<p>haha, as the title says, i'm wondering how many, if any, ppl apply to all the ivies.</p>
<p>and before you start, yeah i know there's more to life than getting in a prestigious ivy league school. but the thing is, i really want to go to the east coast, and it's been like a childhood dream to go to "an ivy".</p>
<p>let's say i have the stats to match them, even though i realize it takes a lot more than that, especially to get into hyp. but i would be fine with getting into even just one ivy.</p>
<p>so i really want to believe that if you have the stats to get into ivies, and decent extracurriculars that either show depth or wellroundedness, you will get into at least one of them, even if it's not hyp.</p>
<p>Only one kid did that at my school.
Got in Brown and Cornell. Rejected everywhere else.
That kid has no friends. Don't be that kid that applied to every ivy.</p>
<p>haha thanks for the reply smoke&mirrors. but if i got accepted to brown and cornell, i wouldn't care that i got rejected everywhere else, or that i had no friends, lol.</p>
<p>Have you visited them? I mean, they're all pretty different, and I doubt you'd actually like them all just because of their Ivy name. No need to take that advice, I'm just saying, so you don't get stuck at someplace you hate.</p>
<p>But otherwise, this is definitely a really interesting question, I'd like to hear more on it.</p>
<p>no actually, i've only seen columbia (which i definitely fell in love with).</p>
<p>but yeah i totally get what you mean. right now, other than the name, i know next to nothing about the different, unique aspects of each school.</p>
<p>i guess that's why i ask this question...even though i might sound trite, i don't want to pick between ivies until i know that they've picked me=)</p>
<p>^I suppose that's fine as long as you're willing to pay the application fees, lol. Hopefully you'll luck out and get picked by the schools that are your best fits anyway. It worked for me. :)</p>
<p>i applied to all 8 ivies, bc i thought every one of them was awesome, which is true. more importantly, i applied to all partially bc my counselor told me about the 'random' process of ivy admissions, meaning that many people get rejected one place but get into others. i was paranoid about this thought, so i applied to all. in the end, i got into 2 of 8, lol.</p>
<p>I never understand when someone says that they've always wanted to go to an ivy. What is it that you want, precisely? Excellent professors? Intelligent peers? Great resources? Prestige?</p>
<p>With the occasional exception of the latter, there are a LOT of schools that offer those things, with perhaps a little less snobbery than their ivy league peers. The University of Chicago, Washington University, Tufts, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Carleton, Pomona, and many, many other schools offer academic environments that are at LEAST comparable to many of the ivies. </p>
<p>Unless the ONLY thing motivating your college selection is a brand name, you would be incredibly foolish not to include some of these other schools on your list, particularly because they often have huge benefits some of the ivies lack, and because their admissions rates are historically higher because of all the people who believe that being labeled 'ivy league' somehow perpetually makes an institution better.</p>
<p>There are actually serious downsides to several of the ivies. Sure, Cornell has a great reputation, but would you really want to be stuck in Ithaca, NY--when you could be in the middle of Chicago, for example--for the next four years of your life? Furthermore, many of the ivy league schools aren't really devoted to undergraduates. I think many are great destinations for graduate school--but again, this is not on the basis of their commanding nebulous timeless reputations.</p>
<p>I know three or four people who have thought like you. One of them got into Dartmouth and Cornell; the others were rejected or waitlisted from everywhere and had their minds so stuck in a place that prohibited not attending an ivy that they couldn't understand that their lives weren't over.</p>
<p>Hey, apply to all of them if you want to, but don't apply ONLY to them, and don't get your heart set on any one of them, or even any of them. Do research and visit, and I feel certain you'll find yourself saying things like, "Well, [ivy league school] is pretty cool, but I think I'd rather go to...." and you'll fill in Vanderbilt, or Emery, or NYU, or a small liberal arts college, or the honors college at your flagship state university. You may not say this about each of the Ivies, but you probably will for some of them.</p>
<p>the thing i like most about ivy's is location. i just really want to get out of the hellhole i'm living in right now, but my parents won't let me go out of state unless it's a really good school. i am considering other schools of course, like u of chicago, northwestern, berkeley, wustl, georgetown, carnegie mellon, nyu, tufts, caltech, etc.....but i was just wondering how likely it would be that i might manage to make it into an ivy.</p>
<p>plus i need to narrow down the list of places i want to apply to. if i don't go for every single ivy b/c i realize it won't be worth it, that would be a lot easier on my sanity and pocket, lol.</p>
<p>Personally, I think that each of the Ivies is so different that anyone who applies to every single one must be a trophy hunter and nothing more.</p>
<p>^ agreed. The campuses are so different, even just from the urban ones. There are completely different vibes to each ivy.</p>
<p>one of my friends basically did this, as many ivies as the counselor would allow (I think 5?) + then MIT and other top-qual schools, solely for prestige. There wasn't a single unifying factor-it ranged from very rural to urban, small to large, having her intended major to not, etc, etc. I pretty much lost 95% of any respect I had for her. </p>
<p>By the way, she got rejected from EVERY top school, and she is going to her one and only safety. She had good SATs (i think 2200-2300 range, don't remember exactly), and had been accepted to a very prestigious writing camp for her major.</p>
<p>I have a friend that got rejected to everywhere else except Brown, one that got into Yale ED and rejected from Princeton/Stanford and 2 other ivies and another that got 6 waitlists and one rejection. </p>
<p>It's pretty darn risky, but I guess it doesn't hurt to try. Make sure though, that you don't get too cocky and make some realistic/safeties.</p>
<p>Wow, I'd have to say that "perceived prestige" is the ONLY shared characteristic of the Ivies. Dartmouth is rural and smallish. Harvard is urban and huge . . . Ok, I can come up with another: All East of the Mississippi. What's not to like about sunny Stanford? Even sunnier University of Arizona? The cherry blossoms are fabulous at the University of Washington this week and there you are in Microsoft's backyard (for those who might like the idea of gainful employment after college years).<br>
Somehow "Ivy is best" makes me think of my granny's Cadillac, a huge, gas guzzling behometh. To Granny, however, it was definately "the best."</p>