@usagirl1776 : Unless it is a very small high school, I doubt that is true. Also, I wouldn’t put a “worst” by the name of those schools. Are you talking prestige or name brand when qualifying like that? There are probably a mixture of schools with lower and higher rank and name recognition that are technically “better” than those places in many or most ways, but if those schools are so heavily matriculated, that more so reflects the views of those students and the community, and those likely need to be expanded. Regardless, it is about how your son performs within his cohort at the school and the students that Emory has got from there in the past. If those students fell in similar income, demographic, or social status brackets and generally had better credentials, it still won’t be easy.