<p>@kingofqueens: It’s totally possible to have more than 15 acceptances to one top tier college. As Hanajima Arashi explained, it depends on your high school. My high school had 19 Cornell, 18 Northwestern, and 17 WashU acceptances. At least 2 students were admitted to each Ivy and MIT, but none for Stanford. A student could have multiple acceptances.</p>
<p>I’ve always had a feeling that a quota exists for each high school although the universities never say it. How else is my high school always sending at least 6 people to Harvard, but rarely any to Princeton or Stanford?</p>