<p>How do you communicate: your grades, scores, applications, essays, recommendations, additional information. All of these communicate. If you have specifcs you or you GC needs to bring that to attention of the committee. </p>
<p>The committee has admissions officers who specialize in certain regions. They have a good idea about the school, its profile and demographics. If you school sends two people every year, then they know your school. If your school has never sent anyone to Caltech or Ivy’s, you need to bring that to the attention carefully. </p>
<p>Your GC for example might state “you are one best students in the last 5 or 10 years the school has produced”, or you may want to write an essay that you decided that you are going to challenge yourself has most of your cohorts do not seem to value higher education or something to that effect. </p>
<p>Saying I come from a mediocre school will not help. Saying in that “spite of the limitations of my school”, I achieved “this” portrays you in better light.</p>