Students applying from same high school

[Anonymous]

How likely is a college to accept more students from the same high school during RD?

Lets say Larla and Karla got in ED to Selective U. Now Larlo, Marla, and Yarla apply RD to same Selective U.

What are Larlo, Marla and Yarla's chances of being accepted at that Selective U?

Or similar scenario to colleges with an acceptance rate anywhere from 5% to 45%?

[Anonymous]

I would imagine it varies widely by school. At our small top-rated magnet that gets kids into top schools it is hard to impossible in RD if someone is admitted ED/SCEA.

[Anonymous]

It will have an effect.

[Anonymous]

Depends on schools. If it's a college that your school feeds to, ED hooked, RD unhooked, ratio about 1 ED: 1.5 RD? Penn and Cornell are like that at our school.

[Anonymous]

It depends on your school. Look at how many are typically admitted each year. If a college typically takes 0-1 kids, it's unlikely that one year they'll take 4, unless those 4 are unusually accomplished.

Colleges don't have quotas but they tend to stay within the same ballpark number each year.

[Anonymous]

It also depends on the size of the college. Michigan? They can swing wildly each year on how many students they take from any one high school because they're filling 8000 spots.

Dartmouth? They usually won't as they're filling maybe 500 unhooked spots. It's hard for them to take more than a couple from any high school in America because there are 40K high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It also depends on the size of the college. Michigan? They can swing wildly each year on how many students they take from any one high school because they're filling 8000 spots.

Dartmouth? They usually won't as they're filling maybe 500 unhooked spots. It's hard for them to take more than a couple from any high school in America because there are 40K high schools.

But how many from the 40K high schools in America actually apply to Dartmouth?

[Anonymous]

Students at the same HS effectively compete with each other for college admissions.

The main exceptions are when applying to large universities with very high admission rates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It also depends on the size of the college. Michigan? They can swing wildly each year on how many students they take from any one high school because they're filling 8000 spots.

Dartmouth? They usually won't as they're filling maybe 500 unhooked spots. It's hard for them to take more than a couple from any high school in America because there are 40K high schools.

But how many from the 40K high schools in America actually apply to Dartmouth?

Definitely not ALL the 10-1000 (multiplied by 40K) Seniors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Students at the same HS effectively compete with each other for college admissions.

The main exceptions are when applying to large universities with very high admission rates.

Definitely this

[Anonymous]

Practically zero if you're a small high school.
A small chance if you're a large high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How likely is a college to accept more students from the same high school during RD?

Lets say Larla and Karla got in ED to Selective U. Now Larlo, Marla, and Yarla apply RD to same Selective U.

What are Larlo, Marla and Yarla's chances of being accepted at that Selective U?

Or similar scenario to colleges with an acceptance rate anywhere from 5% to 45%?

I have no idea but several colleges like NYU, Boston U, Barnard, BC, Columbia have already admitted groups of multiple kids (3-5) from our high school. So I don't think they mind going deep into the class if the quality of student is there.

[Anonymous]

That’s a really interesting question.
Is there cap per school?

[Anonymous]

And if there is a cap per school, I've already seen Reddit post from students saying that they got into one of the T5 now they are going to try all the rest of T10...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would imagine it varies widely by school. At our small top-rated magnet that gets kids into top schools it is hard to impossible in RD if someone is admitted ED/SCEA.

Didn't TJ magnet get 6 kids admitted to Harvard and 6 to MIT last year? TJ is the only DMV area school considered to be a "feeder" to Harvard, based on number of kids admitted for the last 15 years. So it depends on the school. I thought I read that Georgetown Day private school (GDS) got 6 kids into Harvard last year, and none this year. Factors like legacy and athletic recruit status will obviously come into play too.