<p>Yes I read that article as well. The dean specifically states that they don’t like to give different decisions to twins IF THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE SIMILAR. I mean they’re not gonna reject the awesome one just because the other one isn’t.</p>
<p>kaira07, do you think you’re more qualified than your best friend (academically, etc.)?</p>
<p>@roadblock7: According to that article, the academic stats of those four siblings differed greatly. I’m curious as to why Yale felt obliged to admit all of them (assuming it wasn’t by chance). Do they really give preference to siblings in the admissions process?</p>
<p>well… on the Stanford app they specifically ask do you have a sibling applying and is that sibling your twin… they must care about it</p>
<p>I didn’t read about the stats of the four siblings. However, the lowest one could definitely have benefitted from having 3 siblings already admitted. At that point, you really can’t reject the fourth.</p>
<p>^Yes.</p>
<p>A rare hook–be a quintuplet with sibs with awesome stats. :D</p>
<p>mickjagger- I’m in the arts stream and she’s in science so I don’t know if it can be compared exactly.However my rank in my stream is 1, which is slightly better than her rank in her stream. My SAT’s are better. In ninth and tenth grades we were nearly equal academically. (I beat her in the 9th and she beat me in the10th.) Our EC’s are very different. I’m into basketball, debating and MUN while she’s a FANTASTIC singer(she sent in a supplement too) and environmentalist. We have one thing is common though- We’re the co-chief editors of the school magazine. Let’s see what happens!</p>
<p>They’re probably wrapping things up now. :eek:</p>
<p>^Does it scare anyone else that our applications are probably already in one of the piles already?</p>
<p>Yes. I’m assuming they made a decision about me about a month ago… and the decision is somewhere… just sitting there… excited to find out! the Dartmouth results seem extremely encouraging!</p>
<p>^^It scared me right now after looking at your question ccuser.
With my friends getting in at Cornell and Penn, decisions seem a lot more real than before. It is quite an exciting process though.
It’s not fair that their decisions come out before Yale!</p>
<p>At least we’re not the 16th like MIT.</p>
<p>ALL of my friends who applied to Penn got in. Guy who applied to Stanford is waiting.
Now I’m terrified!</p>
<p>Lol what? All of my friends who did Penn ED got rejected.</p>
<p>One of my friends applying SCEA is a Yale legacy (grandparents). Her grandparents got a letter that said “thanks for trusting us with your grandchild’s education”. Is it a generic letter or does it indicate good things for next Wednesday?</p>
<p>^Sounds like a generic letter sent to all legacies.</p>
<p>@duruffle: Although the article said that they do not give preference to siblings, I’m not sure if I believe it. I’m sure all of the siblings were qualified for Yale, I don’t think Yale would have accepted one of the siblings if he/she was not qualified. However, since most of the applicant pool is qualified, I think that having other siblings admitted could have been a tipping point in a borderline case. Plus, we only have vague ideas about their stats based on class ranking and a few mentions of extracurriculars. I’m sure there is more to the applicants than the superficial stats the article shares.
However, I think the sibling thing probably played some role.</p>
<p>Also, just heard back from my friends who applied early to other schools. 1 rejected from Columbia, 1 rejected from Cornell, and 1 deferred from Penn. Not a good start for my school. At least we have 5 days to keep the dream alive.</p>
<p>They’re flipping through the rejected apps, laughing at the stats (a 2400? psh, we’re yale. mwahaha), throwing them in a fireplace, and making smores. They have that delicious crushed-dream taste.</p>
<p>My school got killed by Cornell - 4 applied, 3 deferred, 1 rejected. 'Twas an awkward day for the rejected kid. I mean, only one of them was top ten, but they all had really good ECs, and i know one had fantastic teacher recs. I’ll wait to see how my friend does with Brown on monday…</p>
<p>At my school, 5 people got into penn, 1 deferred, 1 rejected ED, 2 admits to REA stanford, 5 rejections, 1 deferred, and 1 rejection to Columbia. This is certainly becoming more real, and I can’t stand the wait!</p>
<p>Consider yourselves lucky, guys! I have to wait until the 16th at 9 PM for my MIT decision.</p>