<p>Is it true that colleges (especially the Ivies) talk to each other regarding applicants, and, in terms of athletic recruitments, who they are look at?</p>
<p>In the past, there was some collusion amongst the Ivies +MIT regarding FA. However, they were successfully sued and barred from doing this. In the subsequent years, they've each come to operate well and rather smoothly even without any consulting w/each other. No, they don't share info w/each other about applicants, athletic or otherwise. They frankly don't have enough time given the deadlines...</p>
<h1>2 is correct ... it is considered restraint of trade if schools discuss applicants for admission or financial aid ... the idea is that it is to the students advantage if the schools do not know what other schools are thinking. I do not know how this ruling effects situations like the UC system ... can the various UC campuses communicate with each other or are they considered separate schools for admissions purposes?</h1>
<p>C'mon. Don't be naive. It still goes on between the Ivies. Even everywhere. Maybe to a lesser extent, but it hasn't totally stopped.</p>
<p>Greens: I can understand the former FA collusion (and its subsequent court ordered cessation). How would talking about top applicants and athletic recruits assist the schools now? Especially the HYP, those that have terrific yields w/o even blinking an eye? Why would they share any information?</p>
<p>Maybe I'm missing something but I can't fathom what the HYP admissions offices could gain.</p>
<p>I had dinner with a Penn admissions official who told me of how there was a student who applied to Penn under its (binding) Early Decision and was accepted. However, in the spring they stopped hearing from him at all. So they used Facebook and looked up his profile, which said "Harvard-bound!"</p>
<p>Oops. The kid had violated the rules of ED, having bound himself to Penn only to try and bail for Harvard.</p>
<p>Penn called the Harvard admissions office to inform them of this and Harvard promptly rescinded his offer of admission. Penn also rescinded its own offer of admission, and the guy wound up at Cornell.</p>
<p>So I wouldn't try pulling a fast one on colleges, at least not closely associated ones like the Ivies.</p>
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Penn called the Harvard admissions office to inform them of this and Harvard promptly rescinded his offer of admission. Penn also rescinded its own offer of admission, and the guy wound up at Cornell.
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If that's the downside risk, I don't think that's enough incentive for people to not do this. The story should end that he wound up at his local community college.</p>
<p>OK Green how do you know this. I understand why the schools would want to talk to each other ... the same reasons they did in the past still hold ... it helps them control yield and which students they will get as students. However, given the Ivyies have agreed to a legal agreement to not talk to each other about applicants ... why would they risk getting hammered legally and the bad publicity? Is it possibly/likely that am employee of a school has violated this agreement ... I would think the odds are 100% that sometime in the last 30 years words have passed between adcom folks that should not have. However, I find it hard to believe the school's administrations are explicitly or implicitly are Ok with any conversations at this time. YMMV of course.</p>
<p>Sharing lists of accepted ED students is a different topic ... those kids are no longer applicants but accepted students.</p>
<p>They also talk because they're peers and members of the same professional organizations. The admissions community isn't huge.</p>