<p>Hey, </p>
<p>Just a quick question - would Yale check to see if I was admitted at Princeton??? I am on Y’s wait-list and so if they checked and saw that I was in at P would they be less likely to accept me? Could Y’s office get access to this information?</p>
<p>Thank you- sorry if I sound a bit intense but I really want to go to Y !</p>
<p>To which schools you’ve been admitted to is private information – Yale won’t know or look for it. They’ll base making an offer to you based on openings and the strength of your file. Good luck – I know you’ll be at a wonderful institution come this fall regardless!</p>
<p>Hey! Thank you for replying - just to ease my nerves do you have any official links to say this is private information?</p>
<p>Would Yale check to see if I was admitted at Princeton???
– Probably not.</p>
<p>If they checked and saw that I was in at P would they be less likely to accept me?
– Do you notice how people consider Angelina Jolie less attractive because Brad Pitt likes her too? No? It works that way in real life, too. If anything, it would probably make them MORE likely to accept you, by confirming their judgment. (Of course, I personally might not proposition Angelina Jolie, because, apart from the fact that I’m married and don’t cheat, I would assume that I couldn’t compete with Brad Pitt. But Yale isn’t me. Yale is George Clooney, and it isn’t afraid of being compared to Brad Pitt.)</p>
<p>Could Y’s office get access to this information?
– Yes and no. Probably it could if it had some legitimate reason. But making certain that it wasn’t competing with Princeton to attract the same students is not a legitimate reason. It’s an ILLEGITIMATE reason. About 20 years ago, the Ivies all signed a consent decree with the U.S. government promising to stop co-ordinating their financial aid decisions, and I’m sure the sort of information sharing you are talking about here would give everyone in the respective general counsel’s offices the willies.</p>
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<p><em>snort</em> Thanks for the giggle.</p>
<p>Interesting story from 2002. Princeton admin office people broke into Yale’s computer system to find out who was being admitted.</p>
<p>[Yale</a> Daily News - Princeton officials broke into Yale online admissions decisions](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/4565?badlink=1]Yale”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/4565?badlink=1)</p>