Wharton vs. Columbia?

laodicean
Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:59:45 +0000

It is not at all true that HYPSM won’t take more than 2 kids from the same school. Two years ago, Yale accepted 6 students from a class of 450 (we live 10 minutes away from Yale too. Our town is known to be where all Yale faculty reside. This works as a disadvantage for most applicants from our school.). That year, multiple students were accepted to most Ivy League schools, with the exception of Harvard and Princeton. This year, we had three people admitted to Yale, one to Harvard, one to Princeton, two to Stanford, four to Penn, one to Columbia, two to Dartmouth, one to Brown, and none to Cornell. While these schools certainly have quotas to fulfill, they are willing to overlook them if applicants are well enough qualified. Don’t dwell on what you can’t change. At this point, all you can do is focus on your essays.

Edit: I am an Asian from the northeast (obviously) at a very competitive high school with less than stellar stats. It’s very possible.