In what order will you be checking your Ivy League admissions decisions?

Applying to College
21

Have my brother check Upenn on his computer while I check Harvard on mine?

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  1. Columbia (most desired)
  2. Princeton
  3. UPenn
  4. Yale
23

Well, I was one of those people that applied to all 8 Ivies, so I’ll start off with the place I got deferred from to have closure (ahem, rejection) before moving on through my list starting where I most want to go to least want to go (descending order).

  1. Yale
  2. Harvard
  3. Princeton
  4. Columbia
  5. Brown
  6. UPenn
  7. Dartmouth
  8. Cornell (Already admitted, so let's end off on a positive note haha)
24

In order of unlikeliness of me getting in.
Columbia then Cornell.
Though to be honest it’s unlikely I’ll get into either.

25

I’m noticing a trend. It seems as if more people are applying to all of the Ivy League schools. Multiple people, including me, have chosen to do that on this thread.

26

I’m sticking with my ABC order, but I can’t wait to hear back from Columbia and UPenn. Those are my number ones.

27

I have others colleges that I will see in between, but in general it will be in the following ascending order:

Harvard
Princeton
Cornell
Penn

28

I only applied to two, so I’ll do Cornell first then Brown (top choice)

29

I’ll start with my most likely rejections, so I can be prepared for rejections and be desensitized to all later rejections…

  1. Harvard
  2. Princeton
  3. Penn
  4. Dartmouth
30

@Gigantor
How are you already admitted to Cornell and still getting likely letters?
In any case, congrats, that’s quite impressive

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Least to most desirable

Columbia
Penn
Brown

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  1. Brown (the trick is to only apply to one ;) )
33

I’m opening them according to the order in which I applied!

  1. Brown (deferred ED holla)
  2. Harvard
  3. Princeton
  4. Yale
  5. Dartmouth
34

Wow Gigantor, feel the love LOL!

I’d do them in order of yield - Harvard first etc. (there is a thread about Ivy yield).

But when I got my Penn letter, I didn’t look at my other Ivy letter for a few days because I didn’t know if an acceptance would change me wanting to go to Penn, or if a rejection would make me feel bad after such happiness.

In this day and age of FA packages, I would think you just open them all at once and if you get more than one, start comparing FA packages (if you get them all on the same day).

35

Harvard then Columbia: already know I got into Columbia (likely) so I’ll stifle the disappointment of not getting into Harvard with an acceptance at the end.

36

I’m one of those kids that applied to all 8 Ivies haha.
I know that for three (Harvard, Princeton, and Dartmouth) my essays were so bad that I’m absolutely guaranteed rejection. For the rest, it’s the usual - highly unlikely :stuck_out_tongue:
I’m saving myself the struggle of choosing which schools I care most about by going alphabetically. (And I think I might just keep my Vanderbilt acceptance open in another tab so that I can look at it to console myself after every rejection :wink: )

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  1. Columbia (least desirable of the 3 Ivies I applied to)
  2. Harvard (opening up the least likely 2nd so I can prepare for a rejection from Penn)
  3. Open up my UChicago acceptance letter again to console myself over the 2 rejections
  4. Penn
  5. Pay my UChicago enrollment deposit and cry at getting 3 rejections in one day/smile because I'm going to UChicago

Actually, I’ll be at a mock trial competition when decisions come out, so I may end up checking on my phone while sitting in the audience and then start screaming and crying during someone’s opening speech.

38

Order of preference (ascending):
Princeton
Columbia
Yale

39

Im a junior, and in the hypothetical situation that I apply to all 8, it would go in from least desired/least selective to most desired/most selective. That is to say Im not equating desire with selectivity, but Im considering a combination of both in the order in which I open the decisions. So, from least desired/selective to most:

Dartmouth
Columbia
Brown
Penn
Princeton
Cornell
Yale
Harvard

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Im a junior, and in the hypothetical situation that I apply to all 8, it would go in from least desired/least selective to most desired/most selective. That is to say Im not equating desire with selectivity, but Im considering a combination of both in the order in which I open the decisions. So, from least desired/selective to most:

Dartmouth
Columbia
Brown
Penn
Princeton
Cornell
Yale
Harvard