<p>BurnThis, our area schools tend to get the same result. JHS, where I lived in the midwest, those schools got the results your schools did. And knowing the profiles of the kids and the quality of the schools, the results made a lot of sense. Kids in the lower part of the top quarter of the classes here are better prepared and have more impressive resumes than all but a handful of the kids in our old district which has the reputation of being a “good” district with about 90% going on to college. Here it’s like 99% going to college with the vast majority going to private selective schools. So for the top quarter to get into ivies and other highly selective schools is no surprise. And at schools like this the counselors do not worry about large numbers of kids applying to the same school most of the time. They get concerned when a large number want to go ED to the same small LAC, but we are talking really large numbers, and even then, many of the kids will get in, but it then becomes likely that some kids who would have gotten in without this crowd from the same school are going to be examined more closely with the intent to cull for diversity’s sake. The counselors at my older boys’ schools, one catholic and one independent never blinked an eye about too many kids applying to the same schools. Happens every year.</p>
<p>burnthis- i actually do think the number of applicants to the top schools from our school affected some people. people who deserved to get deferred were flat out rejected. also, with the brown ed kids, 12 out of 15 were deferred and none rejected, and the deans think this may be because this was the most we’ve had apply to brown ed and they didn’t know what to do with all of the applicants. we had good luck with penn (i believe it was around 11 out of 27), columbia (around 8 out of 16), and yale though, which are schools we tend to do well with every year. also, i believe we’ll have to wait and see how many these schools accept rd, because a lot of my friends are worried the high ed acceptances will mean low rd ones, which would make sense.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why it’s considered a negative for admissions if a kid is from a HS where a lower %age go to college. I would think this should be viewed like a kid whose parents didn’t go to college. Kids who are from HSs that send everyone to college are already at an advantage.</p>
<p>Burnthis:</p>
<p>We have same results in my kids prep schools where in early round 10 got early in H and similar number for Yale and a qyite a higher in Upenn. Princeton, I have no data. But each applicant is different. We have shared our concern in PMs and I am also proven wrong in my assumption that total numebrs of applicant matters. </p>
<p>I still do not know how one kid can get in and one kid can be rejected but high number of applicants does not seems to matter.</p>
<p>Well, schools like CHOATE Rosemary hall send over a dozen students each yr (on avg) to yale, princeton, nyu, and those schools in particular. I don’t necessarily think its fair but thats life. They have good relations with the HYP Admissions Officers, etc and that’s that. My friend goes there now and is smarter than most of the kids in her class and she’s probably goin to yale or something like that, a schoool she would probably not get into if she were still at the private school in my town.</p>
<p>I attend the school taxguy speaks of, and I can speak on its behalf to say that, yes, the people here care too much in the way of grades and SATs, and not at all in terms of pursuing interests/awards that make one stand out from a competitive applicant pool.</p>
<p>This problem extends somewhat throughout Montgomery County, as I have heard that even Blair High School (of Intel fame) hasn’t managed to send anyone to Harvard or Yale via EA decisions this year.</p>
<p>My school has thus far managed 1 per at MIT, Stanford, and Princeton, out of an obviously high number of applicants. We very much have to ignore the fact that anyone got into Princeton, too, as in recent years, it has been making questionable acceptances and acting quite un-Ivy-like, looking only at the numbers and not taking a holistic approach. Believe me, pulling through a 26% ED acceptance rate doesn’t impress the likes of us much, either.</p>
<p>I don’t know what you mean by un-ivy league like.I know at the competitive prep school my d attends there were three ED’s to Princeton. A legacy was deferred, a perfect numbers applicant was deferred and my d was admitted. She is not a minority, did not have perfect test scores though she had high grades and won a national competition in voice. There are two or three more RD applicants to Princeton so we’ll see what happens. Normally the school sends 2-4 kids a year to Brown ,Harvard & Yale , each.Maybe 1 or 2 to Dartmouth.</p>
<p>I live next to the a top public school district, often considered the big granddaddy of them all. About a quarter of the kids get into ivies each year and the counselors there do not worry about too many kids applying to one school. It doesn’t affect the results much at all. Other things they find more worrying.</p>
<p>Princeton accepted a girl from our school with only near-perfect numbers and absolutely nothing else (except a personality one assumes would negate the beneficial effects of a 2400 or a 4.0). Hence my concern about its “un-Ivy-ness,” cornfed. :D</p>
<p>Congrats to your D, by the way!</p>