Do Colleges Blacklist High Schools?

slick908
Fri, 28 Jun 2013 19:45:19 +0000

In other words, do colleges make it harder for some students from certain high schools because of past experiences with their students, administration, etc? For example, my school has had only two MIT acceptances in the past 25 years, despite many people applying each year, and many getting into Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, etc. One of the acceptances was ten years ago, and the student chose Harvard over MIT, and the other was three years ago, and they did the same thing and chose Harvard over MIT. Do you think MIT maybe “blacklist” or make it more difficult to get into because of these students, or for other reasons?