<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>So what. Maybe he didn't know he would get into Cornell, but thought he had a decent chance to get into one of the ivies.</p>
<p>I think most people could appreciate the different personalities of the ivies and be happy there.</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>No, but they ask on the application what other schools you are applying to.</p>
<p>^but you don't have to tell them all of them</p>
<p>I know of someone who did this last year. Applied to every Ivy except Brown, also Tufts, WUSTL, Georgetown, etc. Did ED at Penn but was deferred, then admitted in RD round. He was smart, but a jerk. I played baseball with the kid. I hope he is happy in an overcompetitive Wharton bubble. I hope to be working on Wall Street after my undergrad work too, but I want to go to a more well-rounded, less competitive school. Penn was the number one school on my list, but after visiting, it fell off my list completely. It's just annoying when someone applies to a lot of Ivies just to get that "Ivy name."</p>
<p>People apply to all eight Ivy League colleges every year. Every once in a while, someone gets admitted to all eight. More often, the applicant is denied admission by all eight, but probably the most common situation for a credible Ivy applicant is to get into one or two, but not all eight, of those colleges. </p>
<p>I have been to admission information sessions for Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn, Brown, and Cornell. (Yep, that's all eight Ivy League colleges. I have been to the campuses of the first four colleges I mentioned.) Each college is different. I don't think anyone in my family would find enough meaningful commonalities among them to apply to all eight of them, but they're all pretty good colleges and all worth a look. </p>
<p>If you apply to any Ivy League college, be sure to apply to a safety college. Indeed, be sure to apply to a sure-bet safety college no matter where else you are applying. Don't be disappointed in April. Lots of applicants get rejected by all of the top tier colleges they apply to. Applying to more doesn't increase your odds--first of all you have to be a competitive applicant. </p>
<p>After edit: No, to answer the OP's question, the eight Ivy League colleges don't care at all where else you apply. They all know that a lot of applicants apply to a lot of colleges in that echelon. IF you apply binding early decision (ED) to one Ivy, and later violate the ED agreement, you won't get into any Ivy. (That seems to be the conclusion after last year's reports on CC of students who violated their ED agreements.) But if you apply regular decision to all eight, nobody cares. Your application will be evaluated on its merits without regard to where else you applied.</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>What law?(not saying it isnt possible) Maybe publics, but i would think privates would have the rights since they are private sector, not public.</p>
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<p>Prove it by posting a link.</p>
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What law?(not saying it isnt possible) Maybe publics, but i would think privates would have the rights since they are private sector, not public
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The IVYies and a few other schools were sued for restraint of trade about 20 years ago ... the schools used to share applicant lists, expected decisions, and expected financial aid packages ... their position was that they did not want the price of attendence to drive students selection and they kept all the IVYies relatively similar in price so costs and financial aid moved in lock step. Some applicants sued that this was restraint of trade and the schools reached a settlement which included the agreement to not share info on specific applicants or specific financial packages ... the idea being that if schools consider each applicant without knowledge of what other schools are doing they are more likely to make their bast offer.</p>
<p>(They can still do things like professional conferences and share financial aid formulas and methodologies)</p>
<p>Yes, 3togo is correct that some previous practices of the Ivy League (and for this purpose MIT and some other colleges were also in the club) of coordinating financial aid offers to avoid "bidding wars" for students were the subject of legal action that ended the former practices. </p>
<p>See </p>
<p><a href="http://568group.org/%5B/url%5D">http://568group.org/</a> </p>
<p>and </p>
<p><a href="http://ivyplus.stanford.edu/practices.html%5B/url%5D">http://ivyplus.stanford.edu/practices.html</a> </p>
<p>and </p>
<p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/ivymitstanford/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/ivymitstanford/index.html</a> </p>
<p>for examples of cooperation among groups of colleges broader than just the Ivy League.</p>
<p>so, basically, if you get accepted ED, other ivies would know about it, but if you are just applying and are just yet an applicant, the other ivies won't know about it because they can't share info on applicants not yet accepted?</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>Well, if he had applied to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, and Flagship State University, where would he be now? This result suggests applying to more schools, not fewer.</p>