<p>S went to one Ivy, D is at another (hence, I have been there), just apply to schools you are serious about. It will also save time, the common app is not that common when you consider sups.</p>
<p>Few people should apply to all the Ivies… Probably the most contradictory thing possible would be someone who applies to Columbia and Brown.</p>
<p>I applied to 5 Ivies and got into 1 (Cornell). It was probably the only one I truly had a passion for going to.</p>
<p>Your sources Swimguy and Vasud? A close look at common data sets and a close read of the authors Danas sites will tell you that’s not true.</p>
<p>And unless you’re dishonest, the ivies have 2 sources of seeing where else you are applying, the question on the common app and they see where the FAFSA has been sent if you file it. All of them practice Tufts Syndrome to some extent.</p>
<p>Actually looking at the high yields for the Ivy League colleges will tell you that you are wrong. If most of the people that applied were accepted to either none or all, the yield rates would be well below 50%. As you can see, they are not.</p>
<p>Please stop spreading your propaganda.</p>
<p>danas- I do not think “most” waitlists are for political purposes. I was waitlisted at Cornell, but I have absolutely no connections there. My friends also have no connections to the places where they were waitlisted. Now, do some schools waitlist students that are “important” (like legacies) just to make the parents think that they were considerate? Sure, but that practice is not common, and the majority of waitlist students, at least from my experience (and note that I come from a wealthy school where it is common to be connected somehow to a top school), are actually just regular applicants.</p>
<p>According to Hernandez and Steinberg, the connections are most often about the high school. For example, turning down the second in the class while accepting weaker students, who were desirable to the college for other reasons. Put the student on the wait list rather reject outright, which might ruffle feathers at the high school.
Of course some wait list students actually are “close”, and might be accepted. Just not the Salutatorian in the above case.</p>
<p>You have the freedom to apply to every single school.</p>
<p>If you have the time and resources to submit compelling applications, by all means, go for it.</p>
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<p>What question on the Common Application? </p>
<p><a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/DownloadForms.aspx[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/DownloadForms.aspx</a> </p>
<p>(P.S. Columbia still doesn’t use the Common Application, right?)</p>
<p>1) The OP never stated that he/she was applying for FA, so FAFSA would not count.</p>
<p>2) Because OP is scared of them knowing, she probably would have left those questions blank or not honestly filled them out. </p>
<p>As for how that information would influence ADCOM is unknown.</p>