<p>How many people have you heard of getting in, but only to Harvard? I think that may be my speciality. I've gotten in EA, but I don't feel so hot about my chances at MIT, Stanford, Princeton, etc. My Yale interview went very very very poorly.</p>
<p>a girl at my school last year got into harvard EA but didnt get into pton/yale/stanford =X</p>
<p>some girl i went to chinese school with got into harvard and nowhere else...and at least you got in somewhere. :)</p>
<p>I'm betting that the students who only get into Harvard blew off their other applications, particularly after getting into Harvard EA.</p>
<p>Unless they got into Harvard EA and only applied to places like Yale and Princeton in the RD round.</p>
<p>I think this happens all the time actually... Those who only apply to harvard and get in EA will only get into harvard :p</p>
<p>not relaly cuz many people after applying EA to Harvard apply other places RD to compare financial aid packages which is exactly what my friend did last year...but really in the end had no other choices =X</p>
<p>A Hispanic girl from a high school near mine (college class of 2007) got into Harvard RD and NOWHERE else....2.8 GPA, 1130 SAT....</p>
<p>Of those who applied to several colleges but got rejected by all but Harvard, I know of two:</p>
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<li><p>Henry Kissinger</p></li>
<li><p>A kid in the class of 2008 - He was a high school dropout but had other things going for him. He is very smart and had founded and run his own successful company and other achievements. I guess the other schools couldn't see beyond the lack of a HS diploma.</p></li>
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<p>You have to also consider the fact that, after getting into Harvard EA, your statistical chances of getting into other schools are greatly reduced if they ever manage to find out. </p>
<p>Those other schools know that they can't compete with harvard for you, esp not financially if its another ivy league, since harvard's need-based program is only rivaled by princeton.</p>
<p>In my case, Yale, somehow knew that i was already admitted, and my interviewer flat out said, the admissions office wanted to know if i was worth 'fighting over'. Read: i'll get waitlisted at best, probably rejected, because they don't want to waste an acceptance spot on someone who's probably going to harvard anyways and thus lower their matricuation rate.</p>
<p>You can try your best to make the case that you still hold all your options open. But you applied EA to harvard, and they know that, that's where your allegience lies.</p>
<p>I wouldn't be surprised if i get rejected everywhere else, in fact, i'm expecting it.</p>
<p>What happened with your interview?</p>
<p>What you are talking about is the ultimate application of "Tufts Syndrome!"</p>
<p>what a hispanic girl got in with a 2.8 now that is not fair and i'm hispanic. this is hard to believe. she should atleast have a 3.5 unweighted gpa</p>
<p>Why is it associated with Tufts?</p>
<p>and are you talking about my situation? </p>
<p>What happened with my interview?
I basically got 3 types of questions, 1. philsophical, 2. why yale, and then i got a half an hour talk about why harvard sucks, including a laundry list of yale pranks.</p>
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<li><p>A Wall Street Journal article published a few years ago, focussing on Tufts and other schools, fingered a practice known to exist (though often denied) whereby an institution will reject or waitlist an applicant meeting or exceeding ordinary standards, but who is suspected of preferring another school higher up the academic food chain. The goal is yield protection.</p></li>
<li><p>The suspicion of other posters, apparently was that, given the cross-admit data, Yale would not go out of its way to "waste an admit letter" on you if it knew you had been admitted - or were likely to be admitted - to Harvard.</p></li>
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<p>How did Yale know?</p>
<p>I mean, i have no evidence really on either side, but my interviewer's words really makes me question about their knowledge. Especially since he started out by telling me to not consider harvard for a host of reasons including his experience at a party in the yard.</p>
<p>Better yet, Do they know for sure? Or do they hunt around places like CC and eventually figure out who i am.</p>
<p>Byerly, would this also occur the other way around? (Yale admit applying to Harvard)...or would it really not matter, since Harvard would think that students would prefer to come to H anyways due to their 80% yield of cross-admits.</p>
<p>Tufts syndrome is called Tufts syndrome because it is most noticeable to applicants who are good enough to possibly get into Harvard. If one of their safety schools is another good school near Boston, that could be Tufts. I suppose admission officers at Tufts are sick and tired of admitting applicants who end up going to Harvard, so now the reputation is that they reject applicants who are "too good" for their general applicant pool, and that kind of practice is called "Tufts syndrome." Note that I have no idea whether or not Tufts really does this, but the book The Gatekeepers documents an instance of a Wesleyan admissions officer rejecting a Harvard admittee, and the revealed</a> preferences study shows that Princeton sometimes rejects stronger applicants to take weaker applicants--that is, to reject the applicants that Princeton feels will choose Harvard anyhow. </p>
<p>Fortunately, my state university engages in none of this nonsense. It offers admission to strong candidates for admission, period. Some of them go on to more famous schools out of state, but some stay in state and add to the luster of State U.'s programs. It would be silly to reject applicants like that.</p>
<p>If it is widely known that applying early is an advantage, a Yale interviewer of ANYONE in the regular round would have to wonder why one didn't apply to Yale in the early round. That's just normal curiosity--surely everyone in the know applies SOMEWHERE early these days. Princeton can figure that some of its regular round applicants simply didn't dare apply early decision (binding), but since Yale's early action is nonbinding, why not make use of it?</p>
<p>This is one reason Yale just HAD to match Harvard and Princeton's financial aid inititiatives - and right away.</p>
<p>Some damage had been done with the relative decline in application numbers; but this damage could be partially neutralized by getting a similar package in place before cross-admits made their choices.</p>
<p>The rate of cross-admit loss is already high enough without suffering further erosion - not only with respect to "ordinary" admits but also with respect to recruited athletes.</p>
<p>"The only reason Harvard stays competitive, according to (football recruiting director) Westerfield, is that its Harvard. Three out of four students who get into Harvard and either Yale or Princeton choose Harvard, and its no different with high-scoring athletes. Typically, if I want a kid, I get him, Westerfield says. I didnt lose any kids last year. Our best player, [quarterback] Ryan Fitzpatrick [05], is a fourth bander. Youll get excellent football players in the fourth band.</p>