Twins

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Does anyone know UPenn's policy on family members (twins) applying for early decision? Advantage, Disadvantage, or indifferent?</p>

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<p>if anything it helps. coaches tells twins that admissions takes the highest SAT score and applies it to both. so two twins, 2350 and 2150, one is obviously smarter, both get treated as if they had the higher score. also there’s the emotional component especially among female adcoms of not wanting to separate twins, thinking twins are cute, etc.</p>

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<p>I don’t think they think twins are cute. It’s just an enormous pressure to accept one and not the other for the family. It really divides the family up. I can’t even describe it in words, but to have one twin get in and the other one be rejected, it really does not encourage sisterly or brotherly affection. Jealousy and parental favoritism get in the way, in addition to the rejected twin putting pressure on himself/herself. It’s not good at all. :/</p>

<p>I believe Yale did a feature on it that my sister told me about. At least at Yale, they will either take them both, or reject them both. ^^Apparently not at Penn though.</p>

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<p>are any of you twins? and if so, what happened at early decision if you both applied?</p>

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<p>That seems like a rather difficult statement to support…</p>

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<p>I’m a twin and I was told at the Alumni Office that they do prefer to accept/reject twins together, especially for ED. Obviously if there is a huge difference between the twins, it doesn’t matter, but if both are at the top there’s a good chance both will be accepted.</p>

<p>My twin brother ended up applying to MIT early (and got in), so I have no idea what would’ve happened if he applied with me ED.</p>

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<p>one of my friends here has a twin also in our grade. not saying it means it’s easier but i mean it happens and from what others have said it would make sense that they would want to take twins together or not either.</p>

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<p>I don’t know about Penn, but I know Duke takes it into consideration.</p>

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<p>I know twins who were both accepted into the college and later both accepted to wharton for dual degrees</p>