land grant schools are state schools and are bound to accept many from some NY high schools. That said, I’ve sen small LACs take 15% of the class from top prep schools.</p>
<p>The bottom line is your classmates ate your greatest competition, most top schools want representation from as many places as possible and will limit number taken from any one school.</p>
<p>Eek! Mixed answers, haha. I feel like I’m just freaking myself out, so I’m going to lay off the college chances and questions for awhile. I’ll just focus on school and my applications and do the best that I can possibly do. Thanks everyone for your answers and help! (:</p>
<p>Good idea. The mixed answers are because different colleges do it differently.</p>