<p>So I'm applying to every Ivy League University and I was wondering whether or not I need to send in my Community College Official Transcripts and my Stanford Summer College Official Transcript. Please respond if you can help out a confused procrastinating applicant!</p>
<p>Why do you want to apply to all of the Ivies?</p>
<p>Sounds to me like you are just going for the name and the prestige, because these universities are very different. I hope you are not applying to all of them just for the sake of it. I mean some of the schools are similar, and may stimulate some of your interests, but common.</p>
<p>Just my $.02</p>
<p>I think of it like this: If you have the money to spend on the college app fees, why not try to open up as many choices as possible to select from?</p>
<p>Referring to the application's for each college, you will note that you must send in all transcripts. To claify, you must request those institutions tha you attended to send in official transcripts.</p>
<p>I guess, but why waste the money just for the sake of it. You don't need to apply and be accepted in order to have choices. You had plenty of time to figure out what you liked or didn't like about each school.</p>
<p>We obviously disagree on this topic so let's agree to disagree :-)</p>
<p>As far as the appllying to all ivy's, mt opinion is that as long as you have the gpa, ec's, SAT's, and can write a good essay why not. As you probably know the ivy's are a flip of a coin. You don't have to be perfect, just within the range. So, if one says Rejected the other just might say Accepted.</p>
<p>I guess my point is that, I believe that one should apply to a college one actually wants to go to. All the ivies are very different and it just comes off as odd to want to apply to all of them.</p>
<p>Again, just my opinion.</p>
<p>i agree with alvy</p>
<p>The point is, many of the ivy's are completely different. For instance, Brown has virtually no curriculum requirements, whereas Columbia is extremely rigid. There is no reason to waste the money. Research the schools and figure out which is the best fit. Chances are, if you apply to all of them, you'll be stretched too thin and you won't get into any of them. All these schools have supplements/different apps, and you have to fill them out. Whether you have the scores or not is only the first step. Besides, what are you going to do in an interview/essay when someone asks you, "Why do you want to go to ____ (insert ivy league institution here)?" For the name? Please, that's the last thing they want to hear. College is not about where you go, but what you make of it. Research the schools, and apply to the schools you really want to go to.</p>
<p><strong>wishes he had the ability to express the exact same though as downtown128 does</strong></p>
<p>lol.</p>
<p>hey! It's important not to just put a general label and say that you'll apply to all ivies. They ARE really different and you need to do significant research on each one because they'll ask why you want to come to their university. If you focus on a select number of schools, you have the chance to sound more convincing for each one. Also, remember...Stanford and Duke are two great schools that aren't ivies so look into those too...</p>
<p>yeah, I'm going through all of the ivies simply because of a Stanford SCEA deferral!</p>
<p>I agree with the idea that while all of the colleges in the Ivy League are fine colleges (and Stanford, not an Ivy League college, is a fine college too), it is odd to apply exactly to all eight of those colleges. I didn't say crazy, but I did say odd. A lot of applicants I know would be better off applying to any of several non-Ivy League colleges in addition to a few of the Ivy League colleges, as long as they can articulate a reason for applying to each college one college at a time. Supposing the Ivy League athletic conference didn't exist, what kind of colleges would you look for? </p>
<p>To answer the OP's basic question, one always has to submit official transcripts of previous secondary school and college courses from all previous secondary schools and colleges for a complete application file to any college I have ever heard of. That's a very routine requirement.</p>