<p>is there a limited amount of students a university will accept from a single high school or do they go by state? I am asking because like 10 kids are applying to the same school in my class</p>
<p>IMO no such limit exists. I ahve seen 6-12 students
head out to the same college. The larger the matriculating
number the more likely this is to happen given the students
at your HS are in the same stats range and get decent complimentary
reccs.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Colleges do try not to take too many students from one school or from one state, to increase geographic diversity. There aren't set quotas - if they already have four applicants from one school, the fifth won't be automatically rejected. But if they see two equally qualified candidates, and one is from a tiny school in rural Wyoming while the other is one of fifteen applicants from their high school, they'll admit the former first.</p>
<p>Are there official quotas? No. But some admissions officers don't like to take too many kids each year from one school, and the same person reads the apps from each school so they know the type of achievements and talent that come out of your circumstances (which can be bad).</p>
<p>However, I'd be much more worried about getting in at all.</p>
<p>Who is to know? The HS in my very good public school district had four Yale admits (typically 0-2 per year) last year. Quite the anomaly for sure!</p>
<p>Duke sent a mailing to parents recently in which it specifically addressed this question, and Duke says it will take an unlimited number of students from the same high school if Duke wants them.</p>