<p>This is so desperate! My twin sister and I are Co-valedictorian who are attending the same high school, joining the same academic clubs, (club co-presidents of our 5clubs) and making the same grades and receiving the same competition awards.. Even our PSAT scores are extremely close.( around the 2000s) Will this situation be a disaster/disadvantage for us if we apply to the same Ivy League schools?</p>
<p>Twins from my kid’s class both were deferred from Yale, but were both accepted for RD.</p>
<p>Twins from our local high school - both with 2400 SAT- were accepted at Stanford, one early, one deferred then accepted RD. good luck!</p>
<p>You’re fine. Have you heard of the famous Castro twins? They were in a similar situation:
[Julian</a> Castro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Castro]Julian”>Julian Castro - Wikipedia)
[url=<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquín_Castro]Joaqu”>Joaquin Castro - Wikipedia]Joaqu</a></p>
<p>Or…have you heard of the Collins twins…they have been in the news recently.</p>
<p>[Jason</a> Collins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Collins]Jason”>http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Collins)</p>
<p>[Jarron</a> Collins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarron_Collins]Jarron”>http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarron_Collins)</p>
<p>quite amazing answers, thank you all, I was very comsiderate about this at first:) But I feel much better. In addition, I won some academic competition awards in extemp and debate in my freshman and sophomore years, but they are just meetings, not official district ones, can I still put them on my resume? (they’re 1st speaker awards or octo/quarter finalists)Will they have any effect on admission at all?</p>
<p>Katherine – my twin kids just finished their sophomore years at Yale (daughter) and Harvard (son), respectively. This is nothing more than my humble opinion, but it was my sense early in the process from available reference materials that being a twin certainly can’t hurt. I can tell you that in chatting with the admission staffs during early freshman year parents’ events, the admission offices were well aware of the twin relationship.<br>
I recall that each of my kids mentioned the twin relationship in one essay or another in their applications (don’t underestimate the importance of highly personalized, critically thought-through essays). Obviously, each twin sibling should have strong credentials to even think this is a positive factor.
No empirical data to back this up, but the personal take-away was that with capable and qualified twins, the admissions folks noticed in a positive sense – and this was the case with a couple of top non-ivy institutions as well. What was really enjoyable in the process, and not just with Ivies, were the discussions between my kids regarding college choices and the early determination that they were going to head in different campus directions (even before the H and Y decisons were made).
Best of luck to both of you --</p>