<p>I recently heard from a friend of mine who is close with an admissions counselor that Yale will typically only accept 2-3 people from any given high school. If true, this means bad news for me as 2 peers of mine recruited for athletics have already been accepted there.</p>
<p>I would appreciate any thoughts and opinions with respect to the validity of what I heard.</p>
<p>I don't think that colleges put a quota on the number of accepted students from any school, or atleast that is what my college counselor told my class. Whether or not you get accepted, rejected, or wait-listed matters depends more on your own personal strengths than anything else.</p>
<p>I think it is an issue, but a minor one. Like when 10 people are. I don't think 3 people will hurt your chances.</p>
<p>The problem is that Yale doesn't want a class composed of kids from high schools in Fairfield County, Connecticut where I live. They want geographic and socio-economic diversity, not a bunch of wealthy New Englanders. If Yale were to admit all of the extremely qualified kids at my extemely competitive public high school, then 10 or so would be accepted (hopefully along with me!). But that definitely won't happen, as my guidance office has pointed to a 6 year trend showing only 1 or 2 acceptees to Yale. I think this trend shows that Yale does keep track of the number of students they accept from a particular high school, and are unlikely to break that trend with college admissions being what it is today.</p>
<p>Nah, there are the top new england private prep schools that send more 2 students to yale each year (the amount admitted is even higher) so that sort of nullifies your friends theory.</p>
<p>Plus the use of quotas are illegal.</p>
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<p>Call them "limits", "targets", or what-have-you, but are implicit cutoffs that colleges use. They simply have too many applicants.</p>
<p>Joey</p>
<p>senator, I hear you. Stanford is that way with kids out here in the valley, BUT they accepted 4 kids from my town (they've taken 4 in the 10 previous years), and they aren't as outstanding as some of the ones that have been denied previously.
They don't use de jure quotas, but I hear they do use de facto ones. I hope you get in, maybe I'll see you.</p>
<p>handsonthedash, thanks for the good wishes. I hope I see you too at Yale, but considering that 2 kids from my school have been accepted early and 12 really competitive peers with very similar stats as mine are also applying RD, things aren't looking to good, especially given the 2 person a year trend.</p>
<p>That is definitely not true. The NE prep schools always get a large number of Yalies. Usually in the double digits. MY son's school has taken 4 this year and 4 the year before and we are not in RD yet. Scarsdale Highschool has had more than a handful of Yalies, I know, if we eant to discuss public schools. At the average public school, just statistically there would not be those kinds of numbers for kids who are Yale material. When you start looking at the high powered high schools, the ones in well heeled areas or that have a selection process, that is a different story. Those kids are preselected.</p>
<p>well, in Fairfield County, CT there are many great public high schools with students that are Yale material. Many well-deserving kids have been turned down. Don't you think that it's a bit peculiar that only 2 students are accepted every year from such a competitive high school when there are more applicants from my school now than ever who are Ivy material?</p>
<p>Senatorbrooks, though Yale took 4 EA from our school, some of the kids who were deferred and turned down were well deserving. I would say a couple of them were way up there. One is a Sieman Westinghouse finalist with nearl perfect stats. And taking the kids from Scarsdale which is just 10 minutes down the Hutch from Fairfield County is not going to give more diversity to Yale's numbers as NY is very much an overrepresented state. I know many, many kids who were turned down by Yale for reasons I cannot fathom. And I know kids accepted that were a surprise. All schools have their wishlist for that year, and who knows what is on it. If your school is getting 2 kids in every single year for the last 10 years to Yale, I would be surprised. What about the other ivies? How many are getting into, say Harvard or Princeton?</p>
<p>Harvard and Princeton accept even less every year. Only about 1 person gets into each, with some years where no one gets in. I completely agree that well-qualified students are going to get rejected for reasons we cannot fathom, but I have just found it strange that the same number of kids are accepted into Yale every year, even though the applicant pool at my high school has gotten better than ever before for every succeeding year. I have to say though that I seriously doubt that Yale will significantly change the number of admits from my school if only 2 have been accepted for so many successive years.</p>
<p>You know, some colleges give quotas for nearby areas in their state. This is not a ceiling quota but a basement quota. I can tell you that I know of some "good " public schools, in my area where maybe one kid if that makes it to HPY each year. And the schools I know with this quotas do not advertise them.</p>
<p>well, I live about 40 minutes south from New Haven, close to the NY border, and I definitely believe that Yale purposefully accepts a small number of students from my school because of our close proximity and lack of socio-economic diversity.</p>
<p>I just don't see any other reason why only 2 are accepted every year.</p>