<p>Does anyone from a small public school get into a highly selective university? I come from a small rural town that only graduates like 100 people a year. They only offer like 4 AP classes. Is anyone else in a similar situation?</p>
<p>I came from an over crowded small public school and last year for the first time in history we sent 2 girls to Yale. It helps that there is not much competition.</p>
<p>Yeah so do I... we offer 5 APs, but only 4 of them were offered to my class. It's true though that small rural school does mean less competition in really selective schools, so it can be kind of an advantage in its own way.</p>
<p>Selective schools put together a "class". Some students just like you, small community schools without the offerings of the giant, well funded suburban schools......it is all possible. Don't despair.</p>
<p>actually the OP is in a <em>good</em> position as far as college goes (but maybe not on the optimism scale :) ) Adcoms are constantly scouring the country looking for "finds" like this, a small rural school with no history of sending kids to elite colleges. </p>
<p>What matters isn't the number of AP classes you took, its whether you took advantage of all that was available, what your teachers will say about you, what you write in your recs, and other things that convey a <em>love</em> of learning as opposed to dry test scores.</p>
<p>IMHO the OP is in a far <em>better</em> position than kids at a top school in NYC or Long Island; sure those schools send some kids each year, but virtually <em>every</em> kid at those ultra-competitive schools thinks she/he deserves to go and there are lots of disappointments every year.</p>