I was just thinking yesterday: has there ever been anybody who has applied to every Ivy and gotten in?
<p>My D did 6 out of 6 this year. Didn't apply to Penn or Cornell.</p>
<p>I bet there's been SOMEBODY, but I'd also guess it's hard...</p>
<p>I have a friend who got into Harvard and Yale but not Columbia. At her Columbia interview, after her interviewer had gushed about what a good fit she would be for Columbia, she asked if my friend had gotten in anywhere early, and my friend had to reply that she'd gotten into Yale... lo and behold, she was eventually waitlisted at Columbia.</p>
<p>The funny thing is that she didn't want to go to Yale (her parents had made her apply there early, 'cause Columbia is ED) and would much rather have gone to Columbia.</p>
<p>entropic, would there have been any way for columbia to find out if she was lying if she had said "no, i haven't"?</p>
<p>My friend did not apply to Brown (parental objection), but got into all other ivies and MIT.</p>
<p>entropic: The interviewer's input probably wasn't a deciding factor. She shouldn't read too much into that.</p>
<p>I question why anyone would apply to all of the Ivies. What could Cornell and Brown have in common that somebody would apply to both?</p>
<p>easier question : who got rejected by ALL the ivys?</p>
<p>There was a girl at my local high school this last year who had 1590/1600 on her SAT's and she got into six of the Ivies. She was African American and the average SAT score for the high school is about 940. Some people are not only able to get into all other Ivies, but they are sent free plane tickets to visit each of the schools. A strong enough hook gets you to the top. If Lindsey Lohan decided to go back to school, she would get into all of the Ivies.</p>
<p>If you have a 10% chance of getting into each of eight schools, then the probability of getting into at least one of them is 57%.</p>
<p>why would someone apply to all the ivies? especially if they are able to get into HYP? waste of money...</p>
<p>anyways, i know a guy this year who was rejected by 7 of the 8 ivies... he's going to Cornell</p>
<p>There a certain amount of blind luck in being accepted. If a person's goal is to go to an Ivy no matter which one, then applying more times would increase the odds. Ideally it could be like a raffle where you can apply to each school more than once. You know, apply to Harvard 50 times and hope that you get thru at least once.</p>
<p>What I don't understand is someone having the goal of going to any Ivy no matter which one. The Ivy League was started as a football league and the colleges don't really have very much in common. It seems that people would care more about the type of school as opposed to just the brand-name.</p>
<p>Bandit, what was your daughter's hook?</p>
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well, someone interested in Architecture might end up applying to both Brown and Cornell ... but they wouldn't pick a bunch of the other IVYies. Your point is well taken ... it's hard to come up with criteria that would lead to applying all 8 IVYies other than "IVY" of "highly selective schools" ... virtually any selection criteria would drop a few IVYies from a HS students list of schools to which they would apply.</p>
<p>Grades, course selection, test scores, leadership, Wyoming</p>
<p>haha, cornell and brown are my top two choices...
-They're both strong in social sciences
-Both have very cohesive environments, with amazing community atmospheres
-Both have a wide array of student interests and are difficult to generalize about the student types (the Brown=liberal stereotype is WAY overblown)
-I consider Ithaca and Providence both fun places to go to college, although Providence is obviously more urban/metropolitan</p>
<p>I want to keep their options open, so I'm applying to a bunch of different schools, and I plan on applying to four of the Ivies (Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Penn) because I want to go to a well known, midsize university in the northeast. It doesn't matter though, because I'll probably get rejected from all of them and end up at Syracuse hehe...</p>
<p>Concerning my Cornell and Brown comparsion: The number one rule when making sweeping generalizations is not to get too specific.</p>
<p>Actually I meant to say Columbia and Brown to contrast NY with Providence, but I suppose Columbia and Brown have things in common too. My sweeping generalization is that anyone applying to all eight Ivies must be blinded by the prestige factor and not care about anything else.</p>
<p>I guess I'll help clarify one of your points dufus3709:</p>
<p>Yeah, you can defend applying to several seemingly different Ivy League schools (ie. Dartmouth and Columbia), but one cannot justify applying to ALL eight with a specific criteria because they all have their little nuances that set them apart from each other on a case by case basis, until you've reached the extremes at which point these schools can be the exact opposite of one another.</p>
<p>but one cannot justify applying to ALL eight with a specific criteria</p>
<p>I think you mean criterion, and one can apply to each based on prestige as said criterion. Im not saying its an intelligent thing to do, but it sure is something I can see someone doing. Also, it's foolish to say that someone is "blinded by prestige"; people all have different reasons for applying to college, no better, no worse.</p>
<p>Does that mean that if I pick my wife solely on the basis of her breast size, then that is not a bad reason? :)</p>
<p>ah, singular, I spot it kk19131. I didn't know you cared so much. If only I could go back in time... =)</p>
<p>To dufus3709, I'm sure many men do that already... =/</p>