Ivies talking to each other

Byerly
Sun, 02 Jan 2005 23:11:39 +0000

I don’t believe the Ivies share lists of applicants. Colleges that have admitted applicants via binding ED programs may share the names of these admits with some other schools.

Other than students contractually committed via an ED contract, no applicant - including an athletic recruit, is “bound” to a single Ivy school - as they are not parties to the “Letter of Intent” program.

Dartmouth, say, may fully expect some recruited football player to enroll, but if they are unpleasantly surprised to get a note on April 15 (or July 15) telling them that the kid has changed his mind and is going to Penn … there is nothing Dartmouth can do about it.

This kind of thing happens, too.