<p>My GC said that applying to more than one ivy league school is bad becuase they compare rosters of who is applying and if you apply to more than one they are less likely to take you. Is this true?</p>
<p>Um... I don't think so?</p>
<p>ryan
your GC doesnt know what he is talking about.</p>
<p>I asked a Columbia admissions counselor - face to face - and she told me that they did not know where else you applied.</p>
<p>There was also a scandal a few years back about comparing fin aid packages such that I would guess that they are pretty careful about things that look like collusion.</p>
<p>beprepn</p>
<p>There are many students that gain acceptance to multiple ivies---makes that GC's idea extremely unlikely. However, schools do share lists of ED applicants as a way of making sure kids don't violate those rules.</p>
<p>Many of my friends here who applied to more than one Ivy got into all of them.</p>
<p>I think the wisdom here is not to apply to all the ivies. Because in that case the motive becomes incredibly obvious.</p>
<p>if you are good enough to get into one ivy, youre probobly good enough to get into all of them. i know a guy who got excepted at every elite school except harvard. hes at yale now.</p>
<p>Not true. Each Ivy is at a different level and each Ivy is looking for different things. I know people at my school who got into Cornell ED and wouldn't have the slimmest chance at any other Ivy.There are people who get rejected EA from Yale and end up at Harvard. It's totally unpredictable.</p>
<p>wow, i hope i have what harvard is looking for, because they definetly have what im looking for.</p>
<p>If you find Harvard to be a good match for you, then you're quite probably a good match for Harvard, so make sure that comes across in your application ;)</p>
<p>My son was accepted to all the colleges he applied to MIT,Princeton,Yale,Brown and Dartmouth which was a surprise seeing how he didn’t sent in the application fee.Chose MIT.</p>
<p>Your guidance counselor is giving you wrong headed advice – and I’m not sure why. Does your school limit the number of colleges a student can apply to? Do you attend a private school that “pushes” for certain students at select ivies, but doesn’t make that same “push” for those student’s they decide do not merit it?</p>
<p>Many students apply to multiple ivies to increase their chances of getting into at least one of them. I’ve said this before in other threads, but my son and daughter both applied to HYP. My daughter was rejected from Yale and Princeton, but accepted to Harvard. My son was rejected from Harvard (even though his sister attends the school) but accepted to Yale and Princeton. What did Harvard see in my daughter that Yale and Princeton did not? What did Harvard not like in my son’s application that Yale and Princeton thought was worthwhile? Who knows? But, by applying to all three schools, each of them increased their chances of admission to at least one of them. It’s called the scatter-shot approach to admissions . . . and many, many students and their GC’s use that same approach.</p>
<p>FWIW: Many years ago (15-20 years) the ivies did share information about which students they were going to accept, but a federal lawsuit quickly stopped that.</p>