<p>I thought this article was pretty interesting. Quadruplets were all admitted EA to Yale in the same year. Of course the URM status helps, especially since they already had the top grades/test scores.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/education/19yale.html?_r=1&th&emc=th[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/education/19yale.html?_r=1&th&emc=th</a></p>
<p>already been posted…</p>
<p>Hasn’t already been posted in this forum, has it? Lots of parents don’t go to the other forums.</p>
<p>Interesting. I hadn’t seen it before.</p>
<p>The thought of having to send quadruplets to college is formidable – from a financial point of view. But at least Yale has a good financial aid policy, and all of the four are applying to other schools as well.</p>
<p>Thanks smallcolleges :)Great article - I really enjoyed it - I appreciate you posting it on the parent’s forum, as said above, I almost never go to the other forums. All 4 seem exceptionally bright, involved, and socially conscious - hope they get the aid they need to attend their dream school.</p>
<p>I saw them on TV the other day, enjoyed reading more about them. With only 1 parent working and 4 in college, they should get a good FA package, I’m sure someone will update, especially if they all end up at Yale.</p>
<p>Great article. Very interesting essay choices-- loved the obliques and nonlinear thinking one!</p>
<p>Nice family, good kids - well done, I say!! Thanks for posting this!</p>
<p>I like the essay choices, too. I want to read “I am not going to stop you…”</p>
<p>Berkeley admitted a set of triplets a few years ago that made the papers in CA. It was an interesting story.</p>
<p>My friend is friends with all of them</p>
<p>And I was impressed by the twins from Long Island who were both accepted ED to Cornell this week!</p>
<p>There are also quadruplets in the MIT Class of 2012.</p>
<p>They have nice credentials, but do you suppose all of them would have been accepted as unrelated singletons from Danbury High (not exactly a Yale feeder school)? I think not. It was an irresistible public relations move for Yale. I’m happy for any student gaining acceptance to a number one choice, but I expect there are some deferrals and rejectees gnashing their teeth over this one.</p>
<p>Are applications sorted out by last name and/or high school? How did Yale manage to pick the four out from all the applications and determine that they were quadruplets?</p>
<p>I personally did not apply to yale early action and i’m sure these quadruplets are amazing people who deserve to go to great schools like yale but i couldn’t help feeling like this was a publicity stunt on yale’s part. That made me a little upset. WHat are the chances that 4 kids from an app pile of more than 5000 were accepted from the same family and from the same school, especially as you put it, a school that isn’t a “ivy feeder?” It raised questions in my mind about how yale evaluates its applications.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s a publicity stunt. As far as I can tell, these kids have average qualifications compared to the rest of the applicants (which means they are great students with great academic records, compared to all high school students) but they’re African-American. All top schools are falling all over themselves to admit high-achieving African-Americans.</p>
<p>Someone in one of the other threads said the kids would have had a tougher time being admitted if their last name was Chen, Kim or Patel. That is surely correct.</p>
<p>I guess a school like Yale wouldn’t want to cause a family problem by choosing to accept 2 of the 4 (or whatever). I imagine the attitude was…accept them all or accept none.</p>
<p>I imagine it wasn’t hard for Yale to determine that they were quads. From the same school, same birthdates, and likely their essays mentioned it.</p>
<p>How about</p>
<p>Naratil, McDermott, Andromahi and Trivellas? Those where the twins named in the other article on the Yale forum.</p>
<p>Shrinkrap, I don’t say that Yale never accepts twins or triplets. I do say that from the qualifications listed in the article, these particular multiples don’t seem to have extraordinary qualifications compared to other Yale EA applicants, the vast majority of whom were deferred or rejected. </p>
<p>Most of the applicants accepted EA at Yale this year appear to either have extraordinary academic qualifications, or a hook such as being an athlete or being a URM. These kids are URMs, and it seems to me that’s why they were accepted. I don’t see a problem with their acceptance. They seem like wonderful kids who will do well wherever they decide to go, and Yale is right to promote ethnic diversity.</p>