<p>Simple question: Does Stanford (or any HYPSM) have admittance quotas for each school/district/region? Thanks.</p>
<p>Well, ~44% of the incoming class is from California, so I think there is some sort of priority by geographical region.</p>
<p>You can't claim that if 44% of the applicants are from California. Which is probably the case.</p>
<p>Hmm...well, I was wondering whether or not they only take a certain number from each school per year or per interval of years. Last year they took accepted 3 from our school and this year they accepted 4. I'm thinking about EA'ing Stanford, but there are 2 people in my grade who have decent stats and Stanford legacy, so I'm curious whether or not they have a school quota.</p>
<p>I don't believe they do. But they are very big on diversity, which means all sorts of things - including different high schools. If they feel you aren't able to offer a different perspective, which you can show in a million different ways, it may hurt you. I think that is more of a general philosophy rather than a reflection of some sort of quota system.</p>
<p>They seek geographical diversity, so they'll give a bit of an advantage to a kid from an underrepresented area, but they won't count the number of kids from a school.</p>
<p>I think the reason there is such a large percentage of kids from California is a large number of kids apply from California.</p>
<p>Mythreedd would be right.</p>
<p>The actual percentage is around 36%, not 44%.</p>
<p>So does Florida count as a geographically underrepresented region?</p>
<p>jassi: I doubt it. Usually that applies to the Midwest.</p>
<p>No school quotas. Two years ago my school had 9 get in (crazy), last year zero, and this year three.</p>