<p>Are you looking at top LACs too, like Amherst and Williams?</p>
<p>Top LACs, Stanford, UofC and Duke are some other schools I’ll probably end up applying to. Although LAC student body sizes are just a tad small for my taste.</p>
<p>^If LAC sizes are slightly too small for your taste, then you probably won’t like Dartmouth very much either.</p>
<p>i know a girl who applied to all 8 and got in to 6 of them and waitlisted from 2</p>
<p>I know a handful of fellow classmates who were admitted to all three of the Unholy Trinity, but it’s unheard of to apply to all eight of the Ivy League schools because it’s foolish to apply to a school that one would not be comfortable attending. </p>
<p>Considering the different campus locations, aesthetics, and cultures that pervade the Ivy League, it’s unlikely that all eight would appear appealing in the eyes of competitive and sensible applicants.</p>
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It seems that some applicants are willing to overlook the major, glaring differences between certain Ivy League schools and apply to all of them in hopes of upping their chances of attending any Ivy (and who cares which one, right?)…</p>
<p>Stupid, stupid, stupid…</p>
<p>“I’m applying to all 8.” OMG there are only 8?! Duke lied to me. I want my application fee back.</p>
<p>^^LOL^^ That was kudzu you saw at Duke, not Ivy! ;)</p>
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<p>Don’t take my statements out of context. I applied to 7 Ivy League schools, and 4 of them were because I received fee waivers from a program. I really had no preferences in terms of location or environment so fit wasn’t an issue, not that I was great fits at all of them. Isn’t nearly every top-notch student a fit at an Ivy League?</p>
<p>Furthermore, I told people to ignore prestige when choosing schools and I stand by that. I used waivers on Ivy League schools because they have excellent academic opportunities - not because of the brand name. </p>
<p>The second part of your statement is just wrong. I am an advocate of the apply to many schools theory because for middle class people you need to keep your options open. Once you’ve been accepted, THEN decided based on fit and ignore prestige. If you get accepted to Penn and Princeton but love Penn and only kinda like Princeton, then go to Penn. You’ll be happier and better off in the long run.</p>
<p>Please don’t twist my statement around. Your ignorance is unappreciated.</p>
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Sensible applicants realize that it is much better to determine fit from a list of colleges you have actually been accepted to.</p>
<p>I think the term of fit is a little bit overrated anyway. Some people don’t really don’t have a preference for location, and there’s always bound to be people you like (and dislike) at whatever school you choose.</p>
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Wouldn’t more sensible applicants see that they could save money and time by finding schools that fit them before applying and parsing their potential list accordingly, rather than applying to a whole host of schools, many of which they come to realize they wouldn’t really like to attend?</p>
<p>No I see Anomoaly’s point its a good one too. Whats the point of finding a perfect fit to only find out you got rejected by it? Find schools that you generally like and after you get accepted go into more detail and specifics.
Now there is another side to it though. @chaosakita. People say they dont have preferences, just because they want to go to a good school. Look through these forums on this site and count how many ended up depressed and hated the campus and transferred out of the school.</p>
<p>After reading through all the comments just to find out no one posted about being accepted to ALL the Ivys.</p>
<p>Lol, the petty banter and defensive comments were amusing though.</p>
<p>I <3 CC :D</p>
<p>^Yeah I’m still curious if anyone did get accepted to all of them</p>
<p>^As sacrilegious as it might be to have applied to all of them haha</p>
<p>@ jgraider & mirrorimage If you guys indeed read through every post in this thread as carefully as you claimed, you would have noticed that in post #29 I mentioned that Anonymous93 got accepted to all of the Ivies.</p>
<p>there was an article in the Washington Post yesterday which profiled a student from a local high school. he applied early to Stanford, but got rejected. his rejection made him a little nervous about his chances for other schools, so he ended up applying to 12 more: all 8 ivies, MIT, WashU, UMD, and i think a music school. he got accepted to all 12.</p>
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Obviously, because then said sensible applicant is going to have a great time once his or her “fit” school rejects him or her.</p>
<p>Knowing how people like to exaggerate their own accomplishments, I’d guess a whole bunch of the people who claim they got into all 8 are not telling the truth. Also, there are probably lots of people who got rejected by all 8 who would never admit it.</p>