<p>I'm just curious. I want to apply to 3-6 Ivies, but I'm not sure if applying to these many prestigious colleges would be a good idea. Is it okay?</p>
<p>Why wouldn’t it be ok? If paying application fees and spending the time needed to fill out each application aren’t issues, apply to as many as you want.</p>
<p>lol, have some confidence.</p>
<p>if you’re aiming Ivy league, you’re going to have to believe in yourself a lot more than that. It’s all up to you; if you find enough time and energy, apply to as many schools as finances will allow.</p>
<p>However, I would strongly recommend you only apply to schools you would attend. Research and visit if you can.</p>
<p>also, getting a large amount of rejections (which your bound to get a few if not a lot) might damage your self esteem and soul haha</p>
<p>^^haha watch him not apply now</p>
<p>I am applying to all except for Cornell. Binomial theorem…assuming my chance of getting in isn’t 0 (I doubt it), then the more I apply to, the higher my odds of getting into one.</p>
<p>^This only applies to people who barely fail to make it in because there isn’t enough room.</p>
<p>well yea but you getting into these schools isn’t a random process, or something.</p>
<p>Might as well. Admissions at a lot of these top colleges are luck-dependent, unfortunately. A senior last year from my school was rejected from Columbia ED and then got into Princeton… yeah, ok.</p>
<p>I’m applying to 4-5 of them. If you do your research on each school, every Ivy has a different “character” and you can’t be a match to every school (ahem, Columbia’s Core versus Brown’s Open Curric…it’s hard to show equal passion for both). Bull*****ing passion isn’t so easy. I don’t think it’s a good idea to apply to all Ivies. I would just figure out the schools I can truly envision myself attending and loving…and apply to those.</p>
<p>chenman333, you need to seriously understand what statistics is all about. And college admission isn’t based on statistics.</p>
<p>Anyone who is applying to all Ivies is doing it for the wrong reasons</p>
<p>i know someone, graduated last year, val, applied to all 8 ivies, and that is it… no safety, nada… only got into one and is there now</p>
<p>To second what some people have been saying, the Ivies are all very different from each other. Really research each school (and visit if you can) before deciding where to apply, and then only apply to places you really want to go to (for the right reasons).</p>
<p>But by all means, apply to as many schools as you can truly see yourself being happy at. As long as you can afford the app fee and have the time, you have nothing to lose.</p>
<p>“Anyone who is applying to all Ivies is doing it for the wrong reasons”</p>
<p>^ My thoughts exactly. How can one person seriously apply to Columbia and Dartmouth, for example, and be thinking they’ll be happy at either place?</p>
<p>Well 2 Ivies isn’t extreme (Columbia is renowned for engineering, Dartmouth’s D-Plan offers students a lot of flexibility in studying languages abroad, and a student could be interested in both fields).</p>
<p>All 8 is another story.</p>