<p>hey, can anyone give feedback on how advantageous or disadvantageous it is to apply to prestigious schools like upenn, cornell, dartmouth, duke, northwestern, uchicago, washu, etc based on:</p>
<p>public school of 2000+ students in arizona, one of top schools in city, and every year 2-5 students go to each of the schools i listed</p>
<p>thanks for the input!</p>
<p>cmon, any feedback?</p>
<p>It's really hard to answer your question when you don't give a lot of personal info. Whether or not your school is tiny/huge and if other people get accepted doesn't mean anything when it applies to your chances!</p>
<p>I think state residency matters a little, at some of them. Cornell I think is one. Duke definitely has quite a few NC students, and the largest percentage of their kids are from the southeast.</p>
<p>Otherwise, I'll have to pass to more knowledgeable sources. If you get a fact wrong they hit you over the head with their giant ledgers full of admissions numbers! 8-O</p>
<p>It won't have too much of an effect. There is something known as geographic diversity, but the elite national colleges don't really worry about that too much because so many people apply from everywhere. South Dakota might still have an edge, but I don't think Arizona would do too much. I think you are saying that it is a top high school. The number of people applying to an elite college is actually a bit of a disadvantage since they do go thru the applicants in sorted order by state and high school. Except for a few feeder high schools to specific ivies, they don't want to take a huge number of applicants from a single high school. In your case, it doesn't sound as if they have so many applicants from your high school that it would be a factor.</p>