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A note from someone attending at Ivy League school:
The OP has some fabulous acceptances, and any Ivy League "trend" he might be noticing I can assure you has more to do with his personality and particular quirks of the application pool and his interview day than anything else. Admissions committees don't all think the same way, and different schools can have opposite opinions about the same candidate for completely valid reasons.
That being said, I have noticed that interviewers and AdComs seem to like Ivy League applicants. I think this is because they have seen many people from schools like Yale and Harvard that impress them on paper, in person, and during their time at their schools. However, this doesn't mean that: A) Someone from a less brand-name institution is at a disadvantage simply because his or her school is not well known or that B) All Ivy League applicants have a leg up on other applicants. Go through mdapplicants.com and you'll find many Ivy undergrads with decent resumes who don't do nearly as well as they seem to expect from their profiles.
The OP has some fabulous acceptances, and any Ivy League "trend" he might be noticing I can assure you has more to do with his personality and particular quirks of the application pool and his interview day than anything else. Admissions committees don't all think the same way, and different schools can have opposite opinions about the same candidate for completely valid reasons.
That being said, I have noticed that interviewers and AdComs seem to like Ivy League applicants. I think this is because they have seen many people from schools like Yale and Harvard that impress them on paper, in person, and during their time at their schools. However, this doesn't mean that: A) Someone from a less brand-name institution is at a disadvantage simply because his or her school is not well known or that B) All Ivy League applicants have a leg up on other applicants. Go through mdapplicants.com and you'll find many Ivy undergrads with decent resumes who don't do nearly as well as they seem to expect from their profiles.