<p>Colleges admissions officers can get quite miffed if everyone from a given high school turned down admission to their school in any given year. </p>
<p>My HS GC recounted that in one year, around 50 kids were accepted to one Ivy and all 50 ended up going elsewhere. As a result, that school’s admissions office decided to reject every kid from my school the following year as a form of “payback” despite them having comparable or superior stats. </p>
<p>All I can advise is if your son is certain it is his first choice to communicate that clearly in his essays, interviews, and ongoing correspondence within reason. </p>
<p>You may also suggest you and/or your son meet with the HS GC to ask what’s the status of the HS’s relationship with that LAC to get to the bottom of it. It is best to proceed with full knowledge than to be kept in the dark about such things.</p>