12-14 ppl got in early from my school

JHS
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:59:02 +0000

It wouldn’t surprise me much if 12 people were accepted early at Stanford from (a) Harvard-Westlake, or (b) one of the big public high schools in Silicon Valley. They are big, and have lots of highly qualified applicants, many of whom are legacies, are faculty children, or have other strong ties to the university, and some of whom may be recruited athletes.

For comparison, it’s not at all unusual for 12 people or more at my children’s large Philadelphia public school to be accepted ED at Penn. Now Penn is a little less selective than Stanford, and because it’s ED it gets lots fewer early applications, and it accepts a few more people. But the principle is the same – year-in, year-out Penn gets many of the best applicants from this school, many of them have ties there (including through working on research projects with faculty), and it’s still only about half of the students from this school that apply ED.