Will schools hold your decisions against younger siblings?

MWolf
Sat, 30 Mar 2019 21:33:24 +0000

There are a lot of applicants, and a lot of accepted students. It would be extremely rare for an admissions person to remember one person of thousands, and then make that connection when a sibling applies. That’s even assuming that the same person will be looking at the applications.

They remember schools, because that’s important for them when they want to optimize yield, so they probably keep lists. But to try and list every one of the tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of kids who are accepted and turn them down over the years on the off chance that one of them will have siblings who will apply, and then to look through the applications and try to decide whether the person is a sibling of somebody who rejected them? Too much time and effort for what would only be simple vindictiveness.