Usually, one person each year goes to a top-ranked school (Ivies, Stan, etc.) Very frequently the person’s not the val/sal.
At our own schools you mean?
According to Naviance, these are the number of acceptances at my high school for the schools you listed:
Ivies: Usually 40 acceptances per year from Cornell, 5-10 for each of the other Ivies.
MIT: Usually 5 acceptances per year.
Caltech: Usually 1 acceptance per year.
Stanford: Usually 1 acceptance per year.
@cityonanocean yes that’s what I meant haha
and holymoly what school do you go to :0
^big competitive public (several hundred students) where it seems like every other person wants to be an engineer and half the school applies to cornell lol
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Last year:
Stanford
1/46
Harvard
4/18
Upenn
2/18
Caltech
1/15
Yale
1/13
MIT
2/13
Didn’t want to look anymore up. Apparently our class was fairly weak last year.
@chubii My school’s only sent two students to an Ivy, to my knowledge. One to Stanford, one to Yale.
We got in like 9 to Stanford, 7 to Harvard, 5 to Princeton last year
Holy crap, thankful my school is small and relatively noncompetitive (although my grade is an anomaly and competitive as heck). We usually only have 2 or 3 people get into “top” schools (only 1 HYPSM), not counting athletes.
Predicting that that number’s going to jump to 7+ my year, though.
My school is huge and we’re lucky if we send one.
I think the largest graduating class size in the US is always in one of the 3 schools in my school district. Despite this fact, we are still uber competitive.
At my school, only 1/3 of my 60-person senior class applies to the US, 1/3 apply to the UK and the rest apply to various places around the world. That being said, we’ve had 2 top tier US acceptances in the past 3 years (Duke & Stanford), 3 acceptances to top tier UK universities (Oxford, LSE, King’s College) and a bunch of acceptances to higher ranked schools (Northeastern, Northwestern, NYU, BU, etc.).
My grade appears to be super competitive compared to previous years - a lot of people seem to be getting 37-39/42 IB points for predicteds whereas our school IB diploma average is 33 points. As a result, I’ve been trying not to tell people where I’m applying to because I feel like they’d rather tear me down than support me if they knew. I’m already having trouble convincing myself that I am good enough to apply to an Ivy League school, I don’t need my friends’ parents saying “Are you really going to apply there?” as well.
Oops, sorry that turned into a rant, I’m just stressed that ED/EA apps are due in 22 days and I still feel so disorganized.
So, can I just ask a teacher to write me one recommendation letter but change the name of the school for each one? I don’t have many teachers to choose from for my apps, so I don’t know what to do. Can I just ask one teacher for several schools?
@XoXdreamerXoX At my school, the maximum is two teachers and 1 guidance counselor and you can apply to as many schools as you want. I think its fine if you use the same teacher for several schools. They will just alter that part of the letter for you or maybe they won’t even mention the specific school at all.
@XoXdreamerXoX - You typically only ask 2 teachers (MIT requires 2). They don’t need to mention the name of the school in their letter at all.
A lot of the time the teacher won’t even put the name of the school in the letter. They just say “your university”. At least that’s what I was told. @XoXdreamerXoX
My school is very competitive, but all the most competitive applicants are just competing for full rides to UMD because only one feeder school area can afford ivy tuition. That said, we have average of like 5-6 ivy acceptances a year (2200ish)
@XoXdreamerXoX My teacher didn’t mention the schools in my letter.
Thanks you all.
We really need our college adviser for these reasons. Our school is composed of either people who won’t be going to college or people who don’t know what to do to get into college, or the 1% that knows exactly what to do because of parents and stuff.
hey, this was my september act score.
C:32
E: 35
M:31
R:29
S:34
i have a 93.6 unweighted GPA, 96.5 weighted, in a very competitive high school and am an ib diploma candidate. can anyone tell me my chances at BC carroll school of management? I have a superscore act of 33, and BC superscores