Do any of you guys think that Ivy committees talk to each other?

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<p>So do you guys think that these adcoms discuss applicants for whatever purpose such as protecting yield rates?</p>

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<p>Definitely! If there are any schools that talk to each other, I would expect them to be the Ivy Leagues, because they are already connected with each other in a deep way.</p>

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<p>The answer is NO. Ask the Princeton admissions officer who hacked into some students’ Yale accounts and was subsequently fired immediately.</p>

<p>The suspicion lingers because the schools vie for the same subgroup of students and have similar admissions criteria and the general lack of info held by the public and that the Ivies + MIT used to collude regarding FinAid offers – which was successfully challenged and halted by the Justice Dept in 1991.</p>

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<p>Oh, some schools talk to each other because I know a girl who applied ED at two different schools and one of the schools sent her a letter rescinding her application because they knew she applied at the other school ED. The schools were in two different states.</p>

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<p>The ED “cloud” of applicants is a curious exception… granted.</p>

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<p>…Why would anyone apply to two schools ED? If she had gotten into both, that would have been a pickle to say the least.</p>

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<p>The answer to this question is No. They USED TO do this frequently and they recently got exposed. It was a pretty large national story.</p>

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<p>Of course they do. It’s in everyone’s best interest (except yours)</p>

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<p>“of course they do” they value their schools’ measley yield rate so much that they are willing to violate Justice Dept rulings and they just boldly lie to the public to maintain a vaneer of honesty and aptitude.</p>

<p>Nah, I don’t think so.</p>

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<p>I’d say no because they all have pretty good yields, but more importantly, they are looking at SO many applications – if they are going to choose ~2-5k students, I doubt they’ll ask all their Ivy League buddies about all those students just to possibly protect yield.</p>

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<p>I hope not! Wouldn’t surprise me though. you wouldn’t want a Harvard kid getting into Yale, right? Or Cornell to Columbia?</p>