And you’re school always has a significant number of people going to the ivy league. How if in any way does this affect chances of getting into said schools.
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If you’re talking about TJ, TAG, or Brooklyn Technical and not failing out, you’re in pretty good shape.
From what i’ve heard, the high school doesn’t matter much for college admissions if you utilize the opportunity around you.
On a grade level/per year basis, generally each college will kind of compare the applicants at each school to eachother and take the best. So if your school sends a significant amount, then a significant amount would have to apply so will probably make admissions harder.
I’m pretty sure where other students have gone in the past won’t effect your admission specifically, but you might someone to reaffirm that.
I think it’s probably more competitive to get in from those schools because colleges don’t want to take a huge number of students from any one school. But you need to consider that you also have way better educational opportunities and environment than most kids, so probably a kid from an average school would achieve more if they’d had the chance to go to your school’s better classes and participate in your school’s better activities.
neutral to slightly beneficial (if you are preforming well): on the one hand it will be a competitive environment so it is more difficult to be on top; however, if you are doing well, the long track record of accepting students from your school will give adcoms a familiarity w/ your school that would make them more comfortable when evaluating your app. There are no quotas - if you are a good candidate, it doesn’t matter how many other ppl from your school get in.
I’m not convinced that is true for the very top high schools. A top college could fill their entire class with well-qualified students coming out of the top 10-20 schools in the country, but they aren’t going to do that.
OP is a freshman-? Miles to go and much to prove. Top colleges don’t admit high schools. They admit the best individuals.
@mathyone There are only like 5-10 schools who send a significant percentage but not number because said schools are small.
In the private school arena, yes. However, Stuyvesant graduates over 800 and TJHSST almost 500. Again, it would never happen, but it could
@skieurope Let me clarify, I meant private schools.
Oh, TJ.
That was a useless post on my part. I was planning on applying there and 2 of my friends attend, lol.
@awesomepolyglot No, you’re not thinking high enough. something like the collegiate school. ~10-30% of students to ivies.
@RandomScreen That made me laugh. TJ doesn’t send ~10-30% of students to ivies because they’re going to Stanford, CalTech, or MIT instead.