<p>Hello parents - I am a newcomer to CC and want to know if there has been a discussion about strategies for twins and multiples applying to schools. Have kids had better luck (getting in, financial aid, etc) with the same school or separate schools? Any pattern to the experience?
Thx.</p>
<p>There have been some posts on similar topics. Posts often come up in the late winter and spring by students who want to know how to factor their twin in when choosing a college. You can run a search on the top of the page to find related threads.</p>
<p>Instead of focusing on whether they are more likely to be accepted to schools as a pair, I suggest you focus on what each student wants out of college in terms of education and overall atmosphere. If they are looking at the same schools, then that’s great, but they likely have some different interests and strengths that need to be addressed in order to find each of them the best college possible.</p>
<p>My current college roommate is a twin. They applied to some of the same schools but also some different ones. I think they got into a couple of schools in common, but it was not universal. They ended up at colleges about three hours by plane from one another, but they keep in close contact.</p>
<p>I’m the parent of twin sophomores. From our perspective, there was one and only one issue: Do they want to go the same school or not? My boys got along great until senior year, when then began to get on each others nerves bit. One was militant in that he would not go to the same school as his twin, and we certainly respected his choice. He wanted to be knownn for who he was, not known as a twin. They ended up being admitted to the same schools (GPA and ACTs were identical), and the militant one told the other, you chose one, and I’ll choose another. </p>
<p>It’s worked out great. Both have flourished in that they have thrived on being treated as individuals, rather than as twins. They get along splendidly when home on breaks. All twins, of course, are different, so this is not a forumla that works for all twins.</p>
<p>The question of whether they want to be together, though, seems to me far more important than strategies of getting in.</p>
<p>My volunteer exp with admissions is that twins are usually very close in qualifications, so if one gets in the other gets in. I guess if their interests and qualifications were very different they wouldn’t be applying to the same schools anyway? A few years ago I heard about a mom who had quadruplets; three went to Brown and one to Columbia!</p>
<p>I am also a parent of twins in different schools. One school that offers great aid to families with twins is George Washington University. In general, if you qualify for financial aid, having twins puts you in a good place, as your EFC will be cut in half. My kids only applied to two of the same schools and both were accepted; however, they were safeties for both.</p>
<p>my boyfriend and his brother are twins and they went to the same school. They lived in seperate dorms freshman year however soph, junior, and senior year they rented an off campus apartment and lived together.</p>
<p>My roommate in college was dating a guy who also had a twin brother at the same school.</p>
<p>I also knew people who were twins that went to seperate schools. I think it just depends on what they want to go for and if the school is a good fit for one or both of them.</p>