<p>Do universities place quotas on how many they accept from a specific school?</p>
<p>Like me and maybe 10 other people are applying to this one school, so would they not accept most of us based on the fact that we're all at the same school or would this not be a factor at all?</p>
<p>WELL!</p>
<p>this question is one for the ages. Personally, I believe that regardless of what any adcom says, the number of people applying from you school very much DOES matter in college admissions.</p>
<p>For example, if 10 people from your school are applying to, for sakes of this example, vanderbilt. Now, if you are the strongest applicant from your school, I would say you chances of being admitted actually rise. As a college doesn't know that much about most high schools, i.e. how difficult or easy they are, if they see a bunch of applicants and see you are the one who is doing the best, they at least realize that there are plenty of good students who do worse at your school. If you are one of those who say is at the bottem of that 10 person group, I would say your chances significantly drop - simply because most colleges don't accept a bunch of people from the same school. You now face a double negative.</p>
<p>Now conversely, say you are applying to vanderbilt, and no one has ever applied to vanderbilt from your school before. You will likely be given a leg up as you will add some sort of diversity to the school. Also, you will not be compared to anyone else in your school. They don't know that out of the top 10 kids in your class you scored the lowest on the SATs, or that you had the least amount of ECs, or you took less than the norm of AP classes. that works for your advantage. If you have great ECs, great SATs, and a ton of APs then it doesn't matter than no one else applied from your school cause obviously they will see that.</p>
<p>I wish I could find it, but there was a very revealing article in the Washington post from 2002 or 2003 about UVa admissions. One story presented in the article showed a girl with below average (but still within range) scores who got admitted simply because she was the first person from her town to ever apply to the school.</p>
<p>So it matters A LOT!</p>
<p>There is a not a quota, but they're not going to like accept 10 from your school, unless the school is like well-known.</p>