<p>I've been wondering for a while. If a student were to apply to all 8 Ivy League Schools (Princeton, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, UPenn) regular decision, would the fact that he is applying to all 8 at the same time hurt any of his individual chances at each of the schools? Is there an underground network that the schools share to weed out these machine gun applicants, or does this have no effect?</p>
<p>No impact.</p>
<p>The answer is we’ll never know.</p>
<p>But it’s highly unlikely. I don’t think it’ll hurt their chances, but seriously, the schools are completely different, I really don’t see how you could like all 8 of them, other than just for the “ivy league” name, which frankly is quite silly because the words don’t really mean much…</p>
<p>Very true. Unfortunately they all have strong political science programs (except for maybe Penn, but Wharton appeals too).</p>
<p>bump 10 char</p>
<p>Each ivy is different from all the rest. While the names and the prestige might attract you to all of them, they are all very different in their strengths, their culture, and their student bodies. It would be very difficult for a student to be a good “fit” for all of them.</p>
<p>According to a friend of mine, her brother, who just graduated Cornell, had a friend who applied to all the Ivies and was rejected by all of them “because of that”. According to her, all the schools talk and compare applicants. I find this impossible to believe though because these institutions recieve +20,000 applications every year. There’s no way that there’s some sort of database where schools compare who’s applied where.</p>
<p>It’s simple… all the names are probably in a database they have on the computer, they can just all put them together and compare.</p>
<p>but I don’t think you can get rejected just because you applied to all</p>