Ivy day 2026

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC was WL at Princeton in EA. Unfortunately for DC, two athletes were admitted in EA from their school (kudos to them though). My guess is they won’t offer another slot.

Athletes are usually considered a different pool.

That's only swimmers and water polo players.

This is a good one!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:DC was WL at Princeton in EA. Unfortunately for DC, two athletes were admitted in EA from their school (kudos to them though). My guess is they won’t offer another slot.

Athletes are usually considered a different pool.

That's only swimmers and water polo players.

This is a good one!

Thanks! Tried to lighten things up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:THREE HOURS!!!! 😅

(I’m pretending to be totally chill with my kid)

Me too! Lucky my kid won’t be home until right before decisions because my acting is not so great…

Same. Left on a long walk

Somehow my kid's HS decided to schedule a mandatory event this evening. All students will be together in a room sharing good and bad news at 7pm. Probably cool for them and not so cool for parents waiting for phone calls.

Is this Blair?... lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:THREE HOURS!!!! 😅

(I’m pretending to be totally chill with my kid)

Me too! Lucky my kid won’t be home until right before decisions because my acting is not so great…

Same. Left on a long walk

Somehow my kid's HS decided to schedule a mandatory event this evening. All students will be together in a room sharing good and bad news at 7pm. Probably cool for them and not so cool for parents waiting for phone calls.

Is this Blair?... lol

Of course ... I would be surprised if they don't give seniors homeworks even after graduation.

[Anonymous]

This chat is already into several pages. Have to create a new post for Ivy results

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ivies still prioritize legacies?

The Ivies will always prioritize legacies. They are the ones that came up with the concept (in order to keep out jews and catholics). I have a lot of respect for JHU, MIT, Amherst, Pomona and other schools that have decided not to give consideration to legacies.

A pretty cool admissions criteria! Just for that exclusive concept I would go look elsewhere. You don’t have to be in an Ivy to succeed in life.

To defend them a little, there are a LOT of schools that once did not accept Jews and other groups, including women - it wasn't just an Ivy thing. And there are a lot of schools besides Ivies that consider legacy. It's about money more than exclusivity, but since most people marry homogenously and therefore breed kids that look like them and worship like them, the effect was exclusivity. In some ways, Ivies have compensated for past transgressions more than other groupings of schools through general financial aid and holistic admissions. That said, legacy priority is on the way out, as it should be.

I am a female child of a Jewish Yale graduate who then went to Yale myself. My dad was the first generation of Jews who were admitted in any numbers. He then was able to pass legacy to me for the first time. He was there when it was male only, but then by the next generation, I could go as a female. So now that a Jewish female can finally pass legacy status on down to my kids, I find is supremely ironic that now people want to get rid of legacy. It's not just females or Jews either. Yale was very diverse when I was there, so all my black and brown and LGBTQ classmates are now passing legacy status on down too.

Really makes me wonder who is opposing legacy status now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Out early!

Stanford ✅
Harvard ✅
Yale ❌
Penn✅
Columbia✅
Brown ❌
Dartmouth✅
Cornell❌

4.13 GPA, 1580, no hooks

Yale doesn't take fake trolls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Out early!

Stanford ✅
Harvard ✅
Yale ❌
Penn✅
Columbia✅
Brown ❌
Dartmouth✅
Cornell❌

4.13 GPA, 1580, no hooks

Nice trolling. Stanford is releasing tomorrow. And it is not an Ivy either. You forgot Princeton.

this dumb dumb thought Stanford was an Ivy!

[Anonymous]

Does matter what the results will be, I know we are going to celebrate tonight the end of a long and stressful process that took 6 months or so.
Please hug your kids and tell them you love them! This is more important than any ivy league result.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivies still prioritize legacies?

The Ivies will always prioritize legacies. They are the ones that came up with the concept (in order to keep out jews and catholics). I have a lot of respect for JHU, MIT, Amherst, Pomona and other schools that have decided not to give consideration to legacies.

A pretty cool admissions criteria! Just for that exclusive concept I would go look elsewhere. You don’t have to be in an Ivy to succeed in life.

To defend them a little, there are a LOT of schools that once did not accept Jews and other groups, including women - it wasn't just an Ivy thing. And there are a lot of schools besides Ivies that consider legacy. It's about money more than exclusivity, but since most people marry homogenously and therefore breed kids that look like them and worship like them, the effect was exclusivity. In some ways, Ivies have compensated for past transgressions more than other groupings of schools through general financial aid and holistic admissions. That said, legacy priority is on the way out, as it should be.

I am a female child of a Jewish Yale graduate who then went to Yale myself. My dad was the first generation of Jews who were admitted in any numbers. He then was able to pass legacy to me for the first time. He was there when it was male only, but then by the next generation, I could go as a female. So now that a Jewish female can finally pass legacy status on down to my kids, I find is supremely ironic that now people want to get rid of legacy. It's not just females or Jews either. Yale was very diverse when I was there, so all my black and brown and LGBTQ classmates are now passing legacy status on down too.

Really makes me wonder who is opposing legacy status now.

Exactly. In the 90s, when most current parents were in school, there was a lot of diversity, as affirmative action was in full effect. So there are plenty of minority legacy opportunities. So the minority people who whiine about legacies only benefitting white kids are a generation late. A minority legacy is the gold standard - barely need a pulse to get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivies still prioritize legacies?

The Ivies will always prioritize legacies. They are the ones that came up with the concept (in order to keep out jews and catholics). I have a lot of respect for JHU, MIT, Amherst, Pomona and other schools that have decided not to give consideration to legacies.

A pretty cool admissions criteria! Just for that exclusive concept I would go look elsewhere. You don’t have to be in an Ivy to succeed in life.

To defend them a little, there are a LOT of schools that once did not accept Jews and other groups, including women - it wasn't just an Ivy thing. And there are a lot of schools besides Ivies that consider legacy. It's about money more than exclusivity, but since most people marry homogenously and therefore breed kids that look like them and worship like them, the effect was exclusivity. In some ways, Ivies have compensated for past transgressions more than other groupings of schools through general financial aid and holistic admissions. That said, legacy priority is on the way out, as it should be.

I am a female child of a Jewish Yale graduate who then went to Yale myself. My dad was the first generation of Jews who were admitted in any numbers. He then was able to pass legacy to me for the first time. He was there when it was male only, but then by the next generation, I could go as a female. So now that a Jewish female can finally pass legacy status on down to my kids, I find is supremely ironic that now people want to get rid of legacy. It's not just females or Jews either. Yale was very diverse when I was there, so all my black and brown and LGBTQ classmates are now passing legacy status on down too.

Really makes me wonder who is opposing legacy status now.

I don't understand your premise, PP. Candidates should be judged as a unit of one: themselves. No one should be admitted based on other people's achievements. What your parents did should be not relevant.

I am a foreigner who is European white and Asian, and culturally Catholic. My kids were born here and are dual citizens. None of that matters. Plenty of people all over the world prefer a college admission system based on individual achievement and not family achievement. Surely that's a no-brainer!

I oppose giving preference to athletes as well, and development cases. I don't want people to bribe their way in, or get admitted because they can make the college sports team win, or their parents attended the school. This is... self-evident! Obvious!

Anyway. Back to Ivy Day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:THREE HOURS!!!! 😅

(I’m pretending to be totally chill with my kid)

Me too! Lucky my kid won’t be home until right before decisions because my acting is not so great…

Same. Left on a long walk

Somehow my kid's HS decided to schedule a mandatory event this evening. All students will be together in a room sharing good and bad news at 7pm. Probably cool for them and not so cool for parents waiting for phone calls.

My DS is in the Bahamas on a spring break trip with a couple hundred seniors from the NYC private schools . . . Lots of kids who are going to get this news while at Atlantis. I’d imagine that there’s going to be drama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:THREE HOURS!!!! 😅

(I’m pretending to be totally chill with my kid)

Me too! Lucky my kid won’t be home until right before decisions because my acting is not so great…

Same. Left on a long walk

Somehow my kid's HS decided to schedule a mandatory event this evening. All students will be together in a room sharing good and bad news at 7pm. Probably cool for them and not so cool for parents waiting for phone calls.

My DS is in the Bahamas on a spring break trip with a couple hundred seniors from the NYC private schools . . . Lots of kids who are going to get this news while at Atlantis. I’d imagine that there’s going to be drama.

Oh no, it’ll ruin their Bahamas trip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:THREE HOURS!!!! 😅

(I’m pretending to be totally chill with my kid)

Me too! Lucky my kid won’t be home until right before decisions because my acting is not so great…

Same. Left on a long walk

Somehow my kid's HS decided to schedule a mandatory event this evening. All students will be together in a room sharing good and bad news at 7pm. Probably cool for them and not so cool for parents waiting for phone calls.

My DS is in the Bahamas on a spring break trip with a couple hundred seniors from the NYC private schools . . . Lots of kids who are going to get this news while at Atlantis. I’d imagine that there’s going to be drama.

Jeez. I would lock myself in my hotel room if I was getting decisions back today. Would be awkward to open in public if it’s straight rejections…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivies still prioritize legacies?

The Ivies will always prioritize legacies. They are the ones that came up with the concept (in order to keep out jews and catholics). I have a lot of respect for JHU, MIT, Amherst, Pomona and other schools that have decided not to give consideration to legacies.

A pretty cool admissions criteria! Just for that exclusive concept I would go look elsewhere. You don’t have to be in an Ivy to succeed in life.

To defend them a little, there are a LOT of schools that once did not accept Jews and other groups, including women - it wasn't just an Ivy thing. And there are a lot of schools besides Ivies that consider legacy. It's about money more than exclusivity, but since most people marry homogenously and therefore breed kids that look like them and worship like them, the effect was exclusivity. In some ways, Ivies have compensated for past transgressions more than other groupings of schools through general financial aid and holistic admissions. That said, legacy priority is on the way out, as it should be.

I am a female child of a Jewish Yale graduate who then went to Yale myself. My dad was the first generation of Jews who were admitted in any numbers. He then was able to pass legacy to me for the first time. He was there when it was male only, but then by the next generation, I could go as a female. So now that a Jewish female can finally pass legacy status on down to my kids, I find is supremely ironic that now people want to get rid of legacy. It's not just females or Jews either. Yale was very diverse when I was there, so all my black and brown and LGBTQ classmates are now passing legacy status on down too.

Really makes me wonder who is opposing legacy status now.

Exactly. In the 90s, when most current parents were in school, there was a lot of diversity, as affirmative action was in full effect. So there are plenty of minority legacy opportunities. So the minority people who whiine about legacies only benefitting white kids are a generation late. A minority legacy is the gold standard - barely need a pulse to get in.

I also wonder if it's the unhooked whites who complain about legacy.