<p>I’ve done my extra curricular activities including research at Yale, I have my 4.0 GPA and I have the highest ACT score in my school. But I’m nervous - why?</p>
<p>You’re nervous, and you should be, because if you’re a normal, high-achieving student like nearly everybody else on CC, you’d see that getting in to any Ivy League is like shooting fish in a barrel at night while blindfolded.</p>
<p>^^ Agree. See: [J.D</a>. Rothman: Why Your Brilliant Child Didn’t Get Into The Ivies](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>Why Your Brilliant Child Didn't Get Into The Ivies | HuffPost Life)</p>
<p>If you weren’t nervous, you’d be a fool. I’m the same as you - 4.0, valedictorian, highest SAT in school - deferred. But I have other options that I’m truly excited about, so I hope you do too.</p>
<p>lol @thesmiter, doesn’t the analogy become redundant when he has a blindfold on while shooting during the night? xD</p>
<p>I think the blind shooting into the barrel for fish is too generous. Try blind shooting into a lake…</p>
<p>The school has had Harvard graduates for the past 4 years but even after acceptance, they’ve all been rejected from Yale and the trend for 1 Harvard graduate and 1 cornell graduate at our school has now gone on for 4 years and signs are showing up its going to be the same this year. Is it true that there’s a quota for an area and admissions just doesn’t talk about this?</p>
<p>Quotas exist in the meta sense – your region is allotted roughly X no. of slots. But your statistical sample of your school is too small to make any generalizations to link it to any “quota”. Quotas for individual schools don’t exist – that would assume Yale is setting aside slots for one school over yours. There’s nothing to be gained by that. If an individual applicant from your school or any school is wanted by Yale, he/she will get an offer. Yale cares for its own needs, not the feelings of counselors or principals.</p>
<p>Agreed and relieved
Any approximate to how large the regions are? I’m studying in a centralized high school district which includes a total of 5 schools and 4 towns - that’s 4 different zip codes</p>
<p>There are about 10-12 regions for the entire world. I’m pretty certain your school district does not straddle two of them.</p>
<p>Our public HS in the midwest has had from 1 to 7 acceptances at Yale for past half dozen years or do. This year we’re at 4 (SCEA accepted) so far. Number aplying each year is about 20 out of about 250 seniors. It’s hard to draw conclusions with that much variability.</p>
<p>Yes there are “feeder high schools” that get several kids in every year. Adcom’s will not admit it. There are 37,000 US high schools out there. What are the odds that one midwest public HS gets several kids in every year? That the same HS’s get several kids in every year? What are the odds that 15,000 high schools never get a kid in? What are the odds that the 1% of HS kids from families with >$200,000 make up 40-50% of the students? What are the odds the same “subsets” are over represented every year and the same “subsets” in the US are under represented every year?</p>
<p>Well if your fishing for carp then just throw in some food and they’ll all come swimming. A shot gun might help as well :)</p>
<p>The HS I mentioned is a selective enrollment (also known as a magnet) school. All students are 90%tile or above on ACT/SAT. One third of students are low income. Two thirds are URM’s.</p>