<p>In the UK, students can apply to Cambridge, or Oxford, but not both. What do you think of a policy whereby students in the US can only apply to two of the Ivy League universities or something like that?</p>
<p>Unenforceable. The schools themselves would never limit themselves and you’d have applicants sue against that. Fantasy proposition.</p>
<p>Well. It will never happen, but applicants can’t sue against that if Harvard and Yale enter an agreement together to this effect.</p>
<p>It’s also very enforceable in that the Common App can just prevent one from joining both. </p>
<p>It will never happen, of course, because the schools want to be selective.</p>
<p>Just putting it out there - if one can only apply to two Ivies, each college would have a higher yield rate, not have as many applications to get through, and would have more committed applicants.</p>
<p>The only way it could happen, is if this came to pass: [Imagining</a> a Harvard-Yale Merger - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/crimson-bulldog/]Imagining”>Imagining a Harvard-Yale Merger - The New York Times)</p>