Other applicants from your high school: Your biggest competition?

Applying to College
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<p>Thanks for the help and well wishes :)</p>

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<p>I’m hoping this gives me a slight advantage! I’m still waiting for 4 schools to get back to me (Conn College, Wesleyan, Mount Holyoke and Smith), and I’m certain that no one else in my school has applied, or even heard of them. Most people in my school either go to upstate SUNYs, CUNYs, or the local community college. I’ve looked at the history of past applicants on Naviance, and only one student ever has applied to both Conn and Wes, and none have ever applied to MoHo or Smith.</p>

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<p>I think you have a better chance if you are in a lesser represented state. There’s definitely much less competition if you are applying from Alaska than California. Many top schools have their admissions committees divided by geographical region and I’m sure there is some type of quota system. They can’t accept half their people from New York and only 1 person from Hawaii. If you live in a state that isn’t represented well, it will definitely help you. Just like how the cutoff for PSAT scores are different for each state ( high in New York, low in Alaska), I’m sure admissions will also give you a better chance, because you are competing against less people.</p>

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<p>Six people from my high school got into Princeton last year. We are not a feeder school.</p>

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<p>My biggest competition involves GPA hungry people who don’t care about education and want simply to scape-by high GPAs, miraculously score 2400s on their SATs (they probably won’t be close) and go to ivies.</p>

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<p>UChicago always accepts a shizz ton of people from my school. By “shizz ton” though, I mean like five.</p>

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<p>The answer is to move to North Dakota, obviously.</p>

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<p>we had around 20 kids accepted EA to UNC this year. Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of them :(</p>

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<p>^We must have had like 50+ accepted to UNC at my school this year. I think for schools that colleges know a lot about and consistently churn out kids prepared for college, you’re likely to see a high number of acceptances from that high school. But from an unknown school, I think colleges are usually hesistant to accept more than two.</p>