<p>So who applied to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, AND Columbia? And why did you do it?</p>
<p>This one international student applied to all these schools plus Duke, UChicago, Stanford, and 30 others, just to see where he could get the best financial aid package.</p>
<p>when? has he found out yet?</p>
<p>One of my friends applied to all but two...</p>
<p>why would any one.....</p>
<p>Schools like Dartmouth and Penn are very different.....
And all Ivies have similar policy for financial aid as well...thus cost shouldn't.....</p>
<p>Apparently he didn't read the fine print and didn't know the Ivy League policy of no merit aids.</p>
<p>Or may be he is just a name brand collector. You know, the type that buys only from LV and Channel.</p>
<p>"Or may be he is just a name brand collector. You know, the type that buys only from LV and Channel."</p>
<p>uhhh....i dont know very many guys that only buy things from LV and Channel...maybe its an east coast thing....
but true, sounds like a prestige whore who really doesnt care about anything except for the name.</p>
<p>I applied to all of them except colombia and princeton. I did this because i guess location and size dont matter to me but education is the most important factor and i think at these schools i will get the best education.</p>
<p>I applied to 4, but if I had the grades, I would have applied to 7. The only Ivy I would not have applied to is Dartmouth because after visiting it, I felt it was too isolated and too small. I felt almost the same way about Cornell, but my two best friends were students there at the time, so I went ahead with the application.</p>
<p>I can see why someone would apply to all 8 if their intent were to study a firled like Economics or Political Science. All 8 share many things in common.</p>
<p>I have a friend who was deferred EA from Harvard and is now applying to all the rest except Princeton and Dartmouth, though her mother wanted her to apply to all eight.</p>
<p>Many internationals apply to all 8.</p>
<p>There's a definition for this:
<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=prestige+whore%5B/url%5D">http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=prestige+whore</a></p>
<p>Prestige whores! How can yone possibly argue that both the urban feel of Columbia and the more remote feel of Cornell or Darmoth are both perfect fits for him/her!Or the size of cornell versus Dartmouth! Or the social climate of Princeton vs. Brown! He/she obviously didn't select on fit but instead on brandname. These people are ruining higher education in this country! Well, to an extent.</p>
<p>GUYS. its chaNel. one 'n'. nearly had a heart attack there.</p>
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<p>No, because you hate Dartmouth.</p>
<p>a girl from my school last year applied to all 8, hopkins, and university of maryland. i guess she had alot of confidence and wanted to see which ones she could get into, she was rejected from all but maryland. :(</p>
<p>applied to 4. I'm not a very picky person when it comes to environment, i can deal with a city or something more suburban. I'm not someone who thinks there is one type of fit for me in terms of area and type of programs. I will succeed wherever, and I think I'd enjoy most places. I'm also not sure about what I want to study, so I'm not aiming for a particular program. As long as there are students and great academics, and what's more, a highly ntellectual environment, i generally find myself liking a school.</p>
<p>hmm i heard that ivies talk about their applicants with each other, so they know if you already got into one ivy, so they won't offer you admission at their own school. i know someone with insane stats who got into most of the ivies she applied to except for one, which prob saw that she already had admission offers from the rest.</p>
<p>that's not true. they all want top-notch applicants. they don't reject you just because another school accepted you. that's just pointless...</p>
<p>They do talk to each other, but I do not think that a candidate applying to several or even all 8 will influence the AdComs decisions unless there are issues of ethics involved (especially regarding ED applicants). I applied to 4 and got into all 4. I have friends who applied to 5 or 6 Ivy League schools plus MIT and Stanford and got into all of them. I have never known anybody who got into all 8 though.</p>