Applying somewhere nobody else from my school is applying to

wmmts22
Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:07:16 +0000

I go to a competitive magnet high school, which would normally hurt me in admissions as everybody here is very smart

We have a spreadsheet showing the colleges everybody has applied to since 2021, their (anonymous) stats, and whether they were admitted or denied.

One of the colleges I was looking at, Belmont University, does not appear at all on this list. I don’t know of anyone here who went. So, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t get a whole lot, if any, applicants from my high school.

What I was wondering about wasn’t if this would boost my chances of getting in, as it has a ~90% acceptance rate, but I was wondering if it would put me in better standing for merit scholarships if 1) they see I come from an academically rigorous, “prestigious” (as prestigious as a public high school can be…) school, and 2) I’m not competing with anyone else from here, as I would be with some other colleges.

I know of course this stuff mostly depends on my stats and ECs themselves, but I was wondering if the context would help. Since Belmont is a very expensive school and they seem to be generous with merit aid.