<p>Do you think it would affect my chances if my twin was also applying to Cornell? would it make my chances of getting in higher? Would it not affect me at all?</p>
<p>Never heard this question before. It would probably affect your chances just as much as a peer at your high school who were to also apply would.</p>
<p>Depends, if you applied to different colleges within the school (e.g. you applied to ILR and your twin applied to CAS) then, no. However, if you applied to the same college within the school (e.g. both of you applied to CALS) then you would be competing against each other for a spot. Good Luck to both of you :D</p>
<p>i tend to see twins either both get accepted or both get rejected… more toward both getting accepted, but that’s just several random instances ive seen and im positive that they were coincidences.</p>
<p>There were twins at my high school who pretty much had identical college results, except for Macaulay Honors. Both were waitlisted at Cornell. But of course, each case is different. What go4cornell said seems to make sense.</p>
<p>I know two twins who were accepted to Cornell. I’m not sure if it hurt/helped their chances though. I’m guessing it made it slightly harder since they applied to the same college.</p>
<p>i think that being a twin potentially affects your application chances- it think it is possibly advantageous…</p>
<p>there seem to be quite a number of twins at cornell - infact there happens to be a twin club! I don’t think its official yet but they are working toward that. I don’t kno if it just seems like there are a lot of twins or if there actually are – (I am a twin myself) but at the very least there does seem to be people with a lot of twin connections. for example if not already a twin themselves, i have met people whose mom or dad is a twin or who has twin siblings or who’s best friends at home are twins. I find it quite remarkable. and it does seem to me that even if there is not a significant number of twins themselves, there is a significant number of twin connection occurrences among the undergraduate student body at cornell.</p>
<p>^ I don’t know how informative the perception by a twin that twins seem numerous at Cornell is in indicating twinhood’s effect on admissions.</p>
<p>i was just saying that it seems like there might be a significantly high ratio of twin students at cornell in comparison to other undergraduate student bodies. ~i was aiming to provide some thoughts that give a sense of cornell’s take on twins. sorry if it was confusing.</p>
<p>Next twin club meeting I could ask the twins who’s twin does not attend cornell if their twin had applied & the consequences of that and get back to you on what i find if youd like</p>
<p>(this was my case: I applied ED and got in. My identical twin applied regular & was accepted. i wrote my one essay about how having a twin affected my life & perspective. She wrote her essay about how she wanted to go to a separate school from me for the experience of separation but also really liked cornell – idk exactly what her essay was saying-- – she was more for going to diff schools & said she applied just to see if she could get in. but she lastminutely decided to attend cornell.)</p>
<p>I would say a twin applying can be good or bad. Think of it this way, any college probably wants to accept or reject or waitlist BOTH twins to prevent familial issues and angry parents.</p>
<p>So, if one twin is borderline and the other would normally get accepted, then the lagging twin’s chances would probably increase and both would probably be accepted.</p>
<p>In another case, if one twin is borderline and the other would not normally get accepted, then both would probably be rejected or waitlisted.</p>
<p>Thus, I think if you’re twin is as strong or stronger than you, it’d be beneficial. If he’s weaker, probably not beneficial.</p>
<p>it depends are you girls, guys, girl/guy?</p>
<p>Twins from my school both got into Cornell. They also both got into Dartmouth and Rice. There was also a selective (20% accepted) summer program they both got into and participated in. Now, they both attend Dartmouth. It guess it would seem that twins tend to follow the same paths and get the same responses each. Bear in mind that they both got rejected from all other Ivies plus MIT and Stanford.</p>
<p>yeah i am a boy, shes a girl. Im not applying for a while tho I’m a sophmore in high school (lol) but my mom went to cornell too so I’m already looking at it.</p>
<p>hm well no idea then two girls always have a shot not so much two guys and guy/girl not sure</p>
<p>There are a lot more twins in general because more parents had fertility treatment compared to previous generation. My daughter’s small school of 100 seniors had 3 sets of twins.</p>
<p>“hm well no idea then two girls always have a shot not so much two guys and guy/girl not sure”</p>
<p>what’s your reasoning for this? o_O</p>
<p>^I can guarantee there is no basis for that post</p>
<p>My class of 250 has 7 sets of twins (I am also a twin)–I’ve been told thats a record for most twins in a high school! I actually have a double legacy at Cornell, and both my brother and I are within one of eah other in terms of class rank (I’m above). So, hopefully that is an advantage.
Nice thread btw.</p>
<p>They’ll compare your apps word for word, if ANYTHING is remotely similar between the two, both of you will be instantly REJECTED.</p>
<p>ananya77041— That is NOT true at all. When my sons applied they had the exact same APs, scores were similar, ECs exactly the same -with different leadership positions, the same personal interests Come to think of it they really could have sent in one application indicating where the differences were because that is how similar they were. </p>
<p>The year my sons got accepted there were 12 students from there very small school that were also accepted. My sons and 6 others applied to the same college within Cornell.
I dont have a crystal ball but I would say with similar high stats (gpa and scores) assuming you both have more than just numbers than you will probably both get accepted.</p>