From sharing a room to living thousands of miles apart, four sets of Convent of the Sacred Heart senior siblings will enter on a new stage in their relationships while attending separate colleges this fall.
Sacred Heart senior Olivia Thurman and her twin, Rye Neck High School senior Anabel, are preparing to spend the next four years apart. Olivia will study at Harvard University while Anabel will continue her education at Duke University.
Although Olivia appreciates her close relationship with Anabel, she believes that having a twin generated a hectic college application season. 
“It definitely made the college process a lot more stressful because my family was dealing with two kids applying to college at the same time with no experience beforehand,” Olivia said. “We spent pretty much our entire Christmas break sitting at the dining room table writing supplements.”
Despite the fact that they will be attending different colleges, Olivia has already experienced what life is like without her twin by choosing to attend Sacred Heart for her junior and senior years of high school.
“By switching schools without her, I got an idea of what it’s like having friends who aren’t also friends with my twin, but it’s definitely going to be different being in a place where people just know me and not my sister,” Olivia said. “When you’re a twin people always associate the two of you together so it’s going to be a little weird having a life completely independent of Anabel.”
Like Olivia and Anabel, senior Sydney Goldman and her twin brother Tristan have already experienced attending different schools. Tristan is currently a senior at Archbishop Stepinac High School.
“We’ve always gone to school together up until tenth grade, but we didn’t mind it because while we had a lot of similar friends, we were still able to keep our own personal lives,” Sydney said. “Despite our differences, it’s definitely going to be weird not coming home to him everyday, but we’ve aways had pretty independent lives, so I know we are ready.”
Sydney noted that her mom and her older sister helped alleviate the stress of senior fall and aided her and Tristan during the application process.
Sydney also expected that she and Tristan would have separate college plans. In the fall, Tristan will attend Marquette University while Sydney will study at St. Joseph’s University or the University of Arizona.
“We of course applied to a few similar schools, but because we were both aiming for different things, we knew the chance of us ending up in the same school would be slim to none,” Sydney said. “I feel like when people think of twins they assume they’re together 24/7 and have one life, but for Tristan and I that wasn’t the case. Aside from being in the same school, we had always separated ourselves from each other as much as we could have. I am excited about a new chapter in our life that is completely our own.”
Seniors Ana and Nicole Schonander attend Sacred Heart while their triplet, Lars, attends