<p>My friend was accepted EA to Yale today. I applied through Questbridge, and wasn't matched to Yale, but is it my top choice, and I'm applying through regular decision. If a school, especially an Ivy League, accepts a student from x school or y town, does that lower all other students' chances of being accepted from that same location? Do Ivy Leagues have some "1 student per school" or "3 students per county" rule? I'm curious if my chances will be affected now.</p>
<p>No quotas. Yale will take multiple candidates from the same school.</p>
<p>My school usually gets 10 harvard accepts - there are about 50 kids per grade too.</p>
<p>Ah, interesting. That’s good news - I was under the impression it was a 1-per school deal. So if someone got accepted ED then RDs didn’t really have a shot.</p>
<p>^^If you go to something like Dalton, I’m not remotely surprised.</p>
<p>The only caveat to “no, it doesn’t decrease your chances” is this: your application may look pretty good, but if the other person from your school has substantially better r</p>
<p>Fair enough. Though our resumes were similar. The difference is while I am first generation, he has one brother in Harvard and another in MIT (I’m the oldest sibling). He also has SAT scores of around ~2150 while mine are 2070, but I’m sending my ACT instead (32).</p>
<p>quotas assume Yale feels pressure to spread the wealth to curry favor at other high schools. This just isn’t so. </p>
<p>They’ll accept whom they want, from where they want. The individuals’ strengths/weaknesses will dictate the decision – not some rumored “one accept/school” policy.</p>
<p>^lol. While I almost always agree with T26E4, I have just recently come the conclusion that he/she is rather pugnacious</p>
<p>A lot of qualified applicants from my school were deferred/rejected. Only one person got in, and she was recruited.</p>
<p>S says he’s aware of three students from his school who were admitted EA today. There may be more, as he hasn’t heard reports on everyone who applied (he didn’t apply). But clearly they’ll take more than one from a school if they want.</p>
<p>^Same! The one acceptee was a recruited guy, really really good at math but a HUGE partier. It just makes me kinda bitter that a kid who probably does illegal stuff twice a week got in…</p>
<p>Nobody from our school has gotten in ANYWHERE early, except one URM to Stanford. It’s crazy.</p>