<p>My High School normally gets 1 guy into stanford and occasionally 2, though our stongest applications usually apply out east. This year, the top 5 applicants are all lookings at stanford. How will this hurt my chances? One in athletic and i am a legacy, does this make a difference?</p>
<p>My high school very rarely sends kids to top schools. In past years, most of our top ten has gone to CSU's and lower UC's. In fact, I have a friend whose family actually moved (to a city a few hours away) so that their kids could go to a different high school, one with a better rate of getting kids into UC Berkeley.</p>
<p>But this year, we just had a really really strong class...so we're sending a girl to Harvard (but two of us got in, which is really incredible, 'cause I doubt anybody's ever gotten in in 114 years), I'm going to Stanford, another girl's going to Brown, 10 or so are going to Berkeley, a couple to UCLA...we did really unprecedentedly well with schools that barely ever take any of our high school kids. Which just makes me think that in the vast majority of cases it's really basically the quality of the applicants that count, not the college's history with your school.</p>