<p>I think I read somewhere that if you apply to all the ivies they will find out about it or something and look down upon it?</p>
<p>this is not true right?</p>
<p>has anyone here applied to all the ivies?</p>
<p>not true..if i remember correctly, they made an agreement that says they will not share information about applicants..</p>
<p>No, Ivies can and do share information, particularly about early applicants. </p>
<p>I'm sure that more than a few people apply to most or all of the Ivies. I don't think it would necessarily be frowned on, but it seems to me a rather silly thing to do. Other schools are much more similar to some of the Ivies than other Ivies are.</p>
<p>i did to all exept yale.</p>
<p>seems like somebody who does that would have to be a pretty under-informed applicant.</p>
<p>Most of the ivies are very different from one another.</p>
<p>so if one applies to all ivies they will know about it?</p>
<p>yes, applying to all the Ivies CAN and WILL hurt you. It's unreasonable -- you want to go to a college where you will fit into the environment. Schools like Columbia and Dartmouth are in completely different settings and are NOT suitable for the same person. Anyone who applies to all the Ivies are simply looking for the name -- something that the Ivies can find out about and WILL be offended by.</p>
<p>^^
Absolutely untrue. Last weekend I met a kid who applied to all the Ivies (except Brown), MIT, and Caltech and was accepted at all of those schools except MIT, which is not an Ivy, and he was actually waitlisted there. He's now at Princeton. Granted though, he sorta had the right to do so considering he made a perfect 1600 as a sophomore and got the highest GPA ever recorded at his high school. But, I highly doubt it will count against you in and of itself. However, the things that seem to come with applying to all Ivies, like not knowing the schools individually will hurt you.</p>
<p>As long as you explain why you are applying to a certain school, I'm sure you are fine. I doubt admissions officers will check.</p>
<p>Regardless, it doesn't change the fact that only a prestige-whore would do such a thing; and that's not to say that looking for a prestigious school is bad. However, the Ivies are all so different from one another, that applying to all would mean you're looking only at prestige and nothing else, which is stupid.</p>
<p>Schools can not share information about applicants (by law) ... they can share info about accepted students (so they may know about ED students).</p>
<p>FYI - I also agree someone having all 8 schools on their application list dos not give an initial impression of a well formed school list.</p>
<p>Each Ivy is so different. If you apply to all (even if you're a super applicant), you're being a prestige-whore and are not going by fit.</p>
<p>I remember reading about a case where the Yale adcoms hacked into the Princeton application database.</p>
<p>Or was it the other way around?</p>
<p>the COFHE agreement only covers fin/aid information. they can certainly ask where else you've applied and some of them do ask right on the application.</p>
<p>or probably they're just adaptable.</p>
<p>eternitygoddess, I remember reading something along those lines as well...</p>
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the COFHE agreement only covers fin/aid information. they can certainly ask where else you've applied and some of them do ask right on the application
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They certainly can ask however I'm pretty sure they can not proactively send the info to each other ... which is what they used to do back in the day.</p>
<p>I know someone who applied to all ivies last year... got rejected from all of them except for cornell, what a waste of money and time.</p>
<p>i doubt admissions officers would take the time to check every single applicant on this issue...and granted the college frenzy, it seems to be something that is not uncommmon</p>
<p>I can see why someone would want to apply to all the Ivies. People have different aspects of their personalities, and each Ivy might appeal to a different one. For example, I love NYC and Columbia's oasis-like campus, so I'm applying there. I really like the Huntsman Program at Penn, so I'm applying there. I like the campuses and all the academic opportunities at HYP, so I'm applying there. I like the academic freedom at Brown, so I'm applying there. I, personally, am not applying to Cornell (too rural/too cold/too big) or Dartmouth (too rural/too cold), but I can easily see how someone else might like these schools for their own characteristics too. I mean... why would anyone apply to ANY 8 schools. Just because these have a name doesn't mean that people are applying because of it. :)</p>