<p>my school is weird .. it seems like all the extremely smart, ivy-desiring kids are trying to work out deals with each other about which schools to apply to. apparently, ivies usually don't really accept more than one person per school (arguable, but usually not more than one or two) and now, everyone's claiming schools and tryign to prevent other people from applying. is this just my school? or is this just everywhere? i didn't even hear about this kinda thing until recently .. and still .. it's strange.</p>
<p>WHAT?! That is extremely selfish and unintelligent. </p>
<p>I doubt it'll make much of a difference in the long run (schools are choosing from huge pools of applicants -- who else applies from your school isn't a huge deal), but it's still a stupid thing to do. </p>
<p>People at my school joke (in some cases only half-joke) about these things, but nobody really takes it seriously. I think it's ridiculous.</p>
<p>I don't think they realize that Ivies do often take multiple people from the same school. Whether they do or don't, that's just stupid anyway.</p>
<p>Hahaha I have heard that schools only select a certain number of students from each school. And yes, I admit to having urged one of my friends to not apply to a school I really wanted to get in to. It didn't work, the school took one kid Early Decision and another Regular Decision, and rejected the other 6 or 8 applicants that I know of.</p>
<p>As crazy as it sounds, what your classmates are doing makes sense. The larger, more competitive pool a college has to choose from each high school, the less likely an applicant will be accepted. By making "agreements" about where each person should apply, your classmates are making desperate attempts to improve their chances.</p>
<p>It's immature, but it might improve their chances. Marginally.</p>
<p>I don't believe the "Colleges never take more than a couple of people from each high school". If your school is full of bright, hard-working students with good GPAs and SAT scores, colleges will accept them.</p>
<p>My school, this year alone, had I believe 10 students into Brown, 5 into Harvard, 8 into Yale, and 5 into Princeton.</p>
<p>^^ Magnet school / big popular prep school probably. Possibly a large (public) high school that is known to produce top students.</p>
<p>that is sorta weird.... and slightly paranoid.</p>
<p>At least your school produces more than three ivy-qualified students each year.</p>
<p>uh, we had like a dozen students apply to stanford. 5 got in, each very qualified in their own way. I know stanford isn't an ivy, but it's as competitive as some, and i highly doubt that their chances decreased just because their classmates applied as well.</p>
<p>I'm SOOO glad I go to a school where most people at my school can't name any out of state schools except for the ivies so that I can avoid this type of cut throat environment. The idea of bargaining schools sounds ridiculous though; you should apply wherever you want regardless of quotas or peer influence. It seems VERY selfish...and how exactly do these students prevent others from applying?</p>
<p>Ok really, smart kids should know better. Colleges don't have quotas, so this won't help them at all. And this is pretty much just your school. Oh, and these agreements won't last, count on that. There is no way to hold any of them to these agreements.</p>
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<p>I don't believe the "Colleges never take more than a couple of people from each high school". If your school is full of bright, hard-working students with good GPAs and SAT scores, colleges will accept them.</p>
<p>My school, this year alone, had I believe 10 students into Brown, 5 into Harvard, 8 into Yale, and 5 into Princeton.
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<p>I disagree. Between 25-30 Hunter College High School seniors used to be accepted by Harvard/Yale in 2003-5. Now it has shrunk to 6-8. Coincidence much? The What's What also only publishes the previous classes acceptances. So this might not be accurate at all. Even in the school newspaper, there are overlaps between accepted students. for example a student being accepted into Harvard, MIT, and Caltech. This student would be one of the acceptees of Harvard, MIT, and Caltech. Since schools do not choose one student : one school, this greatly screws up the proportions. </p>
<p>I believe this has something to do with how well HCHS class of 2007-2009 is/are doing. Probably they didn't do so well in the school even though they were favorable applicants. As a result adcoms pick less students from said Hunter College High School.</p>
<p>And how many students from Class of 2008 got into schools they were qualified for? </p>
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<p>true true. an extremely selective public high school more like.</p>
<p>just apply to all the ivies you want to apply to, its not like your friends will know u did</p>
<p>See, this is one of the reasons I'm glad I don't go to a top, elite, private high school. lol</p>
<p>My HUGE public high school (around 800+ people a class) usually has around 5-10 people going to the top Ivies/high ranking schools each year. The rest go to state schools (Penn State) or area colleges. So, I definitely don't have this problem at my school... most kids could care less where they went to college.</p>
<p>Hyunsook: 30 students were accepted by Harvard in 2005? Can you show me a link that proves that? 30 students is well over 10% of the graduating class, and I don't think 10% of the graduating class this year even applied to Harvard.</p>
<p>WantIvy: Why does it matter, for this argument, what sort of school it is? The point I'm making in this topic is that top colleges want top students, and if certain high schools contain more top students than other high schools do, colleges will still accept the top students regardless of where they went to school.</p>