<p>well actually you can't sue them for being sneaky... they're private institutions... you only sue somebody when he breaks the law.. Though I think that sharing personal info crosses that line =)</p>
<p>I seriously doubt that they share files. What would they do? Haha---"Hey, look---this kid actually had the nerve to apply to Dartmouth, Yale, Brown and even Columbia, too! That's an obvious one--REJECT!"</p>
<p>Keynes1105 ,</p>
<p>share applications as in only names? or what.</p>
<p>brilliant...4 ivies...I'm screwed</p>
<p>no no no no you're not! Don't buy into this. It still sounds too idiotic to me and others. I mean, being punished for applying to other schools? I hardly think so...</p>
<p>I was being ironic
I find it extremely hard to believe that places like Harvard with >10000 applocants find the time to verify whether or not each one has applied to the other Ivies</p>
<p>Don't the ED schools share their lists of admitted students?</p>
<p>Assuming they are sharing anything, would it be entire applications or just lists of people who apply? Especially in a ED/EA situation, I don't think I have a problem with that. It's my own fault for trying to cheat the system if I get caught.</p>
<p>Agreed. And yeah, I heard it was just a list of applicants to a particular university. Which is, of course, okay considering ED/SCEA are binding.</p>
<p>SCEA isn't binding.</p>
<p>whoops, meant single-choice. sorry.</p>
<p>She told me that he said they share names not applications. Anyways, I think applying to one ivy should increase your chance of getting in-it shows that your not just applying there for the prestigious name. Besides, it makes absoultely no sense to apply to more than 4. Say you want to go into engineering-I guarantee that you can't even find 2 ivys with better undergrad engineering programs than say MIT, Cal Tech, Carnagie Melon, UC Berkeley, Michigan, or Purdue. Because the fact of the matter is that Ivy's do not all have the best undergrad programs and applying to more than 4 shows that the only reason why your doing that is because you want the prestige of degree from an ivy-not the best possible education in the field you want to go into.</p>