So OP is saying that if one incredibly well credentialed student gets into four of these schools, and another gets into all five, the latter has somehow ACHIEVED more than the former? Nonsense. I think OP is ignoring the role that luck and happenstance play in college admissions. Besides, it’s not the admissions decisions that qualify as ACHIEVEMENTS, but the credentials that led to those admissions. I suggest OP read some of the decision threads on the HYPSM forums to see the number of incredibly high ACHIEVING students who are turned down by one of these schools every year. And then there are the many astonishing young people who wouldn’t consider applying to all five schools because they recognize that they are very different places and not all would suit their needs and desires. I agree that the data OP seeks is not available, and that even if it were, it would mean nothing.</p>
<p>That statistic would not exist because there is really no way of officially measuring that, other than, like one person more sarcastically suggested, looking through the entire list of applicants. The only plausible version of this I could see is maybe, just MAYBE, a very tiny chance of seeing who got into all the Ivies, and I can only see that existing somewhere because they are all in the same division. An interesting question, but no real way to find the answer.</p>
<p>How could I read the Common App for the apps that got into all ? that would be most entertaining and shed some light on admissions’ “just be yourself” advice when applying.</p>
<p>The valedictorian at my usually poorly performing high school was accepted to every single Ivy League school except for Brown (and only because she didn’t apply). She is white as snow and one of the wealthier kids at my school - so no hooks that I know of. Both of her parents went to UVA so she wasn’t a legacy either.</p>