Son applied early to Brown and was deferred. He has applied to a handful of other Ivy’s regular admission but all of the schools he applied to have accepted students from his school early decision. Will they take more than one?? Thanks
Yes.
Or no. The answer is really “it depends.” There is no min/max/quota, so, having already accepted one students, they can select another (or more than one). Alternatively, they can select no additional ones.
What they will do is unknown at this point.
Kids are considered as part of pools, but it’s broader geographic area than his school – more likely the metro area or even state, depending where you are.
In this example, an individual secondary school sent 34 students to a single Ivy over the most recent three years: https://www.lawrenceville.org/page/academics/college-counseling.
Do you have access to Naviance? That will give you the clearest picture of how many kids from your school apply and are accepted to a school.
Our local public sends multiple students to top schools (including ivies) every year. But the individual school’s past history will be best indicator.
if it’s a public school my guess is no
@anon145 Your guess is likely wrong.
Go on Naviance for your school. As much as I loath that site, it will at least tell you if more than one student has been admitted to a school in the past.
@walterminn My son went to a large public high school ~2,600 kids. He got into Yale EA. Two other students in his HS were accepted RD. If my memory serves me correctly, they did not apply to Yale EA.
There are no quotas. The answer can change from year-to-year. If you’re from an elite boarding or prep school, then yes, chances are the ivies will take multiple students from your school each year. For the average high school, public or private, the accepted number from that school can change from year to year. Anecdotal stories are great for offering hope, but in the grand scheme, nothing is certain unless the applicant’s parents donate a building.
2,600 is huge. Not saying they should not take more than 1 but for the typical public high school 1,000 -1,800 kids the probability of more than one to the same Ivy is near zero. And of course there are elite private schools in the northeast where 5 kids in a class will go to Harvard. Per naviance our whole public high school that is ranked in the state (1,600 kids) gets ~3 kids a year total into an Ivy league and disproportionately (based on school demographics) tend to be URM.
My kid’s HS class of 50 people had 2 go to Dartmouth. It happens.
local HS here often has a dozen going to a local ivy.
Super expensive private school, at which the large majority of kids are legacies, kids of the rich and powerful, etc. I’m pretty sure that, rather than limiting the number of kids from this school, Ivies and such have places reserved for students of this school. That being said, the kids there are probably also the smartest of the kids of this socioeconomic class. From about 200 students, 5 in MIT and 11 in UMichigan are pretty good. However, those numbers give an idea of the acceptance rates that you would expect for these kids to places like the Ivies or UC based on the quality of their application. So, it’s most likely that at least 25 of the 34 students who went to Princeton would not have been accepted based only on their stats and ECs but are either legacies or kids of very rich or famous people.
PS. I’m sure that almost every single one of those kids who go to Princeton and other top schools based on legacy or other family connections, and then get very well paying jobs, will always be sure that they succeeded entirely because of their own hard work and talents, and that other people have less money because they’re either not as smart or are lazy…
By way of example, Phillips Exeter Academy placed 27 in Harvard from classes of '15, '16, and 17. they took 20 from Brown, Columbia 22, Cornell University 16, Dartmouth 19, Princeton 18, U of PA 12, and 31 to Yale.
There are a number of very strong secondary schools that place multiple students. Many of these schools require examination for admission from students within their district. (e.g., Bronx High School of Science). Others are well established private schools which also require admission exams. Some of these better endowed private schools do offer FA (e.g., Phillips Exeter and Phillips Andover Academies).
I guess the short answer is yes, they do not have a rule against it, but not very often.
My kids’ public has around 2000 students and Ivy and other top colleges take more than one every year. Highest I’ve seen is 2 Ivies each enrolling 10+ (expect more were accepted) in a given year.
If your student has whatever it is they want, I doubt it matters who else was accepted.
Yes, absolutely you can have more than one applicant accepted. I agree with the posters who recommended checking Naviance to see your school’s historic trends.
I agree that Naviance is a good source, but results can vary a lot from year to year.
For example, from our local, highly rated public high school, 2 students were accepted to Princeton last year, while this year 6 were accepted just in SCEA, with 3 of those being slotted athletic recruits. Many people were speculating that non-athletes had no chance this year (as everyone knew 3 kids had already committed), but these results demonstrate that non-athletes are evaluated in a different pool than the slotted athletes. One of the non-athletes is a legacy, but several legacies, including one double legacy (both parents), were deferred. Will be interesting to see what happens in the RD round.
hey @lostaccount @intparent do your schools rank? In NC public high schools are required to rank each student. I wonder if that is part of it? Although 30-40 kids get perfect transcripts I wonder if the ranking kills students not in the Top 10 who get superhigh test scores…