<p>Do ivy leagues or other top colleges exchange information about an applicant?
If I wanted to only state essential ECs that seems to matter at one school and then change ECs that I want to write down for another school,
would they know/compare my ECs and misinterpret that I may be lying or something like that?</p>
<p>bump…</p>
<p>no .</p>
<p>Well, they do chat with each other.</p>
<p>^you’re so smart</p>
<p>Sorry for my curt answer. Here’s some history for you:</p>
<p>Back in the 70s and 80s (perhaps earlier), the Ivies + MIT would confer about FA awards once accept lists were generated. They’d gather together and compare any cross-admits who applied for FA. Then, they would collude not to offer too disparate an offer to those kids – i.e. if a guy was accepted at Brown and Cornell and applied for FA, the offers from both schools would be fairly close. This was so that schools wouldn’t pull students from each other due to financial concerns – no bidding wars. </p>
<p>This was successfully challenged (maybe by the Dept of Justice) and the courts found that this was in fact illegal collusion. Now no data of any sort is shared and everyone has settled into trying to know where their applicants sit relative to their Ivy + MIT peer group.</p>