<p>yep mit is the best ivy out there =)</p>
<p>My GC told me a story about something like this. She was saying that back in 1999, like 8 kids applied EA to the same school. This school ended up calling back, saying they were accepting 6 of them EA, and that stuff like this never happens. That made me think that they don't like to accept too many students from one school. However, same school this year accepted 4 of 6 early.</p>
<p>What school was this?</p>
<p>beefs, are you being sarcastic?</p>
<p>yes, why?....</p>
<p>haha ok, I got scared. I was like uh oh this kid thinks MIT is the best ivy. we're in trouble.</p>
<p>One advantage to being homeschooled, I guess...</p>
<p>is that true about tufts? my friends are all sure that only one of us will get in ... they like get mad when more people decide to apply there</p>
<p>This year 3/3 of the early applicants to Middlebury got in (including me hooray!). I was very surprised because we're all middle class girls from the northeast, but I guess we all brought something a little different to the admissions table. Also 1 was a legacy, and I'm a URM, which I'm pretty sure factored in.</p>
<p>My school sends like 1 or 2 people to reputable schools every 2 or 3 years... Most people near the top apply to regional schools</p>
<p>soccerstar18... you do realize that MIT is not an Ivy League school, right???</p>
<p>Yeah, my classmates are def. not my biggest competition–most people go to the local community college (which is one of the best in the country, so it’s not that bad of an option) or to the local tier 2 school. After the Class of 2005 graduated (val went to Harvard, 1 MIT admit, 1 Columbia & 1 Brown), the highest ranked school anyone has gotten into is University of Connecticut. My GC thought I was joking when I told her I got a LL from Columbia. </p>
<p>You’ve gotta love underachievers. -_-</p>
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<p>Really??? I thought the oposite would hold true, I’m not sure about well- known schools. But normally the val. from the suckish public school down the road will get into an ivy. While my private school will have not a single person at an ivy. I know for a fact that the public school is really bad because my friend just transferred from there, and she’s having a hard time catching up here. Again there’s less competition at a not known or bad school. </p>
<p>It really depends on the school, but the Stanford Dean of adcoms said that your biggest competition comes from your classmates. His reasoning was that its really hard to compare the resources, class rigor, grading of different high schools. Which makes it hard to compare students who were given vastly different oppurutunities. However its much easier to compare students from the same high school to see how much they took out of the possibilities that their high school gave them.</p>
<p>Ah then I guess it means Yale is out for me…one of the best students in my year is applying to Yale. But then I do have the advantage of not many people from my school choosing to study in the US. Most choose Uk. Also, if both of us are applying to Yale (hypothetically since I stand little chance of getting in) and she’s a US citizen while I am not, are we assessed differently or not?</p>
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<p>Yes. You’re an international, she’s not. Different pools.</p>
<p>I’ve discussed this question at length with adcoms at elite schools. The answer is that it depends. If you’re applying to lesser known schools or the big, elite state schools like UCLA or Michigan or Texas then it doesn’t matter. You’re not competition with each other. However, if you’re applying to elite Ivy-like schools and your school is just an average high school, then you are in competition. Every Ivy has a short list of well-known high schools that send a lot of kids to it. Lesser known high schools are lucky – very lucky – to get one of their students into a specific Ivy. If a kid is accepted ED or EA, it definitely hurts the chances of someone else from that school getting in RD. The further you are away from the Ivy, the more true it is (Cornell may accept a few from Average High in an upstate NY but the chances of accepting more than one student from Average High in Oregon would be unlikely). Keep in mind that regional adcoms sift through applications from their region and typically know the schools in their region very well. Let’s assume the regional adcom wants to recommend 50 students from a three-state region for acceptance. If they’ve already accepted someone ED or EA from ABC High School in Modesto, that high school already represents 2 percent of the recommended pool for the adcom. They’d much rather spread the wealth and find kids from schools in other parts of their region than recommend somene else from ABC High. It’s all part of the push for a diverse campus.</p>
<p>^ So you’re at a disadvantage if you go to an average HS in a lesser represented state?</p>
<p>From my experience, I still say that individuals who are stellar trump any perceived “school quotas”. My local district gets a few admits to my HYP alma mater each year. Two years ago, one single HS got FOUR acceptances – a statistical abnormality for sure. The kids were just that spectacular.</p>
<p>kiterunner18, I believe you’re at a disadvantage if you go to an average HS in a lesser represented state and someone from your school has already been accepted ED to the Ivy in question.</p>
<p>Oh, okay. But if they haven’t been accepted ED/nobody from my school has applied to the school, I’m good?</p>
<p>Yeah, if no one was accepted ED, then your chances haven’t been altered at all. Good luck. I hope you get accepted.</p>