For 2015, Two Seniors Got Into All Eight Ivy's

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For 2015, it looks like there are two seniors (so far) who got into all eight Ivy’s. Congratulations to both.

Pooja Chandrashekar

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/virginia-student-earns-admission-to-all-eight-ivy-league-schools-and-others/2015/04/10/64e46100-df0d-11e4-a500-1c5bb1d8ff6a_story.html

From the article:

"Even at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a top-ranked magnet school, senior Pooja Chandrashekar stands out among her brainiac peers. She’s got a 4.57 grade-point average, scored a 2390 (out of 2400) on the SAT, and aced all 13 of her Advanced Placement exams. She also founded a national nonprofit organization that encourages middle-school girls to participate in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs.

She’s also developed a mobile app that analyzes speech patterns and predicts with 96 percent accuracy if a person has Parkinson’s disease.Oh, and she’s 17.

College admissions offices took notice. She can now add another bullet to her résumé: Pooja earned admission to all eight Ivy League schools. She was also accepted at Stanford, MIT, Duke, the University of Virginia, the University of Michigan and Georgia Tech, going 14 for 14."

Harold Ekeh

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/17-year-old-ny-student-accepted-at-all-8-ivy-league-schools/2015/04/07/c05d49a2-dd4b-11e4-b6d7-b9bc8acf16f7_story.html

"Elmont High School senior Harold Ekeh had a plan — he would apply to 13 colleges, including all eight Ivy League schools, figuring it would help his chances of getting into at least one great school. It worked. And then some. The teenager from Long Island was accepted at all 13 schools, and now faces his next big test: deciding where to go.

“I was stunned, I was really shocked,” Ekeh told The Associated Press during an interview Tuesday at his home near the Belmont Park racetrack, his four younger brothers running around.

He found out last week he had been accepted to Princeton University. That made him eight for eight in the Ivy League — he had already been accepted to Yale University, Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania. His other acceptances came from Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Stony Brook University and Vanderbilt University."

The articles do not mention if they got waitlisted by Tufts.

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“The articles do not mention if they got waitlisted by Tufts.”
Lol :slight_smile:

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There is someone else, a girl.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/14/teen-ivy-league-schools_n_7064890.html

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Dang man, I couldn’t even get into one. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Keep in mind, though, that very few of the most tippy-top candidates apply to all 8 Ivies.

Some would ED to a school (and get in). Obviously, they wouldn’t be applying to all 8 Ivies.

Many/most would apply SCEA to HYPS with a few EA to MIT/UChicago/Georgetown and get in. Once in, they may apply to the rest of HYPS and maybe a few other schools.

Almost none of them would apply to all 8 Ivies.

To me, getting in to all 4 of HYPS is a bigger deal because almost none of the very strongest candidates are doing something superfluous like applying to all 8 Ivies (and the number of kids who accomplish the HYPS quartet is probably in the low double digits every year).

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There are plenty of others. These are just the ones who have contacted the media.

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Good for them, but it makes me feel worthless :wink:

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Really? Then HYPSM must be more rare than I thought.

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@marvin100, maybe, though I don’t think it’s terribly noteworthy. I’m not much a fan of ego trips.

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@JustOneDad, just how prevalent did you think it was? Each of HYP accepts about 2000 applicants a year while Stanford accepts around 2200.

Less than 200 get in to both H & S. I heard about 100 get in to both P & Y.

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Well, when you put it that way, it does seem like quite a feat.

Although, it seems strange that only 200 get both H and S.

I suspect a mechanism exists to short circuit the plans of students going for both and maybe not so much for the Y, P and M.

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These kids are brilliant geniuses

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@JustOneDad, actually, from what I heard, H & S actually share the most cross-admits among HYPS.

Y, P, & M arguably are more different from each other in what they look for than either H & S are from each other.

I’m not sure why you expect more cross-admits. There are all sorts of idiosyncracies in the admissions process as different schools look for different things and try to put together the best student body they can (so try to get various disparate talents & diversity). The supplements, etc. would be different for each school. Few applicants would have parental legacy at more than one of these schools. And the acceptance rates to all these schools are low. And it’s easier to get in to HYP through SCEA than in RD. And many kids just don’t try as hard after they get a SCEA admit (usually to their first-choice school). Finally, admissions to these schools is far from deterministic, so it shouldn’t be surprising to see a relatively low number of cross-admits.

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https://gma.yahoo.com/teen-lost-home-hurricane-sandy-accepted-7-ivy-235402891–abc-news-topstories.html Here’s one that got into 7. She’s not an immigrant. She’s also black, but that’s pretty much to be expected. She lost her home in Sandy… pretty impressive story.

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It is no doubt impressive to be accepted to all eight Ivies, but I wonder how much that will actually affect them 5, 10, or 20 years down the road. I doubt they will highlight “accepted to all eight Ivies” on their resume when applying for a full-time position or for a Ph.D. program, for example.

But still, pretty amazing…

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@PurpleTitan 40,000 of the top students with many applying to both H and S. While each school is not looking for the exact same thing, the similarities in selection factors are huge compared to the differences.

The chances of only 200 cross-admits is far below what would be expected unless other factors are at work. It turns out that yield is very, very important.

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@JustOneDad, 40K applying (of which maybe 20K are academically qualified) but only roughly 2K accepted at each school. Given what I said, and if you accept that there are idiosyncracies/randomness in the process (so college admissions isn’t deterministic at all; and no, they’re not all looking for the same things in every applicant–that’s a fallacy–they’re looking to build a well-rounded class), you really don’t need conspiracy theories to come up with only 200 cross-admits.

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There are much more people who may have gotten into 8. I know of at least two people who got into 7/7. Many do go public

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However, @JustOneDad, there would be one big yield-protection mechanism at HYPS (less so at S): SCEA. You have to take in to account that someone can apply to only one school SCEA (which means that you may only apply to one of HYPSM in the early round) and that the admit rate during SCEA is several times higher than in RD at HYP.

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I believe that there is a Somali-American girl from the upper Midwest (Minnesota?),and a Bulgarian immigrant from elsewhere in midwest (Ohio? Indiana?). The latter successfully skewers all the commentary about the pigmentation required to run the table successfully. I’m sure that there are more. I think another young woman on the West Coast has come forward.