This is nice news for this girl. She deserves all the praise she's getting and it's nice to have so many options. In the end she can only choose to attend one college, and once she enrolls it won't matter too much -- she'll move on to the usual stresses and challenges of being a college freshman. I say let her have her 15 minutes of fame.

If I were one of her classmates if be pissed that she applied to all those schools knowing full well she'd probably get in. While I don't believe colleges have exact quotas for certain high schools, she may very we'll have taken a spot that would have otherwise gone to another TJ student who really wants to go to that school.

Applying to all 8 Iviies means that the parents aren't concerned about fit or major or experience or anything else, except the brand name. They're looking for whatever brand name they can get. It's social climbing and grasping and pushy. At least the kid has a choice, now. Good for her

Anonymous wrote:My husband (white, and his family has lived in the US for at least 2 generations back) applied to all the ivies and his in-state uni. His parents said they would only pay for him to go to an in-state uni, or an ivy. There are many reasons, that being an example of one, why a student would apply to all of the ivies. Btw, those kids in the articles sound amazing and I bet worked their tails off to get in a position to receive those acceptances (unlike DH who basically coasted there b/c of ivy-educated parents and his private school).

Passive aggressive.

My husband (white, and his family has lived in the US for at least 2 generations back) applied to all the ivies and his in-state uni. His parents said they would only pay for him to go to an in-state uni, or an ivy. There are many reasons, that being an example of one, why a student would apply to all of the ivies. Btw, those kids in the articles sound amazing and I bet worked their tails off to get in a position to receive those acceptances (unlike DH who basically coasted there b/c of ivy-educated parents and his private school).

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Anonymous wrote:It makes sense for a kid to apply to MIT, Cal Tech, Carnegie Mellon, and Georgia Tech. Or Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and Swarthmore. Or maybe Brown, Oberlin, and Reed. These groups of schools all have qualities that would attract similar students.

But the eight Ivies plus MIT and Stanford are not interchangeable. A kid for whom UPenn would be a good match would probably be very unhappy at Dartmouth and vice versa. I would tell my own child to figure out what he wanted in a school before sending out applications to any and all. What would happen if the child only got into the one Ivy that would not at all suit that child? Would the student just go to any Ivy just because it's an Ivy?

Really, who cares? In the end, the kid will only enroll at one school. Most kids will flourish at a wide range of schools.

The point is that applying to all shows a lack of research into what kind of school would be best for a particular child. What majors is a child interested in? Does the child like a big school or a small one? City, suburb, or rural area? I'd make sure my child thought about the answers to these and a lot of other questions before applying and not wait until the crunch is on in April to make a hurried decision before 1 May.

+1. Well said.

It's not well said-it's bs. I applied to very different colleges because I wasn't sure what I wanted when I started the process. Then over the next 8 months I got to visit more schools and think more about what I wanted so that by the time acceptances came in I had a better idea. These are kids-giving them a little extra time to figure things out is not a bad thing. Hell-I even used that approach for graduate school (on a much smaller scale of course). Until I really had a chance to do in depth visits with the departments and faculty I'd be working with I didn't know the best fit. Somehow I ended up at schools that worked well for me even though they ,ay not have been my first choice when I was applying.

I wouldencourage my kids to apply to a variety of schools if they wanted more time to explore their options.

Successful immigrant groups will end up like the Jews -- the subject of jealousy and hatred.

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Anonymous wrote:It makes sense for a kid to apply to MIT, Cal Tech, Carnegie Mellon, and Georgia Tech. Or Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and Swarthmore. Or maybe Brown, Oberlin, and Reed. These groups of schools all have qualities that would attract similar students.

But the eight Ivies plus MIT and Stanford are not interchangeable. A kid for whom UPenn would be a good match would probably be very unhappy at Dartmouth and vice versa. I would tell my own child to figure out what he wanted in a school before sending out applications to any and all. What would happen if the child only got into the one Ivy that would not at all suit that child? Would the student just go to any Ivy just because it's an Ivy?

Really, who cares? In the end, the kid will only enroll at one school. Most kids will flourish at a wide range of schools.

The point is that applying to all shows a lack of research into what kind of school would be best for a particular child. What majors is a child interested in? Does the child like a big school or a small one? City, suburb, or rural area? I'd make sure my child thought about the answers to these and a lot of other questions before applying and not wait until the crunch is on in April to make a hurried decision before 1 May.

+1. Well said.

So, you are worried they will wind up at the wrong Ivy and somehow their life will go astray?

I don't know. This piece leads to some kind of bizarre hypotheses:
http://money.cnn.com/interactive/pf/college/ivy-league-schools/index.html?iid=HP_River

You tell me what these schools are looking for. "Look, this year we have a pair of Serbo-Croatian siamese twins who are also adopted. And a juggler. We have to have a juggler."

Anonymous wrote:But why apply to every single elite school?

Because they can. Those children owe no one any explanation. Until there is a law forbidding submission to all the Ivys, they can do what they want. Guaranteed they are not somewhere whining and moping because DCUM is upset they applied to all the Ivy schools. I applaud them.

Anonymous wrote:But why apply to every single elite school?

because she can great for her. and btw she also created an app