One kid in my school got into Stanford through REA. Historically, one kid from our high school gets into Stanford per year. Could Stanford accept multiple kids from the same school or do they try to get more geographical diversity?
They could. Accepting one kid from your school doesn’t create geographic diversity. Only one kid from your school being accepted each year is probably just because of how competitive it is.
Yes Stanford can accept multiple kids from a HS.
They can and they do.
Stanford doesn’t set quotas per high school (nor does any university that I know of). Usually, with smaller schools, the TREND is that they take fewer kids simply because there is a higher chance that the # of kids competitive for Stanford is smaller than say, at a very large high school where they might accept 3-4, for example. If both kids are competitive, they both have a shot at admission, regardless of the fact they go to the same school.
Agree with the above posters. Here’s another example: Our local public high school rarely sends kids to tippy top colleges and universities. I have never heard of any kids from there going to MIT – but this year, MIT has admitted 2 of those kids via ED. Good luck!
Some rejected students use the fact that someone else from their high school was accepted as a face saving excuse for their denial The denial is due to their not being good enough to be admitted.
Geographical/financial/ racial diversity can be a factor in not accepting many from one school so it’s possible. No university wants to fill up their class with 20 kids from one highly competitive suburban school. Your chances with similar resume can be much bright if you were from a nearby underprivileged urban school or rural school with no APs or another large suburban with no previous acceptances.
@TomSrOfBoston Oftentimes a denial is due more to the fact that the top colleges simply cannot accept all of the qualified candidates rather than that the student is “not good enough”.
Tom of Boston, true. We visited a top LAC in MA several years ago. At the time, the school’s acceptance rate was 14%. In info session, rep said that about 70% of all applicants were fully qualified to attend the school and succeed academically. So only 1 in 5 of fully qualified applicants were accepted. That’s the unfortunate reality at the small number of top tier of schools, like Stanford. The good news is that many, many very outstanding schools are not nearly as competitive and hardworking students are readily accepted and receive generous aid. It’s not primarily WHERE you to to school it’s HOW you go to school. Good luck, OP.
@happy1 My point was that a denial is not because another student from the same high school was admitted.