<p>I’m currently a Junior looking to apply ED at Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Same here except wrong school. I mean the classes are even college prep and everything. I mean my school does buisness with universities and all. We are expected to go to a University if we don’t then they have failed us… So they say. Do you feel where I’m coming from</p>
<p>Why would you think going to a private Catholic HS would hinder your college admissions??</p>
<p>It doesn’t. It shoudl only make your acceptence to where ever greater.</p>
<p>^ I’m “feeling” you, but take this opportunity to make them proud. My daughter went to small “Christian” (not Catholic) school. She was not worried, but I was. My worries were because the level of credentialling of the teachers was not the same as the local publics, many credits were spent on required religion classes, and the school was too small to offer a variety of classes at a variety of levels. The school did send most of it’s graduates to college, but the mission and the priorities of the school was not fiercly acadmeic. I think in California, the number of UC approved classes tells you someting about the competitiveness of your curriculum , as will apporved AP classes, AP scores and SAT II scores. That being said, my daughter had little of that going for her, and she did okay.</p>
<p>Dang. So a small school and not much attention. Is that what I’m getting?</p>
<p>I mean We have Freshman Soph and Junior so far. Next year senior and a new row of Freshmen. Everything is new in the school plus college prep catholic private HS. They send us to work Once a week and 1 Monday per month. We get the experience so once we are out of highschool we have education and work experience to handle what ever life throws at us. So it is kind of cool.</p>
<p>I think many schools will evaluate you in your context, so if it’s a unique context, perhaps that will garner some attention. That may have worked in my daughters favor. My daughter had 89 in her graduating class, and it was her schools 6th graduating class if I am not mistaken. She certainly was able to stand out there. I was more concerned about how well the curriculim had prepared her.</p>
<p>Who cares? You go where you go. Finding statistics for where “people like you” were accepted isn’t going to change anything. Focus on what matters: making your application as attractive as you can.</p>