<p>So, I was waitlisted at 5 colleges.
My top choice is between two schools and both WLed me.
I was wondering if its okay to write letters of interest to both schools? and possibly one other school?
Or are we suppose to write only one letter?</p>
<p>I think its cool. Thats what I did, I hope the Adcomms don’t hang around here 
But seriously, why would that be a problem? They don’t talk to each other</p>
<p>Hey that kid, perplexity 215, we waitlisted him, did you? Oh ok, he sent us a letter of interest, yea, we’re pretty cool… wait what? he sent you one too? Holy shi% that son*****, lets reject him.
^ fiction</p>
<p>Taking only the Ivies as examples for this question: there are 8 Ivies, and each has about 1,000 kids on the waitlist. If you send an “I love you” email to Cornell (you are my first choice!!) and the identical email to Penn (you are my first choice!!), how likely is it that either Cornell and Penn will send you name to the other adcoms of the other Ivy schools and have those other adcoms check your name against I love you email from all of their waitlisted students? The math is against this scenario actually playing out. If each school has 1,000 waitlisted students and there are 8 schools, each school will have to send out the names of everyone on its waitlist to all the other schools and vice versa, so you will then have traffic of 1,000 x 7 x 8 = 56,000 total email traffic. I don’t think the Ivy admissions offices are set up to deal with that traffic, especially in as much as they are also involved in trying to get the admitted students admitted all through April and most of May.</p>
<p>But, I could be wrong. Maybe they all subscribe to some central database and just forward your “I love you email” to that database and if it comes up “twice,” then they know that have a player trying to game them.</p>
<p>Thank you guys!</p>
<p>The colleges have enough to do without trading info with other schools – ED being the only exception.</p>
<p>No one student is important enough to them for them to care whether that kid is simultaneously pledging to love someone else. Anyway, any idiot can write an I love you note. I doubt it matters. The colleges are there to choose the class that suits them, not to fulfill your dreams.</p>