<p>Just curious, how would colleges deal with identical twins with exactly the same stats?</p>
<p>You basically have to admit both or not admit any.</p>
<p>Do you think that's a bonus or a harm for identical twins?</p>
<p>I doubt they notice, and if they do, it’d be more like “hey, look!” than “IMPLEMENT THE PLAN”, y’know?</p>
<p>It would come down to the essays and interviews and letters of recommendation.</p>
<p>I have identical twin cousins who went to the same school and told admissions it was a package deal - take both or take neither. Happens all the time. Human nature being what it is, I think identical twins is a fun thing, thus appealing. It’s probably a small bonus if I were to guess.</p>
<p>Probably a bonus. Just using anecdotal evidence here, but I know twins who go to Harvard. One had slightly better stats than the other, but the outcome was the same.</p>
<p>I doubt there would be any negative effects unless you shared the same first name. That’s a stat, right?</p>
<p>Something interesting: </p>
<p>[Yale</a> Daily News - Twins team up, split up](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/features/2009/11/13/twins-team-split/]Yale”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/features/2009/11/13/twins-team-split/)</p>
<p>In the article is this quote:
"While Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeff Brenzel said the Office of Undergraduate Admissions has no special policy for twins who apply, he added that Yale prefers not to give twins different admissions decisions if their qualifications appear ‘relatively close in strength.’”</p>
<p>but if they are really on the borderline, wouldn’t the directors kinda think “Well… we don’t want two of you, although we might choose one”</p>
<p>^^
Admissions officers are human too. No one with a heart would split up twins whose qualifications are really close.</p>
<p>^^
I know. They would reject them both instead. Which is why I think it might be disadvantageous in some situation, although I agree that it’ll mostly be an advantage</p>
<p>At my D’s school, there is a set of twins who get in everything together. It’s not a fluke, it’s just that they’re practically the same…you know? Obivously different people, different characters. But SO close! They seem to have the same level of talent in everything. </p>
<p>BUT…at the tippy top schools…with teeny tiny differences separating the “men from the boys”…surely they’ll each be taken on their own merits. They’d want it that way, right? BUT…still hard if one made it and the other didn’t. Hopefully they know, at TOP schools, it’s the toss of a dice anyway. For every person admitted there are 4-5 more (or whatever number!) that are equally qualified…it’s just that they HAVE to narrow down and cut the line somewhere. So hopefully they will find a way not to stress if one got in and one didn’t. Maybe one chose to list is state championship on line 1 of awards and the other listed a local championship and they misread and don’t see that each also had the other award TOO. Who knows what tiny things matter once they get down to the most elite of their applicant pool.</p>