Getting in from California---impossible?

UCmomma
Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:18:26 +0000

I’ve heard of top colleges leaning toward students from certain top high schools like Phillips Exeter or Harvard Westlake, etc., but NEVER of them “blacklisting” a certain high school. That would go against the trend of making an Ivy League education accessible to all. If someone has what it takes to get into HSPM, the same should have a fair shot at Y, but in coureur’s high school’s case, it must be a fluke lasting many years. A friend of mine’s D did not get into her state school, but got into Wellesley. Go figure.

zz - my D was also the very first one from her high school accepted to Princeton! In fact, she was the first from her high school to go to Ivy League. I had talked with a Princeton admin counselor about that concern and he reassured me that every year, they accept students from schools that have never ever sent any one to Princeton.