<p>Or Ivy Equivalents (which we'll define as MIT, Stanford, Caltech and Duke)</p>
<p>I'm intereseted in seeing how random the admissions process is at elite schools. Post the Ivies and equivalents you applied to and whether you were accepted or rejected.</p>
<p>^^ Just because we don't see a pattern does not mean that the admission process is random.</p>
<p>MIT - WL/rejected
Princeton - WL/rejected
Columbia - accepted
Duke - accepted
Dartmouth - accepted
Penn - accepted (rejected from Wharton/A&S program, accepted A&S)
Brown - WL/accepted
Cornell - accepted (arts and sciences)</p>
<p>No randomness there - out of all of the HYPSM schools I applied to I did not get in, as well as Wharton, but I got in to the non-HYP Ivies/equivalents.</p>
<p>Duke - Waitlisted > Accepted
Cornell - Waitlisted
Penn - Rejected</p>
<p>Duke is about as competitive as the lower ivies.</p>
<p>Out of high school, granted this was a while ago:</p>
<p>Harvard: Rejected
Yale: Rejected
Columbia College: Accepted
Duke: Rejected
Brown: Waitlisted
Northwestern: Accepted
Michigan: Accepted Honors with money</p>
<p>As a transfer:
Dartmouth: Accepted
Duke: Accepted
Brown: Accepted
Harvard: Waitlisted</p>