<p>can I be your guys’ adopted triplet??? please please please! i’m 100 pts stupider than both of you!! :D:D:D and i applied to 14 schools!!</p>
<p>None of you are ever allowed to whine about low acceptance rates, ever.</p>
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SAME. you know how princeton’s supplement option 4 asks you to pick a quote and write an essay about it? I was too lazy to write another essay so I just searched for an hour for a quote that would fit my yale supplement essay…so lazy :p</p>
<p>I hate to break it to you, but nobody cares about low acceptance rates. And before you correct me and say “I do,” I mean nobody in the hyperbolic sense.</p>
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<p>A LOT of people do, especially when they are rejected or waitlisted from schools they want to attend.</p>
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<p>actually no…
if each student applies to more schools, it just means that the school’s yield decreases
(ie, top students apply to all the ivies, but they will most likely pick harvard over, say, dartmouth) which means that the schools are forced to accept MORE students in order to make sure they yield the target class size in the end</p>
<p>hey hey hey now, i whittled it down from 40 to 21 to 14 schools. that is probably my biggest accomplishment.</p>
<p>initial list: harvard, princeton, yale, stanford, columbia, cornell, duke, georgetown, dartmouth, vanderbilt, usc, johns hopkins, tufts, carnegie mellon, MIT, caltech, harvey mudd, brown, penn, berkeley, ucla, washu, notre dame, northwestern, rice, umich, uva, nyu, emory, uchicago, boston university, boston college, northeastern, ucsd, UT austin, gwu, georgia tech, purdue</p>
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which means they weren’t as qualified as the people who did get in. tough love! we’re allowed to apply to as many schools as we want to. considering how random admissions are, it would only be prudent to do so</p>
<p>Actually, people typically take solace in that only 9% of people are accepted. They don’t blame their rejection on the acceptance rate; they blame it on the competition (or AA). People don’t get upset that 91% of people get rejected; just that they’re in that 91%.</p>
<p>^It usually takes a few years for school’s to figure out how many students they need to accept due to the yield rate, and since the amount of applicants has increased exponentially this year, chances are that they won’t change how many students they accept to the perfect amount, so the acceptance rate will still be low.</p>
<p>@pigs OH MY GOD!
I was the opposite of you 
I had 7 and I stretched it to 12</p>
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instead of complaining, why dont you go with the flow and add some schools to your list, bud? we’re putting in the work. if you wanna stay competitive, do the same! I’m kidding of course. but seriously, if you think it’s unfair, why don’t you level the playing field by following suit</p>
<p>^I just don’t want schools to figure out how many schools I would be applying to and being like “Oh, he needs not worry, he’ll get in elsewhere”.</p>
<p>^I’ve been wondering… can they figure out how many schools you’re applying to?</p>
<p>Would you be interested in joining in on my conspiracy theory that Harvard colludes with the other Ivies so that it is the only acceptance offer its future students will get?</p>
<p>They communicate about applicants.</p>
<p>THEY DO NOT COMMUNICATE ABOUT APPLICANTS! eeeesh.</p>
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<p>i know! it’d be funny if we ended up at the same place! LOL. all of us yale hopefuls should just go to the same place. it could be mini-yale haha. we’re all qualified and seem to like the same things that is yale :D</p>
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<p>hahaha i just based my second essay off of one of the princeton prompts 
teehee</p>
<p>I’m really interested, christiansoldier. They do?</p>