Counselor talks to Admission Officer

Aniger
Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:37:55 +0000

Well that is what I was saying as well. If for whatever reason your school has never had a kid accepted to Harvard, it is very difficult (though of course not impossible) for your kid to be the first. If every year the top three kids are accepted to Ivies (wherever they actually end up going for whatever reason) and your kid is one of the top three for this year, he will probably be accepted and whatever the school has done in the past is probably enough and those colleges know your school and level of those top kids and what the recs look like from the teachers. If noone ever is accepted, even if the reason is that noone ever applies, it is a tough road.