<p>I'm wondering whether or not colleges have quotas, in that they don't accept more than a few people from each school. I found through naviance the number of applicants to each of my schools:</p>
<p>BC-18 (2 in early, couple deferred)
Brown-20 (1 in early, three deferred)
Dartmouth-6
Duke-6
Harvard-5
MIT-7
UPenn-8
Princeton-9
Tufts-16 (1 in early)
Yale-14 (8-9 deferred)</p>
<p>Stanford/Middlebury didn't have info.</p>
<p>I'm essentially applying against the same group of people, plus others, at every school I'm applying to. I'm worried that some kind of quota could be pretty disastrous for all of us. A Yale admissions officer told us they didn't have quotas, but I think they indirectly do, since they probably wouldn't want too many students from one single place.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it. Schools may have a “quota”-ish, but I know it’s not a strict quota. My school usually has one or two people per year going to top schools, and last year waaay more were accepted. Usually Brown accepts one every other-ish year, but last year we had at least two accepted (both of whom are going).</p>
<p>Just for reference, a rep from the state flagship (UCONN) came to our school and said that they do not have per-school quotas AT ALL; thus, perhaps it’s more of a private-school thing (or a top 50 school thing)…just an anecdote</p>
<p>Well of course UConn doesn’t at all, they accept tons of kids at CT. They don’t really plan on having a very “diverse” campus in terms of geography.</p>
<p>From my experience, any “quota” would be large enough not to be a concern.</p>
<p>These numbers are based on matriculation, so not 100% accurate (I no longer have access to Naviance), but…one year, 5 students enrolled at Princeton, while the next 2, 13 did. The colleges likely don’t want too many public school graduates or too many private school graduates, since a mix gives them more diversity, but if you’re qualified enough, I doubt a quota would be the reason you don’t get accepted. Of course, there’s more to admission than just numbers, and you may be accepted at places your “competition” doesn’t and vice versa. Each school likely wants something slightly different.</p>
<p>Yeah I finished my apps, these numbers are the number of applicants for each school this year. Nothing about matriculation has to do with these numbers.</p>
<p>I’m aware, but the matriculation numbers are related somewhat to applicant numbers. Although I cannot provide exact numbers concerning number of applicants vs. number of acceptances vs. number of matriculations, I can confirm that even at top schools, the number of acceptances varied greatly from year to year, which seems to go against the idea of a fixed quota, unless the quota was very large.</p>