So... Does it make you mad when someone applies to the same school as you?

[RacinReaver]

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deeptin, while it is tempting to believe that, colleges absolutely do compare you to your other HS students. While they dont have exact quotas, they have rough quotas. I know many people misinterpret what the colleges craftily say, but the fact is, they are judging you in context with your other school applicants. They want people who excel in their environment. Being a 4.0 lots of activities person isn’t a big thing at all if your from a overpriveleged school with 50 similar applicants. It’s like on the SAT when you see answers to a question that are literally the same, you can eliminate both. If you are the only student from your school with X level of achievement, your chances are better than if HPYS sees that… oh, its apparently not hard at your school to do that acheivement because 15 other students did it. If there are 4 applicants who list “Debate Team Captain”, then that achievement is utterly worthless and will arouse suspicion.

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<p>Two of my friends and I all got into CMU for engineering. That’s a school with only around 1100 undergrads a year. And we were from a pretty large public HS on the other end of the state.</p>

<p>On applying to grad schools, two of my friends within my major of 15 people also applied to the same option at Caltech who accepted ~20 students total. All three of us were accepted. I don’t believe they’re doing quotas.</p>