<p>so does Rice! i remember being surprised by that on their application.</p>
<p>lol what if you were quintuplets or something crazy like that and you were all outstanding?</p>
<p>i know of two sets of twins at dartmouth, a set of twins at harvard, and another set cornell. it's not as impossible as you might think it is...</p>
<p>I'm a twin, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't helpful in admissions.</p>
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<p>I knew a few sets of twins at MIT. And plenty of families with multiple siblings, or even all the siblings, at the school. It's really not that far-fetched - if one sibling is really good at math and science, it stands to reason that the others might be too, for both nature and nurture reasons.</p>
<p>yeah i know some twins at harvard.</p>
<p>But wouldn't having two of the same at a college decrease diversity? XD...</p>
<p>I'm glad to see a thread on twins because I looked earlier and couldn't find much on the topic. I have twins, a boy and a girl, who applied to colleges this year. They weren't necessarily looking to go to the same place but they decided if they were both interested in a school they would both apply. Of the schools they both applied, both were rejected at one reach school, and both were waitlisted at two competitive schools which happened to be their top choices. We worry that they will have less chance of getting off either waitlist because the admissions committees won't want to ask only one of them and it's doubtful they'd have two spaces. Their stats are quite similar although they are very different people. I did read on one thread (after it was too late for us to use this strategy) that if one twin applies early decision and gets in, it is likely the other twin will be admitted regular decision if both have similar stats since it would be hard for the AC to deny the second twin. I'm not sure, it's really hard to know, but my guess is that it doesn't help being a twin.</p>
<p>OK, I'm an identical twin.</p>
<p>I don't know if it helped us at all, but every school we applied to rejected, waitlisted, or accepted us together, guess they didn't want to make it a tough choice for twins who want to go together.</p>
<p>The Dean says it hurts, but I'm not sure.</p>
<p>5 accepted
4 waitlist
1 deny</p>
<p>Again, those results applied to both of us.</p>
<p>Also, if your twin has really good grades you can kill him and steal his identity.</p>
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<p>I am a quadruplet (as stated previously). Every one of us gets good grades. </p>
<p>Ex: My sister is salutatorian, I am ranked 13/600, my two brothers somewhere around 30/600.</p>
<p>We are all involved in sports, band, and clubs.</p>
<p>We were all accepted to UC Berkeley. The two of us who applied to Stanford were wait listed, and then rejected.</p>
<p>With the waitlist I couldn't help but wonder if we were waitlisted in the first place because we were quadruplets, and it would add to diversity. Or because they didn't want to accept one without the other. And then I wondered if we all got into UC Berkeley because they wanted to say "WE ACCEPTED QUADRUPLETS". </p>
<p>Any thoughts?</p>
<p>i thought colleges payed a little bit of attention to family dynamics. so if two similarly-qualified twins apply to the same school, they will most likely get the same verdict. otherwise, it would be hard to justify.</p>
<p>accoring to cornell their "sensative" about rejecting two twins. The admissions counsler when i was there stated they wouldnt necesarily reject one twin and not the other if they were both academically similar so yes it can help.</p>
<p>I know a pair of twins that both got into Yale and Stanford.</p>
<p>Yale accepted quadruplets recently.</p>
<p>LOL omg so my teacher told me a story about how his friend and his twin got separated at birth and they didn't know about each other until they ended up at the SAME university and they thought that it was weird that people they didn't know came up to talk to them and then they found out :D</p>
<p>i was applying for singapore scholarship few years ago.
when they found out that i am twin (and both of us were applying), they constantly kept asking about "us" being twins,,and what if only one of us got accepted.. seriously,,it was really annoying,,like they thought we are "one" unseperable persons! and for everything same that we did,,the admission people always asked like,,o,,why both of you do the same things?why?why? gee..those were school projects that we accidentally had same topics..(since we went to a same school and had the same teachers?)</p>
<p>besides having extra best friend in every ups&downs..and little plus side in networking..
being twin has nothing beneficial at all..especially for school budget..</p>
<p>haha i love clam chowder...! you know..the food</p>
<p>I know a pair of twins who both got into the same university--and it was one of the top 20 universities, too.</p>
<p>I don't know if being a twin necessarily affects your admissions, but I'm thinking it doesn't hurt... :).</p>
<p>There was a set of quadruplets accepted to MIT this year :P</p>
<p>My twin nieces were accepted at MIT this year, with almot full aid. They're internationals (Canadian).
One of them went to the MIT summer program, the other stayed home for the summer. Their interviews were conducted outside of the USA, and lasted about 1 hour each.
However, they were waitlisted at all the other top schools (eg. Columbia, Duke).
Who can figure?</p>