<p>It was a joke aimed at Calculus</p>
<p>Whoamg, this girl was just a "normal" girl--i.e. not a URM, no super achievements (like a Nobel Prize or something...)?</p>
<p>I doubt the existence of any such "agreement", partially because of my own experiences (accepted at H, P, S, and M; waitlisted at Y), and partially because economics holds that it's fairly difficult for groups to conspire and form a cartel...because it's simply too appealing for any party to deviate from the rules of the cartel for it's own advantage.</p>
<p>Okay, so I was flaunting what I learned in Economics this semester, but think about it. If the "elites" came and "shared" the good students, what would prevent, say, Stanford, from not taking one of the students who was assigned to Yale if Stanford wanted him badly enough and thought it could get him? It's a competition on their end too.</p>
<p>Also, any such agreement would probably violate federal antitrust laws (yes, this counts) and given that the Feds were once investigating to see whether or not there was such a finAid agreement within the elites, I doubt any smart university would play this game.</p>
<p>umm, the "Conspiracy.Conspiracy." at the end was my take on dry humor guys:) my sis just mentioned that so i thought i'd state it; i do believe if the admissions officers wanted a candidate they would admitt them regardless of were else they would be admitted, but i'm sure they have friends they talk to in admissions in other colleges but they don't conspire against or for applicants, i mean there are over 12 thousand people applying RD to some of these schools-it would be impossible. plus some guy at questbridge said that some of these people will really be reading apps for 18 hours in a day....i garantee the time will come that some will be too tired to care.</p>
<p>Haha I don't know what I thought of this but I can just see Ivy League AOs doing it like the NBA draft or something. The worst school gets to pick first and picks some like Olympic gymnast who also won the Nobel Peace Prize at age 11 who also was the first person to SOMEHOW score a 2500 on her SAT (without prep, obviously). And then when you get down to the 8th pick, the best school (Princeton), they just draft normal amazing people like us.</p>
<p>And, I'm...kidding, by the way. I know they don't ACTUALLY do this.</p>
<p>they dont?? =O</p>
<p>As the 3rd pick in the 2006 Ivy League Draft, Princeton selects John Smith from Phillips Exeter Academy.</p>
<p>Hahaha. See, that would be amusing. And then the person who is not actually there would walk up on the imaginary stage and accept the imaginary hat with the college logo on it, just like at the actual draft.</p>
<p>@jon: Ms. HYPSM was an ORM, but had a good SAT score, probably 2400 SAT subjects, excelled in all classes.</p>
<p>Ms. HYPSM...
Who wouldn't want that title?
Also, I will admit that I took me about a billion posts before I figured out what that even meant. Luckily I got it now.</p>