<p>I'm planning on Applying to Yale EA and then Harvard and PENN regular decision. I hear that these schools all share lists and do what with them i have no idea but it is supposedly a way to hurt ur chances? is this true?</p>
<p>and would harvard actually think im more interested in yale if i EA'd Yale? GAH</p>
<p>NO. They don't care.</p>
<p>With the acceptance rates of top schools being as low as they are, you would be stupid not to apply to other schools.</p>
<p>"who" else you apply to? lol.</p>
<p>anyways, i agree with windcloudultra, they wouldn't even notice.</p>
<p>They don't care. H has the best yield in the country. They don't worry about where else students apply to. They even tell alum interviewers not to ask about other applications.</p>
<p>The exception is if you apply ED. Harvard will not accept anyone who has an ED admission. If H finds out that it has accidentally accepted such a student, it will withdraw its acceptance. That's because by applying ED, the student has promised to attend that college if accepted.</p>
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<p>I wonder if one member of high school class of 2007 found out about that rule the hard way.</p>
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<p>Of course that's what they would think. If you were more interested in Harvard, you would have applied EA there. On the other hand, they will only know about your Yale application if you tell them.</p>
<p>And they don't care. They assume Harvard is everyone's first choice, even if they do lose 20%.</p>
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<p>You are right, in your reply, that Harvard wouldn't care in any case. Harvard has the yield advantage. But of course now Harvard now longer has an early program, so everyone applies regular action to Harvard beginning with high school class of 2008 (the OP's class?). That's the great unknown for next year: with Harvard and Princeton going to a single-deadline system, students applying to those two colleges may as well apply early action somewhere else, and that means somewhere else is no longer sure which students really like, say, Yale as a first choice and which students are applying early to Yale strategically to maximize chances of admission.</p>
<p>"I'm planning on Applying to Yale EA and then Harvard and PENN regular decision. I hear that these schools all share lists and do what with them"</p>
<p>They don't share lists except of ED admissions. They used to share lists when it came to alloting scholarships, but that was ruled illegal.</p>
<p>Interviewers are indeed not supposed to ask; I have asked once or twice for the sole purpose of giving an EA applicant some advice about adding safeties (and I told the student that that's why I was asking).</p>
<p>they don't care. in fact, i applied early to yale and after deferring me yale rejected me. harvard did not.</p>
<p>My son's interviewer asked why he didn't apply EA. My son told him he didn't apply to Harvard because they only had single choice (last year obviously) and he thought he was a better fit at MIT. The interviewer then spent some time trying to sell my son on science at Harvard. :) In the end Harvard still accepted him, MIT didn't, and he ended up deciding for Computer Science Carnegie Mellon was a better place for him.</p>
<p>Anyway, it's certainly not counted against you. (Especially now that there's really no reason not to apply somewhere else early.) If they like you, they'll take you.</p>
<p>I was asked by my interviewer for some reason.</p>
<p>In our kid’s case, Princeton asked during interview if student has applied to Harvard or Yale. Harvard and Yale did not ask this during kid’s interview.</p>