<p>By this, I mean the history of accepted applicants from my school. </p>
<p>I go to a fairly large, fairly competitive public high school (~2000 total). Our school sends kids to Cornell, Columbia, Georgetown, Dartmouth, and other prestigious schools annually. But in the last 5 years, no one from my school was accepted to Yale, not on early nor regular. Our school has a website where we can view these applied student’s stats, and most of them were more than qualified students. </p>
<p>Can I take this to mean that it’s not a good sign? Honestly, I feel like Yale just doesn’t like our school. They do have a reason to, though: A few years ago, a girl who was offered admission and confirmed she’d attend Yale switched to Harvard on the very last day by flying to Harvard and talking in private to the Harvard admissions officers. Since then, no one has been admitted from my school. Is this bad for me, or will it have no effect? </p>
<p>I’m seeing this trend in a few other schools, too. In some of the other prestigious schools where a few were accepted and no one chose to enroll, the acceptance numbers dropped sharply next year. Does this mean colleges really do care how the previous applicants chose to do, and has bearing on us who are applying now?</p>
<p>I’ve read a lot of threads in which posters mention a school liking or disliking their HS, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything official about it.</p>
<p>On a side note:I don’t think anyone from my school of ~2000 has been accepted to Yale in this century.</p>
<p>Sounds like my school, we have about a 3-5% ivy matriculation rate each yr, but haven’t had a Yale acceptance since 2004, and since then… 1999… It looks like every five years and I’m really hoping that that’s a trend :P</p>
<p>I go to a school whose population is ~2500.
We had a student go to Stanford a few years ago, but that was it.</p>
<p>The stats site you mentioned doesn’t have subjective material such as extracurriculars, recommendations, and essays, does it?</p>
<p>My experience is that schools that have never sent students to Ivy institutions tend to think that the “perfect GPA/scores/class president/sports champion” is the only type of person who can get into Ivy schools. When they do have a person like that and the person gets rejected, the school automatically assumes you need to have “connections” in order to get in, and for anyone else it’s a crapshot.</p>
<p>To give you an idea, I know more about Ivy admissions than my guidance counselor. In fact, she has come to me to clarify things on the Common App a few times.</p>
<p>The schools that DO become admissions recruiting hotspots and send a good number of applicants a year are the places where parents start their kids in Kumon and the sitar at age 3 and read How to Go Ivy: the 23135135th Edition for leisure reading. </p>
<p>More students getting into top schools cause future students to prepare earlier. More students preparing earlier cause higher admissions rates.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be discouraged by the number of your school’s applicants who have been rejected. The college will only look at you and the context of your environment. As long as YOU applied conscious of Ivy admissions, you have as good of a shot as anyone.</p>
<p>You’re right, it doesn’t list any of the subjective parts. </p>
<p>It’s just that my school used to send about one or two kids to Yale almost every year before the “switching” incident, and now no one has been accepted for a few years. <em>sigh</em> But then again, it could be any number of factors. </p>
<p>Oh well, I guess I shouldn’t stress about factors that are not in my control.</p>
<p>Oh, I’m not complaining about our ivy matriculation rate, I’m complaining about our Yale acceptance rate compared to the ivy matriculation rate :P</p>
<p>Hey, my school is kind of similar. Compared to the numbers we send to Harvard/Columbia/Brown, the number accepted at Yale from my school is relatively tiny.</p>
<p>In the last four years, my school with a population of 2000-2500 has gotten, I believe, two or three people into Stanford, one into Yale, and one into Harvard. If that.</p>
<p>limetime- a similar thing happened to my school and BC. We were almost-nearly-kindof-notreally a feeder school (about 10 matriculating a yr) until some really bad partybusts or something there a couple years ago, now almost nobody gets in.</p>
<p>psh the last time someone at my school got into an ivy was 06 (one jewish mexican to harvard, hispanic to princeton). sent one vietnamese guy to stanford 07. and before that… i doubt anything spectacular. :/</p>
<p>Huh. Thats weird. My counselor was relieved when I told him that the ivy i said i wanted to go to was yale. Apparently no one from my school gets accepted into Stanford…usually we have about 5-8 students get accepted into ivies each year out of ~270. Yale has gotten 4 in the last 3 years. </p>
<p>However, my year ('09) has about 2x the amount applying to ivies as usual. 2 have even gotten scouted: 1 to princeton and 1 to stanford, yale, harvard, dartmouth, princeton, and Columbia…(yep, thats right. He’s an athlete and hes already gotten a qualifing time for the 2012 Olympics. I cant stand how easy it was for him.)</p>
<p>Does the fact that an athlete has been recruited diminish your chances of getting into Yale?
My school has a similar situation - a track runner, except not Olympic-quality. Still RA though.</p>
<p>i don’t think anyone has gotten into yale since 06. i don’t know how many got in that year, but one of them chose MIT.
i hope that has nothing to do with no one getting in, but this is just so wonderful! [/sarcasm]</p>