<p>BU.. my friend with a 2230 and 3.65 unweighted got waitlisted..
my other friend with a 1770 and 3.3 unweighted got accepted.. </p>
<p>GRINNELL COLLEGE! :( i got waitlisted. but accepted to claremont mckenna.</p>
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I'm sure not EVERYONE is bitter, but come on - Swarthmore, U Chicago, and Johns Hopkins? Those people are so full of crap.</p>
<p>I hope you guys are correct about JHU. I couldn't believe I got waitlisted! I have good scores, grades, tough courseload, research, and lots of ECs related to my major.</p>
<p>Ehh...I wasn't going to go anyhow. They give very little merit aid (and I don't qualify for fin aid).</p>
<p>My local community college.</p>
<p>JOHN HOPKINS, ftw. I even think there is another thread in this forum labeled that!</p>
<p>Northeastern does not have it.
A lot of people on the Northeastern board think this because their stats are on-par with NEU and they were waitlisted or rejected, but there are a lot of people with higher-than-usual (for NEU) who were accepted, without huge demonstrated interest. I was one of them.</p>
<p>I don't mean that in a show-offy way, all I'm saying is, applications have gotten tougher this year.</p>
<p>^ Unless it's "too" high. Obviously it's not a big deal since likely most people with 2200's and 3.9's were accepted, but if you had a 4.0 and 2400...then you are bordering on setting off the syndrome at Northeastern. Remember that Northeastern is on par with things like Kansas State University and the Catholic University of America.</p>
<p>can someone tell me how this happened.</p>
<p>my best friend just got waitlisted to swarthmore.
Valedictorian rank 1 out of 618
ACT 36
SAT (NOT SUPERSCORED) 2400</p>
<p>captain of tennis, involved in lots of clubs....i just dont get it at all.</p>
<p>Tufts syndrome for maximizing expected yield. If JHU exhibited it, our RD yield would be greater than 20%, but it isn't. Also, for every person with supposedly "high" stats who was waitlisted or rejected, there was at least one who was accepted. You can make blanket claims about JHU based on this board and people you know, but you'd be wrong. Don't be bitter you didn't get in, just suck it up. Hopkins just didn't want you or is preparing itself to have a strong waitlist in the case of any summer melt.</p>
<p>I think JHU recently acquired Tufts syndrome so you can't generalize based on previous yield rates. "Just didn't want you" is so vague.</p>
<p>It may be that GW is employing only selective yield-protection. My D applied there and was accepted with SATs well above their median, and the other schools to which she applied (they ask) clearly defined GW as her safety. But she applied to a specific program and school for a specific reason, with specific goals that would make GW a good fit. She also put a decent amount of effort into applying to their Honors program. I think that despite considering the school a safety, the rest of her app indicated that she would seriously consider attending if admitted, which indeed she might.</p>
<p>UChicago definitely does not have it. You can't be overqualified at a top-tier school.</p>
<p>"Overqualified" refers to admissions, not the quality of education of the school. You can be overqualified to a school even though the school is hard as hell. The converse is also true: hard to get in, easy to get out.</p>
<p>Very true, just not with UC.</p>
<p>LOL! With a 40% admit, Chicago would be among the last places I expect Tufts Syndrome.</p>
<p>This year, Chicago's admission rate was ~28%.</p>
<p>I don't think Chicago cares about yield in the same way as others may. If they were so concerned with rankings, they wouldn't ask people to write ridiculous essays about giant mustard and cartesian coordinates.</p>
<p>Is Johns Hopkins one of them?</p>
<p>Not at BU, as some earlier people are saying. 2280 SAT here 4.0 GPA, and I got accepted.</p>
<p>None of the top ten schools in the country are going to have Tufts syndrome, don't kid yourselves. UChicago is not going to reject or waitlist someone with good scores because they suspect they might get into an Ivy (everyone knows how haphazard their admissions can be sometimes), they have plenty of people attend with perfect SAT scores every year.</p>