Do Colleges Blacklist High Schools?

gibby
Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:14:45 +0000

A college sometimes will blacklist a high school for violating the rules of college admissions. For example, a college might blacklist a high school if they allowed a student to apply to multiple colleges SCEA, or if they allowed a student to apply to one college SCEA and to another ED, or if they allowed a student to apply to multiple colleges ED, etc. Other than that – no – colleges don’t blacklist high schools. They may become annoyed if students they accept one year don’t matriculate, as in kenyjubilant’s example with Princeton, but they’ll accept the next wiz-kid that comes along if they are truly interested in that student.

That said, some colleges do have better relationships with certain high schools than others. Some of that has to do with the caliber of student a high school graduates, and some of that has to do with the personal relationship a guidance counselor or college advisor at a high school has with a college Admissions Office.