How many offers for college can you get?

Applying to College
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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>Let’s say a person applies (very hypothetical) to heaps of different colleges, and for example also applies for the Ivy league schools and gets an offer from them, will these schools send out offers all at once and you have to decide? Or will you only get an offer from one of them for each state?</p>

<p>Just curious as where i live you only get one offer per state of uni’s you apply to!</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>Rainnn</p>

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<p>Colleges accept students independently of one another, so students will get offers of admission from as many colleges want them.</p>

<p>Just out of curiousity, where are you from? You don’t sound like a native English speaker.</p>

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<p>Private schools are actually forbidden by anti-collusion laws form collaborating when making admission decisions. Even schools in cooperatives (such as the Claremont Colleges) make independent decisions. Some public state university systems (U of California, for example) appear to have a limited kind of joint admission pool, but multiple offers still be attained. No school knows to which others you have applied (unless you tell them). So the only limit on possible acceptances is the number of applications you are willing to fill out and send in (or, in the case of the Common App, the number of schools you are willing to select).</p>

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<p>I wonder what would happen if top schools were allowed to collaborate. They could protect yield, and more students would be offered admission (no cross-admits). All hypothetical, of course.</p>

<p>Hilarious post by christiansoldier re: “HYP draft”</p>

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<p>Ivy League/MIT collaboration in financial aid was a regular occurrence in the past:</p>

<p>[Ivy</a> League Schools Agree to Halt Collaboration on Financial Aid - The Washington Post | Encyclopedia.com](<a href=“http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-1066172.html]Ivy”>http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-1066172.html)</p>

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<p>Thanks for the reply peoples.</p>

<p>Haha i am actually a native English speaker, not sure why you thought otherwise (the first reply)! I’m from Australia;)</p>