<p>My friend was ranting, well not really, about how the other Ivy League Schools were for those that couldn't get accepted into Harvard.</p>
<p>For example he laid out this question: "Have you every heard of anybody who got accepted into Harvard, but denied into Brown, Cornell, heck even Yale? But how many of those that were denied acceptance into Harvard didn't go to those other schools?"</p>
<p>But he did get me curious, has this happened to anybody? </p>
<p>How about accepted to Harvard but denied to Princeton? I consider Princeton to be better than Harvard in many ways. </p>
If you spend time reading through the acceptance threads on CC, you’ll find many students who were accepted to Harvard, but rejected at other schools. For example, my daughter was accepted to Harvard, but rejected from Yale, Princeton and Wesleyan. So, your friend is just ranting.</p>
<p>I also know a number of kids who, in the last few years, were accepted at Harvard and turned down at Yale, Princeton, and others. I knew a third-generation Princeton legacy who was rejected outright early at Princeton, and accepted at Harvard, but not Yale, Columbia, or Brown. The other thing, too, is that, at least at Yale, Princeton, MIT, and Stanford, there are a meaningful number of people who were accepted at Harvard and chose to go elsewhere, and lots more people who never applied to Harvard because they didn’t want to go to Harvard.</p>
<p>OP asks many questions that seem to show he isn’t researching directly. Who care what high school friends think? If you want a top school, you have to get a grip on the details the schools present. And have to (sorry) have the mindset to do that.</p>
<p>Harvard takes a significant minority of people for other reasons than academics (could be for background, essay, etc.). These people certainly could get rejected at a place like Cornell or Dartmouth if their admissions committee isn’t similarly impressed by this other quality/characteristic. In fact, I think Cornell/Dartmouth is less likely to ignore deficiencies in the academic record than Harvard, the latter of which has an attitude that they already have enough academic stars. </p>
<p>Princeton and Yale are not really easier to get into than Harvard, even for top candidates, unless you happen to be a math person (which Harvard has an abundance compared to Princeton/Yale.) </p>
<p>As for Brown, their admissions is very idiosyncratic. I can certainly see (and have seen) people get into Harvard and not Brown. </p>
<p>lol, can’t tell if you’re trolling or not. last year three kids got in to harvard from my school
the first one chose stanford over harvard
the second one chose MIT over harvard
the third one went to harvard but was actually rejected from princeton, stanford, and yale</p>