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I go to a small but pretty competitive school. There are 70 students in my grade. My school does not rank. My question is is that there is another person who wants to apply early to the same school I do (penn). She is a very good student and I think her grades and ec's are a little better than mine. Will the college look at us as individuals and disregard that were from the same school or do they care that they dont take 2 from the same school unless they are both super stellar.

By O71394658 (O71394658) on Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 08:47 pm: Edit

Interesting questions. It matters by school. I'm afraid I don't know UPenn's opinion on the matter, but I do know MIT doesn't like to admit more than 1 person from each class...I don't think it would make a difference with UPenn, considering just you and 1 other person are applying. I'm in the same situation at my school, except that I 0wn the other kid who's applying...

By Andymcgav (Andymcgav) on Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 09:30 pm: Edit

Are you sure that MIT does that?

By Elleneast (Elleneast) on Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 10:54 pm: Edit

Jlq3d3,

My daughter's school (which typically has graduating classes even smaller than those at your school) sends six or seven people to Penn each year....I am not privy to individual transcripts but some of these students must have slightly better credentials than some of the others.

It probably depends on the high school but Penn definitely takes multiple students from some small, competitive schools. Best of luck. Penn is a great school.

By Failure (Failure) on Monday, May 26, 2003 - 03:30 pm: Edit

Acceptances from my school:
MIT- 2
Caltech- 2
Princeton- 1
Harvard- 2
UPenn- 6 (2 to Wharton)
Stanford- 3
Yale- 2

Just naming the most competitive schools.

It's not true that these colleges will take only 1 student from each school, but despite what they claim, they do look at how many students are applying from a school: the more students applying from same school, the harder it gets for students in that school.

By Piku714 (Piku714) on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 11:24 pm: Edit

I know for a fact that MIT took 2 people from my school early and deferred the rest. I applied RA and got in. One person who was deferred got waitlisted, and that's it. I don't know if it makes a difference that I'm in Massachusetts, though.

By Nsk (Nsk) on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 11:30 pm: Edit

Acceptances from my school:

Harvard: 1
MIT: 3
UPenn: 2
Stanford: 1
Caltech: 1
Yale: 1
Cornell: 5
NYU: 5

It seems that MIT took more than 2 people from my school!

By Gianscolere (Gianscolere) on Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 05:58 pm: Edit

For the school I will attend next year, the colleges took in more than one in any given year. Here are the complete statistics for the students who have chosen to ENROLL at the respective colleges.

For the CLASS OF 2002 only (of about 170 graduating students)
TOP 20 COLLEGES
1. Brown 16
2. Harvard 11
3. Columbia 9
4. Dartmouth 7
5. Boston University 6
6. Skidmore 6
7. Middlebury 5
8. Wesleyan 5
9. Yale 5
10. Boston College 4
11. Colby 4
12. Connecticut College 4
13. Cornell 4
14. New York University 4
15. Northwestern 4
16. Oberlin 4
17. UPenn 4
19. Princeton 4
20. Vanderbilt 4

Matriculation List for 1998-2002 (TOP 5)
1. Harvard (67)
2. Brown (59)
3. Columbia (52)
4. Yale (42)
5. Middlebury (28)

And the rest:
Dartmouth 25
U. Penn 20
Georgetown 20
Wesleyan 20
Stanford 19
Northwestern 19
NYU 19
Skidmore 18
Wellesley 17
Boston University 17
Princeton 16


Hope this helped.

By Itgoeslikethis (Itgoeslikethis) on Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 06:42 pm: Edit

hey gianscolere, what school do you go to and where?

By Collegeguy (Collegeguy) on Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 06:56 pm: Edit

Wow.

The OP must go to Stuy, TJ, Exeter, Andover, IMSA, or something like that

By Txkid (Txkid) on Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 07:38 pm: Edit

harvard - 0 got in
princeton-2 got in
yale- 1 got in
stanford-3 got in
rice-4 got in ( in rice/baylor)
columbia-1 got in
caltech-1 got in
MIT-2 got in

By Txkid (Txkid) on Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 07:39 pm: Edit

**(1 got into rice baylor)

Are these numbers good...or just avg.? Does this make my school competitive?

By Gianscolere (Gianscolere) on Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 04:55 pm: Edit

Txkid: Yes, that makes your school competitive. That's an impressive college acceptance record!

Itgoeslikethis: I will be attending Milton Academy in the fall in Milton, MA near Boston. It's not the best school in the nation but I was pretty impressed so I'm applied.

Anyway, in this link, you will find the top ten high schools across the US that had the highest percentage of the graduating class enrolling at Harvard, Yale, or Princeton (not including other Ivies and elite schools): http://www.auap.com/prepschoolclass.html

Milton is a really good school. You should apply if you have yet to start high school.

By Gianscolere (Gianscolere) on Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 06:24 pm: Edit

So how competitive does it get in your schools? I attended a college prep school where the competition was so cutthroat the kids are hating each other if one gets a higher mark... a whole bunch of kids aspiring for the Ivies...

By Gianscolere (Gianscolere) on Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 06:36 pm: Edit

I have a friend from another highly-competitive prep school, and she has one B in an all-honors course schedule (she's a sophomore) and the rest A's...her rank is 75th out of 220. The competition there is also very fierce, considering students had to be at least in the 95th percentile to be admitted in the first place. A year or two ago (during which she applied), scores had to be at least in the 97th. Many parents are complaining already, arguing the school should not rank the students further because many of them tend to become overly sensitive.

Speaking of selectivity, there was an article that was published concerning an applicant who scored 3 deviations above grade level and who lived merely a block away from the school...and she still was not accepted.

By Supernova (Supernova) on Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 08:51 pm: Edit

hmmm we have

harvard- 1
princeton - 2 from waitlist
mit- 2 girls
columbia - several atleast 5 not all are going tho
brown - prolly several
cornell- a lot i'm sure
upenn - atleast 2
caltech - no clue
rutgers- :-D a million gazillion

lots others to tufts, nyu, etc...

you can tell what state i'm from

By Jje (Jje) on Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 09:06 pm: Edit

most colleges care more about comparing you to the applicant pool rather then individual classmates. Hope that helps.