<p>Do Ivies share applicant info and essays and what not with each other?</p>
<p>No they do not.</p>
<p>It’s illegal (anti trust) and violates privacy of applicants.</p>
<p>This would be terribly illegal.</p>
<p>They used to 40-50 years ago I think</p>
<p>I mean, seeing as they’re in direct competition with one another to get students to enroll, many of whom are ultimately admitted to more than one Ivy, they have little interest in sharing information.</p>
<p>The schools that have ED release the names of the people who were accepted ED don’t they?</p>
<p>Do colleges know the other schools to which you’re applying?</p>
<p>No they don’t (unless you tell them).</p>
<p>Nope. Unless a school like GW asks for your list of schools on their app (which they do).</p>
<p>Is it just a massive conspiracy theory that Harvard and Yale sometimes negotiate for different students? Like you take this one, we’ll take this one (to increase yield).</p>
<p>I’m not really being serious, but Admissions is kind of a secret, mysterious game.</p>
<p>Why does GW ask for the student’s list of colleges, out of curiosity?</p>
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I’ve heard of this being done at other schools. I’m not sure if Ivies do this though</p>
<p>Yes, it would violate FERPA – if there’s no waiver. No, it’s not a violation of antitrust laws (see, e.g., NCAA rules restricting compensation and eligibility of student-athletes re: the (in)applicability of antitrust laws to colleges).</p>
<p>I’d have to read the Common Application fine print – which I’m loathe to do – but I’d be surprised if prospective students didn’t give members leeway to communicate with each other. I do know that admission offices openly claim that they share lists of admitted ED students with other colleges for the purpose of ensuring those applications get scuttled at the non-ED college. I expect that the same language that enables them to share such academic information with other institutions would operate to enable them to share information like the OP suggests. I think they’d only do so where it would create an efficiency or work to their mutual advantage or help them ferret out suspected fraud. I don’t think they’d do it to add to their workload just for the fun of it or to go on fishing expeditions with a view of reducing cross-admits and increase yield (presumably after some sort of bizarre negotiation session where they conduct a “draft” to see which college gets which students).</p>
<p>No they do not</p>
<p>Sorry – my note about Anti-Trust had to do with the former practice by the Ivies +MIT where they would compared FA offers to accepted applicants. This collusion was correctly deemed anti-trust and the Ivies +MIT stopped this practice.</p>
<p>Well, for my part, I was too sweeping in my characterization that colleges get a free antitrust pass outside of the financial aid (quasi-commercial) decisions.</p>
<p>It looks like there’s a one-time exchange of information that’s allowed for financial aid matters. I think colleges would be treading on thin ice if they had other supplemental exchanges, unrelated to financial aid, that they assert are carved out of the antitrust law. I cannot possibly imagine a benefit to such sharing that would be worth toeing the line between illegal and legal antitrust behavior. Even though such an exchange might technically be legal if it was litigated after a lengthy and costly Department of Justice investigation, the practical reality is that the antitrust laws presumably have enough of a chilling effect to make it highly unlikely the colleges are passing each other notes about applicants.</p>
<p>[Antitrust</a> Compliance: Yale Vice Presiden and General Counsel](<a href=“http://ogc.yale.edu/legal_reference/antitrust.html]Antitrust”>http://ogc.yale.edu/legal_reference/antitrust.html)</p>
<p>In the end, T26E4, I think I’m the one who should say “sorry” because you were more right and I was more wrong.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1063838564-post11.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1063838564-post11.html</a></p>
<p>^One theory, courtesy of christiansoldier. A fun read.</p>
<p>I’m favoriting that…and I wish there was a “Like” button, too. Thanks!</p>
<p>@T26E4: Good to hear that. </p>
<p>So, just to confirm, if I reject my ED acceptance on the ground that its f/a offer is insufficient, this news does not go to my other Regular round schools? </p>
<p>I’m asking this cause I read from other threads that when I reject ED school’s financial aid offer, all of my other regular round schools of similar tier get to know about that, and they tend to reject me, to protect thier yields. This is not happening any more, right???</p>