Ohio Quadruplets Admissions

[Anonymous]

Personally, I love this story more than the 2017 version of the one student who gets into all 8 Ivies. This is some family commitment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/accepted-8-times-over-ohio-quadruplets-earn-spots-at-yale-harvard/2017/04/04/6b52f60c-1938-11e7-855e-4824bbb5d748_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_accepted-710a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.8e556efaee2b

Well done to these boys and their family.

[Anonymous]

Both are great stories. Good job, boys!

[Anonymous]

One of the quads (Nick, I believe) has participated in various College Confidential forums for the last couple of years. He seems like a delightful guy--smart and funny. He and his brothers are favorite over there.

[Anonymous]

This is a great story, but how did four students (related or not) from the same high school in Ohio get offers from both Harvard and Yale? Don't H & Y limit the number of offers to individual schools, especially those in the middle of Ohio?

[Anonymous]

Nigel and Aaron look like they could be identical twins. Zach and Nick also look like they could be identical twins.

I know that they are quads but are they all fraternal twins or is there one or two sets of identical twins among them?

What an amazing accomplishment for them all to get into the top schools like that. I wonder if they'll all go to the same school or choose different schools based on their majors.

[Anonymous]

So great to see a story. They have been writing for advice and telling their story on the College Admissions forum on College Confidential and sound like amazing guys. So happy for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nigel and Aaron look like they could be identical twins. Zach and Nick also look like they could be identical twins.

I know that they are quads but are they all fraternal twins or is there one or two sets of identical twins among them?

What an amazing accomplishment for them all to get into the top schools like that. I wonder if they'll all go to the same school or choose different schools based on their majors.

Quads can happen in a number of different ways, including:

--4 separate eggs (fraternal quads, same genetic relationship as any siblings)

--3 eggs, one splits into 2, effectively creating one identical set of "twins" and two singletons

--2 eggs, each splitting into 2 (2 sets of identical twins--this would be incredibly rare I think)

--2 eggs, one splitting into 2 and then one of those splitting again (1 set of identical triplets and one singleton)

--1 egg, splits in 2, then each splits again (identical quads)

Even before fertility treatments (I have no idea if such treatments were involved in the conception of these children), fraternal multiples of any kind (twin/triplet/etc) are much more common than identical twins. So, statistically speaking, it is more likely that they are all fraternal than that any of them are identical. And, the reports I've read are that they are, in fact, fraternal quads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nigel and Aaron look like they could be identical twins. Zach and Nick also look like they could be identical twins.

I know that they are quads but are they all fraternal twins or is there one or two sets of identical twins among them?

What an amazing accomplishment for them all to get into the top schools like that. I wonder if they'll all go to the same school or choose different schools based on their majors.

Quads can happen in a number of different ways, including:

--4 separate eggs (fraternal quads, same genetic relationship as any siblings)

--3 eggs, one splits into 2, effectively creating one identical set of "twins" and two singletons

--2 eggs, each splitting into 2 (2 sets of identical twins--this would be incredibly rare I think)

--2 eggs, one splitting into 2 and then one of those splitting again (1 set of identical triplets and one singleton)

--1 egg, splits in 2, then each splits again (identical quads)

Even before fertility treatments (I have no idea if such treatments were involved in the conception of these children), fraternal multiples of any kind (twin/triplet/etc) are much more common than identical twins. So, statistically speaking, it is more likely that they are all fraternal than that any of them are identical. And, the reports I've read are that they are, in fact, fraternal quads.

Sorry, need to clarify my statement: Twins of any kind are more common than triplets. What I mean is that it is much more common for any set of multiples to arise from multiple eggs than it is for a single egg to split.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both are great stories. Good job, boys!

+1. I'm OP of the other thread. Great job to these four--their parents must be so proud!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a great story, but how did four students (related or not) from the same high school in Ohio get offers from both Harvard and Yale? Don't H & Y limit the number of offers to individual schools, especially those in the middle of Ohio?

No one will take this on, they will ignore the elephant in the room. So typical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nigel and Aaron look like they could be identical twins. Zach and Nick also look like they could be identical twins.

I know that they are quads but are they all fraternal twins or is there one or two sets of identical twins among them?

What an amazing accomplishment for them all to get into the top schools like that. I wonder if they'll all go to the same school or choose different schools based on their majors.

The WashPo article says they are all fraternal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a great story, but how did four students (related or not) from the same high school in Ohio get offers from both Harvard and Yale? Don't H & Y limit the number of offers to individual schools, especially those in the middle of Ohio?

No one will take this on, they will ignore the elephant in the room. So typical.

Sorry, I don't work in Yale admissions so I don't have any f-ing clue, same as 99.9999% of DCUM posters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a great story, but how did four students (related or not) from the same high school in Ohio get offers from both Harvard and Yale? Don't H & Y limit the number of offers to individual schools, especially those in the middle of Ohio?

No one will take this on, they will ignore the elephant in the room. So typical.

I am guessing that for every rule there is a rare exception. These guys are the rare exception. I doubt that there will be another set of high achieving quads who will all qualify for admittance into those schools. Ever again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a great story, but how did four students (related or not) from the same high school in Ohio get offers from both Harvard and Yale? Don't H & Y limit the number of offers to individual schools, especially those in the middle of Ohio?

No one will take this on, they will ignore the elephant in the room. So typical.

Sorry, I don't work in Yale admissions so I don't have any f-ing clue, same as 99.9999% of DCUM posters.

Of course they don't in any kind of binding/we can't do it even if we want to kind of way. Imagine some year that the top 3 Intel finishers were all from some school in Ohio. Do you really think Harvard wouldn't take them all? Come on.

[Anonymous]

I actually think H & Y would never split there offers 3 yes & 1 no and probably wouldn't do 2 & 2... So if they wanted at least 2 of them, I bet they'd admit all 4 of them.