Programs accept multiple students from a school?

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[jquitt]

I couldn't really find an answer on this forum but does anybody know the general trend for how many students a program would accept from a specific school? I know it is a broad question and can vary by many programs but my own dream school says they do not take any preference as to where you go to school. With this in mind, they would have to only still take 1 or 2 from a school with an entering program class of about 40, right? However, at my current undergraduate school, I have about 9 or 10 class mates who are all applying and hoping to get accepted into my dream school. A majority, if not all, have stated their stats are well over the averages for acceptance, GRE total >310, cum and pre req gpa ~3.8, good letters, etc. so what could or would happen if this is the case, I find it would be hard to believe that a program's entering class would be 1/3 from a specific school. I know it's speculation, I'm just nervous haha.

Not really sure of the trend. Is your dream school public or private? If its private than the student body will probably be made up of people from all kinds of schools just because these schools take a lot of out of state kids. If its public then I'd imagine the trend would be more in state students; in which case its highly likely that they would accept multiple students from the same in state school I guess?

I wouldn't worry too much about this for what it's worth. This shouldn't play into their decision ethically, but you could always ask them if its a major concern. I think you'll be just fine!

 

[starrsgirl]

Interesting question. I don't think schools place limits per school. But I think what will happen is about 3 of you will get accepted of this pool of classmates. No matter what people say, you don't know their actual application. Someone probably has a C in A&P, someone else will spend no time on an essay, someone else is saying their GRE is a few points higher than it really is.

 

[Watson27]

I have never heard of a school rejecting a good applicant because they already accepted multiple students from the same institution. I'm obviously not an adcom member, but that would be the dumbest thing ever. Don't fool yourself into thinking you are competing against the 10 other students from your school - you are competing against the 200-1000 applicants from across the country. Even if you think all the students from your school stack up pretty evenly, I'm sure they do not. Sure, GPA and GRE scores make up a significant part of the application, but there are the qualitative parts like essay and LORs that are very different and can make or break an applicant. It's the difference between having a good of ok essay, and an essay that knocks their socks off.

The only two occasions that I know of where schools care about your undergrad institution are 1. Seeing if you took the pre-reqs at a community college or a university (some schools care, others don't) and 2. If you went to their institution for undergrad. There are schools that will add a few points to their own student's applications, or put them at the top of the pile.

 

[Romazicon]

I couldn't really find an answer on this forum but does anybody know the general trend for how many students a program would accept from a specific school? I know it is a broad question and can vary by many programs but my own dream school says they do not take any preference as to where you go to school. With this in mind, they would have to only still take 1 or 2 from a school with an entering program class of about 40, right? However, at my current undergraduate school, I have about 9 or 10 class mates who are all applying and hoping to get accepted into my dream school. A majority, if not all, have stated their stats are well over the averages for acceptance, GRE total >310, cum and pre req gpa ~3.8, good letters, etc. so what could or would happen if this is the case, I find it would be hard to believe that a program's entering class would be 1/3 from a specific school. I know it's speculation, I'm just nervous haha.

We have already 6 applicants who got accepted to my dream school. At the point that I had an interview, 4 had already been accepted so that scared me, naturally. Fortunately, they wanted me as well as another person. This program accepts around 40..so if anything, that's 15% coming from one university.

 

[DesertPT]

I agree with Watson27...I have never heard of this mattering at all.