Geographical quotas? Competing for acceptance against those from your own school?

<p>Almost every school does this. The top-tier schools rarely take more than a handful from any one high school, so these things happen.</p>

<p>Public universities are much more likely to take many students from the same high school, especially when it’s an in-state school. (For example, over 90% of my high school’s students are accepted at MSU, and pretty much everyone applies.)</p>