Hello all-
I attend an average, medium-sized suburban public school that sends about 2-3 kids to Ivies each year. However, Yale has already admitted 3 seniors from my school through early admission, and 2 of the 3 have confirmed that they will enroll. Will Yale even consider my application given the number of students from my high school already accepted?
Thank you!
No quotas. Your chances are equal to anyone else – which is pretty poor, to be frank.
It will have no effect on your chances, but why not be an optimist? Figure that Yale this year seems to look favorably on your school.
Fwiw, my son’s school usually gets 1-2 admits to Yale each year out of a class of 100; his year they accepted 4. There are no quotas.
Okay thank you both! I know the chance of acceptance is minuscule but hey why not dream?! 
I agree with @T26E4 and @Ixnaybob that Yale doesn’t have quotas. However, Yale cannot take every strong student who applies from a given high school. At my son and daughter’s high school (Stuyvesant), 130 to 150 students regularly apply to Yale – and most of them would be standouts at any “regular” high school. But, in the past thirty years, Yale has not accepted more than 15 students from Stuy in any given year. So, for some schools, there does seem to be a maximum number of students Yale Admissions is willing to take every year. If your school uses Naviance, or another software package that tracks college admissions, check the data to see the maximum number of students who been admitted to Yale each year, as the data will vary from high school to high school.
@gibby - well we know for sure they are not going to take 130 to 150 from any one school, no matter how good. But the answer that most have given is probably valid. If they have already accepted 3, your chances are the same as if they had accepted none - 6% give or take. Some years my D’s high school took 2, some years 5 or 6. This is from a class that usually consists of 125 students.
Good luck.
How do your qualifications stack up in comparison to those already accepted? If they’re as good or better, than you have a chance - if they’re not, then you probably don’t.
No one from my high school (rural southern) has ever gone to Yale, maybe because so few apply. We had 3 apply this year, fingers crossed that I can be the first to go!