College Admissions for 7 Top Montgomery County High Schools

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Anonymous wrote:To me the key question is: do the elite universities basically have quotas for each school? With 1 kid in college and another on the way, I've noticed patterns like this.

So if Yale takes 2-3 kid from each school, that's good news for the 15 Yale applicants at St. Albans. It's pretty crummy news for the 40 Yale applicants at Walt Whitman. Even if 15 of the Whitman kids are stellar applicants, there's no way Yale is going to take all 15 from Whitman when there are good kids next door at BCC. So in this completely hypothetical example, St. Alban's acceptance rate is 3/15 = 20% and Whitman's acceptance rate is 3/40= 7.5%.

No they do not have quota. Yale took 10 from Sidwell last year. The idea that your kid will suffer because he/she goes to a competitive high school with lots of applicants is bogus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To me the key question is: do the elite universities basically have quotas for each school? With 1 kid in college and another on the way, I've noticed patterns like this.

So if Yale takes 2-3 kid from each school, that's good news for the 15 Yale applicants at St. Albans. It's pretty crummy news for the 40 Yale applicants at Walt Whitman. Even if 15 of the Whitman kids are stellar applicants, there's no way Yale is going to take all 15 from Whitman when there are good kids next door at BCC. So in this completely hypothetical example, St. Alban's acceptance rate is 3/15 = 20% and Whitman's acceptance rate is 3/40= 7.5%.

No they do not have quota. Yale took 10 from Sidwell last year. The idea that your kid will suffer because he/she goes to a competitive high school with lots of applicants is bogus.

Of course it is. If it were true, people would be pulling their kids from Sidwell or Whitman to enroll their kids at Wheaton or Kennedy. Haven't seen much of that, have we?

[Anonymous]

If Yale doesn't regularly admit from Wheaton and Kennedy, which I'm sure they don't, it's going to be a very long shot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To me the key question is: do the elite universities basically have quotas for each school? With 1 kid in college and another on the way, I've noticed patterns like this.

So if Yale takes 2-3 kid from each school, that's good news for the 15 Yale applicants at St. Albans. It's pretty crummy news for the 40 Yale applicants at Walt Whitman. Even if 15 of the Whitman kids are stellar applicants, there's no way Yale is going to take all 15 from Whitman when there are good kids next door at BCC. So in this completely hypothetical example, St. Alban's acceptance rate is 3/15 = 20% and Whitman's acceptance rate is 3/40= 7.5%.

No they do not have quota. Yale took 10 from Sidwell last year. The idea that your kid will suffer because he/she goes to a competitive high school with lots of applicants is bogus.

Of course it is. If it were true, people would be pulling their kids from Sidwell or Whitman to enroll their kids at Wheaton or Kennedy. Haven't seen much of that, have we?

That assumes parents send their kids to privates/high achieving publics SOLELY for the purpose of admission to competitive schools, and it's 100% wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To me the key question is: do the elite universities basically have quotas for each school? With 1 kid in college and another on the way, I've noticed patterns like this.

So if Yale takes 2-3 kid from each school, that's good news for the 15 Yale applicants at St. Albans. It's pretty crummy news for the 40 Yale applicants at Walt Whitman. Even if 15 of the Whitman kids are stellar applicants, there's no way Yale is going to take all 15 from Whitman when there are good kids next door at BCC. So in this completely hypothetical example, St. Alban's acceptance rate is 3/15 = 20% and Whitman's acceptance rate is 3/40= 7.5%.

No they do not have quota. Yale took 10 from Sidwell last year. The idea that your kid will suffer because he/she goes to a competitive high school with lots of applicants is bogus.

Right, but that was an incredible outlier year for Yale and Sidwell. Most years aren't anywhere near like that. Just a few years ago, Sidwell was shut out at Harvard.

Don't be silly, nobody is saying there are quotas as in "OK, we took 3 from Sidwell so we're done this year." But I suspect there are rules of thumb.

If you look at the averages over the past 5-6 years, it really does seem like elite colleges take a few from each school each year. Not a quota, but seemingly a rule of thumb. And stop with the outlier years. Another way to think of this is, if Yale took 10 kids from Sidwell every year, it would be way harder than 1/10 to get admitted to Sidwell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To me the key question is: do the elite universities basically have quotas for each school? With 1 kid in college and another on the way, I've noticed patterns like this.

So if Yale takes 2-3 kid from each school, that's good news for the 15 Yale applicants at St. Albans. It's pretty crummy news for the 40 Yale applicants at Walt Whitman. Even if 15 of the Whitman kids are stellar applicants, there's no way Yale is going to take all 15 from Whitman when there are good kids next door at BCC. So in this completely hypothetical example, St. Alban's acceptance rate is 3/15 = 20% and Whitman's acceptance rate is 3/40= 7.5%.

Even with quota, these are crappy results.

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I generally agree except about Sidwell being "shut out"of Harvard. i am not sure if we are thinking of the same year, but two kids got into Harvard and chose to go elsewhere ( another ivy and a LAC). , utquote=Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To me the key question is: do the elite universities basically have quotas for each school? With 1 kid in college and another on the way, I've noticed patterns like this.

So if Yale takes 2-3 kid from each school, that's good news for the 15 Yale applicants at St. Albans. It's pretty crummy news for the 40 Yale applicants at Walt Whitman. Even if 15 of the Whitman kids are stellar applicants, there's no way Yale is going to take all 15 from Whitman when there are good kids next door at BCC. So in this completely hypothetical example, St. Alban's acceptance rate is 3/15 = 20% and Whitman's acceptance rate is 3/40= 7.5%.

No they do not have quota. Yale took 10 from Sidwell last year. The idea that your kid will suffer because he/she goes to a competitive high school with lots of applicants is bogus.

Right, but that was an incredible outlier year for Yale and Sidwell. Most years aren't anywhere near like that. Just a few years ago, Sidwell was shut out at Harvard.

Don't be silly, nobody is saying there are quotas as in "OK, we took 3 from Sidwell so we're done this year." But I suspect there are rules of thumb.

If you look at the averages over the past 5-6 years, it really does seem like elite colleges take a few from each school each year. Not a quota, but seemingly a rule of thumb. And stop with the outlier years. Another way to think of this is, if Yale took 10 kids from Sidwell every year, it would be way harder than 1/10 to get admitted to Sidwell.