<p>Three people from my school (in Michigan) were admitted to Stanford; I'm wondering if there is a limit to how many people from the same high school can get into a specific private college?</p>
<p>Look up “quotas”. My assertion is that they don’t exist. Next year S can admit 3 more. Or your school can have none for the next fifteen years. From what I’ve seen of top school admissions, the individual applicant is the determinant factor. </p>
<p>For a quota, you would have to assume that Stanford feels the need to set aside spots for other schools. Why would they feel this pressure? What benefit would it do to pass over a great candidate just b/c there’s already another admitted student? None. They aren’t beholden to curry favor with anyone. They choose to benefit themselves first and foremost.</p>
<p>I really don’t think a college will place a “quota” on the number of students that can come from any given high school, but I do think that acceptance of students from a given high school in the past can help future applicants from that same school. Having people accepted from a certain high school puts that school on the college’s “map”. </p>
<p>For example, 2 years ago a student from my high school got accepted to MIT. He was the first student from my school to ever be accepted to MIT. This year, 3 more kids from my school got into MIT. From what I gather, the kids who got accepted this year weren’t any stronger than some of the kids that got rejected in the past. </p>
<p>I don’t have any other concrete evidence to back this up, but I think having previous accepted students essentially gives a high school “street cred”.</p>
<p>I also don’t believe in high-school quotas! The pool of qualified applicants from each high school is too small for there to be a set quota, because the number of qualified students vary too much each year. I have had the same argument with my friend over high-school comparison, since he thinks that his SAT scores–around the average for Ivies–are too low compared to those of people from our class</p>
<p>I don’t believe there is quotas. One year, D1’s high school had 8 to Stanford. The year D1 applied, I believe none was accepted.</p>