<p>I was rejected for EA and was pretty sad, while the other person in my school was accepted.</p>
<p>But I have noticed this:</p>
<p>I know 5 other people who were rejected, all with great stats and the such. But someone else from their school applied and was accepted. All of us go to small schools.</p>
<p>So what I am saying is: it seems like Yale does care about how many people they accept from one school, and if you are doing regular decision and have someone else applying from your class then make sure you have a more solid application than they do.</p>
<p>And don’t stress, since 90 percent of people will be rejected, too!</p>
<p>That would be a terrible way to make admissions decisions, because you’d be judging a person against a handful of other people, instead of 20,000 other people. No one school’s applicants are a representative sample of the applicant pool, so it would be foolish to use an individual school as a basis for comparison. </p>
<p>Regional comparisons are reasonable, especially considering how yale sets up its admissions office (individual officers are assigned regions and read all applications from those regions). </p>
<p>Case-in-point: in my year, four people from my public school got into harvard, out of maybe 10-12 applications. In other schools (elite/private, andover, exeter, boston latin, guilford, choate, etc…) dozens of people get into the most selective ivies every year.</p>
<p>Two people from my school applied EA and got accepted. Also, if you look at the admit site, you’ll find that in many cases up to FIVE people from any one school have been accepted.</p>
<p>Agree with kwijiborjt. Yale probably does compare applicants from the same high school. It seems almost irresistible for admissions officers to avoid drawing comparisons between applicants who have been hatched in exactly the same incubator. BUT at least in our experience, Yale definitely does not impose quotas on the number of students they’ll accept from a given high school, even a very small one: Last year, Yale accepted two kids from my son’s miniscule graduating class (under 30 kids). And it’s definitely not a feeder high school.</p>
<p>I think what Yale does is not so much “caring about how many people they accept from a school,” but rather evaluating each student in the context of the opportunities they have at their school. If half a dozen applicants from one school are super-involved with something, and one of them hasn’t done squat, then the latter obviously hasn’t been taking full advantage of the opportunities offered, and .: will probably not take full advantage of the opportunities offered at Yale, and .: is rejected.</p>
<p>There is no “quota per school.” You are compared against people in your own area, but not necessarily in your own school. Five people including myself were accepted from my public high school, but many others were rejected/deferred. You can’t blame the person who got accepted for your rejection; he/she had little to do with it.</p>
<p>OP: I agree with the other respondents. Two yrs ago, FOUR admits came from my area HS of about 12 apps. Last year there was only one. I see it as individuals who happen to capture the readers’ attn.</p>
<p>wjb, you give me hope. My graduating class is also under 30 kids, and I and one other person have applied to Yale. Lookbeyond, i hope you’re right, because the other applicant from my school has a 1530 on the SAT, compared to my 1440. I feel like I have a better set of extracurriculars, but he’s a national merit scholar for crying out loud. Whatever, we’ll see.</p>
<p>At my school, 4 were accepted, 9 were deferred and 1 was rejected. It’s a lot better than last year when 1 was accepted and 11 were deferred (only for all of them to be rejected in RD).</p>
<p>I disagree with this perspective. Yale accepted six people from my school ED, a highly competitive public high school in Maryland. Think about it: would it really be fair for them to set a quota per school? If they did that, you would be compared to other applicants from your school moreso than the general population of applicants from around the country and the world.</p>
<p>in my D"s hs every kid who applied ED at Yale was rejected this year! and we are talking about a very competitive hs( ranked 4th in the state) i am anxious for those who apply RD, like my D! only one got accepted at Princeton ED, 4 waitlisted ED at MIT so far…</p>
<p>Okay, there definitely is a comparison thing going on. The thing is that, you are evaluated in different ways - and I am picking from what you guys are saying, not from what I know.
You are evaluated in these ways:
Would you take full advantage of the resources that Yale offers? These resources would build THE student that Yale College was made to build. (did I make sense?)</p>
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<li><p>Have you out shined your high school competitors? Do you stand out? How would these two contribute to the bluewhitebulldog that you want to be?</p></li>
<li><p>There is definitely a high school comparison effect too. Those elite schools: exeter and etc all have lots of students at Yale because the high school prepares them well for college. They could get their Phd’s from high school!</p></li>
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