Quadruplets Admitted to Yale

supersizeme
Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:41:25 +0000

I think they were viewed as one person, in a sense. If it was one of them applying, his/her application wouldn’t have been impressive, but the fact that there were four of them was what really distinguished them.

It’s like having the ultimate hook, if you know what I mean. PLUS, they’re URMs. So the acceptance isn’t that surprising when you think about it.

The only way it could have gone down was this:
A) only one was accepted.
OR
B) all four were accepted, because they’re viewed holistically as one.

Fortunately for them, the latter was the case.

They’re all great students in itself, but it seemed to me that it was all four of them as a whole that made them unique and stand out more. I’m sure they stressed the whole quadruplet thing a lot in their applications.

The only shame about this is that they publicized it too early (Well, not a shame for the family, but for Yale). Other prestigious schools (Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, every Ivy, etc.), probably offered all four of them better financial aid, seeing as the family has now announced to the world they’re looking for schools that will offer them cheaper education.